Cash Chapter
The Ligue's Cash Chapter has the objective of raising awareness of the importance of maintaining the critical infrastructure of cash as a reliable and resilient payment means. By providing opinions, research and fundamental insights to the industry, the Chapter strives for supporting the strategic adoption to emerging trends impacting the cash cycle management. It further aims at ensuring that Cash and its distribution are legally protected and promoted, and that Cash is available and accessible everywhere and anytime to Citizens, even in times of crisis. The Ligue`s Cash Chapter is therefore regularly engaging with legislators around the world and teaming up with fellow associations.
Updated July 2025 — The International Security Ligue welcomes the legislators’ intention to establish a legal framework for central bank currencies that seeks to create a level playing field.
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August 2025 — It will more than likely affect Independent ATM Operators and significantly impact access to cash levels across the European Economic Area.
Read the StatementConvenient, anonymous, trusted, tangible, ubiquitous—it’s easy to see why the habit of paying with cash persists. But risks to cash exist, which is one focus of Ligue reporting, alongside news about monetary policy, global research, and industry efforts to improve sustainability.
Independent researchers conducted a study on the comparative costs of cash and debit cards and learned cash is a cheaper form of payment in almost every country and every size transaction.
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Fraud is a significant and mounting problem for global economies made worse by non-cash methods of payment, according to “Fraud in cash and electronic payments: taxonomy, estimation and projections.”
READ THE STUDYHumorous — but with a serious message serious: Governments around the world need to take steps to protect and promote cash.
1. Pursuing convenience for some can leave behind others.
2. The resilience of cash makes it an important firewall against the increase in natural disasters and cyberattacks.
3. Electronic payment fraud is simple compared to fraud with cash.
