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Ron Delnevo

Chair

UK Cash Supply Alliance

Member since

18 Jan 2018

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Leatherhead

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Improving Cash Access in the UK

Cash access is a huge issue in the UK today. To help address the issue, UK Finance established the Community Cash Access Pilot Scheme, to encourage innovative companies to provide new solutions for cash access. Now the Pilot Scheme Board has announced the innovations it has decided to support. A good example of the solutions selected is Sonect, the...

24 September 2020 /startups /inclusion Fintech

US coin shortage a DISASTER for cash!

Cock up - or a conspiracy? Whichever it is, this shortage of coins is a disaster for cash. Many retailers are looking for excuses to limit cash use and this shortage is a gift to them as they pursue their “cashless” ambitions. Cash is an essential item on the Payment Choice menu. The right to use cash is even more fundamental to US democracy than t...

04 July 2020 /payments /inclusion Financial Supply Chain

Give Cash a Great Big Hug!

My love affair with cash started with my parents. I was born in the 1950s, entering the world just as the UK was finally leaving World War 2 rationing behind. In those far off days, there was plenty of poverty – but little debt. The financial system really didn’t allow the general public to have significant debt. Personal loans from a bank or build...

04 June 2020 /payments /inclusion Financial Inclusion

Cash: The Comeback-Kid?

There is much speculation about the extent of the comeback cash will make after the latest pandemic is behind us. To be fair, cash has had a bit of a tough ride. Lockdowns impacting more than half the worlds population have lured people into the clutches of internet shopping - and, as we all know, paying by cash on the internet is a bit tricky! On...

04 June 2020 /payments /inclusion The future of Payments in Europe

ALL In-Person Payments CAN Be Equally Safe During The Coronavirus Pandemic

One of the aspects of the current Coronavirus Pandemic that makes my blood boil is the tendency of the advocates of particular payment methods to claim they are somehow safer for the public to use for in-person payments. Sometimes such claims are supported by "research" findings or even the words of a handy "academic", presumabl...

18 April 2020 /payments /covid-19 The Payments Business