Subject: Merchants in the cash system

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Merchants in the cash system
As policy-makers seek to protect cash acceptance and increasingly look to retailers to facilitate access to cash, Martina Horakova argues that merchants need adequate cash services themselves – and that providing cash to the public should not come at their expense
  19 Aug 2026   |  Feature
Economics
Economics departments use multiple coding languages
More than half of central banks use five or more coding languages and tools
19 Aug 2026   |  Commentary
Fintech
US agencies propose crypto rules after Clarity Act stalls
SEC plans would exempt firms from some securities laws
19 Aug 2026   |  News
Europe
Europe’s main asset in digital race is its size, says Lagarde
ECB president says domestic barriers must be lifted so start-ups can drive innovation
19 Aug 2026   |  Speech
Payments
Syria adopts electronic payment system
Central bank says move will eventually aid country’s reintegration into global financial system
19 Aug 2026   |  Official Record
People
Brian Langrin takes helm at Bank of Jamaica
Former head of financial stability succeeds Richard Byles as governor
19 Aug 2026   |  News
Data
Bitcoin has become ‘more equity-like’ – San Francisco Fed study
Asset’s ‘financialisation’ has helped it enter same sphere as stocks, paper argues
19 Aug 2026   |  Research
Payments
A defining payment infrastructure: go-live across Cemac
BEAC and ProgressSoft reach a new milestone in modernising payments across the six Cemac member states
19 Aug 2026   |  Advertisement

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