Following the 2014 cash conference, the main theme of which was “The usage, costs and benefits of cash", for this year’s conference we would like to focus on the “War on Cash” and, in the process, discuss the question of whether cash has a future.
The “War on Cash” has gone from being a purely academic matter some years ago to a topic of general public debate. In the debate, cash, a topic with many facets which is, to some degree, highly emotionally charged, is coming under repeated criticism. Its detractors refer to it as inefficient, expensive and a tool for facilitating illicit transactions.