IMIA’s view on why it is pertinent to promote and maintain cash payments as reliable and viable and free consumer choice option and therefore advocating safeguarding and investing in cash infrastructure (for wide access and acceptability) as a public good. Cash is the only form of public money intuitively known, understood, utilised and, crucially, trusted by citizens. It provides the society with personal as well as public data safety and privacy, universal inclusiveness, and personal as well as national crisis-resilience. Read the brief.
