The importance of maintaining and supporting the cash infrastructure has never seemed more important than in the wake of this week's catastrophic IT outage.

Regarding the attempted assassination of former US President Trump, it is easy to think—if a specific individual or group of people had needed to sign-off on a specific decision to leave that rooftop unprotected—that a different decision would have been made.

Strict reliance on digital payments can make societies less resilient, highlighted by recent outages in March that forced some businesses to close shop and hit McDonald's and Tesco, among others.

European Consumer Protection Ministers, as well as those in Germany, recently highlighted the need to safeguard access to cash to protect consumers and ensure a resilient retail payment system.

Legislators in Los Angeles (USA) are re-writing current city codes with the goal of improving public safety while simultaneously freeing up police to focus on important crime issues.