There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial m...

Last week I explored how Henry VIII resorted to coin debasement as a way to raise revenues in order to fight his wars. This provided Henry ...

As they increasingly forsake cash, regular folks are making dozens of digital payments every month. What they don't realize is how this ...

The last time I wrote about settlement speed was back in 2017. In that article I published a chart of the history of U.S. securities settle...

I was disappointed to see that First Trust Bank, a commercial bank based in Northern Ireland, will stop issuing its own brand of banknotes....

Nations never experience year-over-year declines in cash in circulation. Sweden (which I wrote about here , here , and here ) is one of t...

Over on the message board we've been discussing the implications of central bank-issued digital currency, otherwise known as CBDC. O...

"The head of a fool on the neck of an ass." That's how Londoners described the strange silver coin pictured above, which ...