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Benjamin  Thorpe

The cost of cash - for business, the environment and society.

Nothing in life is free – certainly not money. You can argue that all forms of payment have a cost associated with them in one way or another but unlike many of the new payment propositions out there,...

16 Feb 2016
Benjamin  Thorpe

ICCOS Asia and Newton’s 3rd Law of Thermodynamics

Presenting recently at the ICCOS Asia conference in Malaysia, I was asked to talk about the changes that retail cash automation is having on other stakeholders in the cash cycle: the banks, the ATM de...

17 Nov 2015
Benjamin  Thorpe

Optimising cash for retailers with smart safes

Many retailers face the same challenges when it comes to managing cash. Expensive staff time is spent processing cash and correcting errors, only for the cash to be stored on-site before it can be dep...

05 Nov 2015
Benjamin  Thorpe

In banking, as in rugby, there’s no room for human error

Congratulations to New Zealand on their Rugby World Cup win at the weekend. The Rugby World Cup has provided numerous iconic images but the vision of South African referee Craig Joubert sprinting from...

30 Oct 2015
Benjamin  Thorpe

Why Monitor an Attended Device?

Everywhere you look these days someone, somewhere, is monitoring something; CCTV on the streets, speed cameras on roads, entry and exit cameras in car parks, even your location via your Smartphone App...

28 Oct 2015
Benjamin  Thorpe

A cash wager - what 17th century French philosophy can tell us about cash today

​If I remember one thing from university it is Pascal’s Wager. Blaise Pascal was a seventeenth century French philosopher, mathematician & writer. One of Pascal’s most famous works was the Pensé

28 Oct 2015

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