About
The International Currency Association (ICA) exists to create a coherent voice for the currency industry to help balance the future of payments and demonstrate that cash is a vital part of the payment landscape. Drawing from the IMTFI's accumulated expertise on monetary ecologies - from cash to digital – find the below white papers and related outputs for Cash Matters, an ICA movement.
International Currency Association
Recent Works (5)
2019 Interview with Dr. Ursula Dalinghaus
On August 1st, 2019, Cash Matters published the white paper Virtually Irreplaceable – Cash as Public Infrastructure by Dr. Ursula Dalinghaus, making a case for how and why cash must be understood as a public good.
Cash is not a crime
New study by IMTFI postdoctoral scholar finds efforts to curtail cash use hurts poor and does little to stop terrorism financing
Cash as a Public Good – the Expert View
Dr Dalinghaus, Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Ripon College, is also an affiliated scholar at the Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion (IMTFI), University of California at Irvine, which has made itself a name as one of the leading institutes when it comes to the role of money in people’s daily lives and practices, and to the best way to go about financial inclusion.
The Director of the IMTFI is Professor Bill Maurer, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Filene Research Institute, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He will also be one of the keynote speakers at the ICA’s Global Currency Forum 2020 in Barcelona.