Cash & Payments Sustainability Forum
Bringing together the cash cycle for a greener future
The inaugural Cash & Payments Sustainability Forum, which takes place 14-16 November in Edinburgh, is the only event that brings together all the stakeholder in the cash cycle, and beyond, to work towards sustainability in the production, circulation and destruction of one of the world’s most enduring and widely used products.
It will share best practice, promote cooperation and address specific environmental challenges and solutions in the cash and payments arena.
Organised by Reconnaissance International, publishers of last year’s white paper “Cash: a Roadmap to Sustainability”, the event is styled as a forum to focus on practitioners and decision makers. It is about adding value so that everybody learns, thinks, networks and comes away better able to develop policy, assess performance and options, work with others and implement new ideas.
The Forum will be in five parts,
Setting the scene
Sustainability has created an industry with acronyms, abbreviations, terminology, metrics and accreditations for each and every part. We will run sessions to provide a common understanding, a base line, for where the sustainability ‘industry’ is relevant to what we do. As part of this we will consider the areas of challenge, complexity, confusion and risk.
We will also consider the role of the central bank, ISO14001, ESG reports, greenwashing, top down and/or bottom-up change.
Best practice
We know there are great examples of organisations, central banks, private and government owned suppliers, making significant progress reducing their environmental impact. We will give them the opportunity to share what they have done and with what result.
We also want to cover topics such as how central banks can reduce the impact of cash and the cash cycle, how to commission an LCA or CFA and how to move ESG from greenwashing to being a programme driver. Across cash production and cash handling, what makes a difference and what is the commitment and cost?
Co-operation
We want to highlight the benefits of co-operation supplier to supplier, and at a cash cycle level, ie. the cash cycle end-to-end offers opportunities for standardising packaging, standardising materials, reusing materials, data sharing to optimise cash movements, process changes regulated by central banks etc.
We have the real example of cross-industry co-operation in the experience of the UK’s Cash Industry Environmental Charter group and there will be others.
Staff engagement is good for morale and is a powerful driver of change and progress. We will look at how this can be done.
Specific challenges
Specific challenges range from agreeing industry wide metrics for ESG reports and LCAs, establishing appropriate criteria to include in tenders, and what weighting to give them, disposing of notes at the end of life, green energy purchasing, deciding when carbon offsetting is right and how to do it well, reducing ATM energy use and the use of fossil fuels for cash movements.
Technology focus
We have seen work on everything from capturing and reusing heat, energy generation, wastewater management, end of life solutions, achieving a ‘circular’ economy and re-purposing of track and trace solutions to enable reuse of materials and plastic separation. We will focus on how technology can help sustainability, looking both at innovations within the cash cycle and examples from other industries and sectors.
Who should attend
Anybody involved in or responsible for what their organisation does around sustainability. This is intended as a forum where people working on sustainability can learn, exchange views and explore.
Central bank/treasury banknote and coin issue departments:
- Policy
- Cash management
- Procurement
- Vault management
- Cash centre managers
Cash manufacturers:
- Coin blank manufacturers and mints
- Substrate, security feature component and ink suppliers
- Prepress, printing and finishing equipment manufacturers
- Banknote printers
Cash cycle stakeholders:
- Currency machine sorting and handling manufacturers
- Cash management and cash in transit companies
- Destruction and end of life machine and management companies
- Financial institutions, retailers
Environmental solution providers:
- Energy suppliers
- Wastewater solution providers
- Circular economy experts
- Waste solution companies
- ESG software specialists
- Life cycle assessment (LCA)/carbon footprint assessment (CFA)
- Carbon offsetting specialists
Programme So Far…
Monday 14 November
Seminar 13:30 – 17:00: Cash Industry Environmental Charter Group (CIECG)
This seminar is free for Central Bank Delegates and UK CIECG members – see the Fees section for more information.
The Difference Industry Co-operation Can Make
In September 2020 a UK commercial bank, NatWest, invited 36 organisations to meet online to discuss the collective environmental impact of their cash operations. The discussion was about what could be achieved if they worked together. In January 2021 a Charter was signed committing signatories to get to zero carbon emissions by 2030 for operations, eliminate single-use non-recyclable plastics in note centres by 2030, to reduce single-use non-recyclable plastics in coin centres b 2030 (on a sliding scale between now and then) and to get to 100% renewable electricity for their own operations by 2022.
This seminar explores how the Charter group was set up, how it is organised and operates and what it has achieved. The group is as active today as it was when it started and the work that it does is detailed, measured and transparent. The Bank of England and the Royal Mint are members, as are all the Note Circulation Scheme sorting members, six commercial banks and two cash in transit companies.
The aim of the seminar is to demonstrate what is possible and to inspire others to do the same.
Tuesday 15 November
Session 1: Introduction, setting the scene
08:30
Context.
Sarah Ivory
University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
Session 2: Doing ESG well
09:35
LCAs
Toby Green
MyCarbon
09:55
Prediction of the ecological impact of new technologies at the development phase
Antonio Arriette
European Central Bank
10:15
Procurement of LCAs
Jan-Mark Geusebrock
DNB
10:35
TBC
Rupert Pearce
Rewired Earth
11:05 – Break – Refreshments
Session 3: Procurements and Tenders
11:35
Procurement Strategy
13:05 – Lunch
Session 4: Co-operation and staff engagement
14:05
TBC
Sarah Allen
Vaultex
14:25
Climate Education Strategy
14:45
TBC
Felix Ehrtmann
G+D Currency Technology GmbH
15:05
TBC
Jutta Buyse
ICA
15:45 – Break – Refreshments
Session 5: Getting to Zero waste: part 1
16:15
Circular Economy (Reduce, Reuse, Recyle)
Felix Ehrtmann
G+D Currency Technology GmbH
16:35
Packaging Circular Economy
16:55
Data: is it the missing link to creating a more sustainable future for cash?
Mark Stevenson
Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions:
Wednesday 16 November
Session 6: Getting to Zero waste: part 2
08:30
Data
James Veale
Green Token by SAP
08:50
Composting
Syed Faizen Haider Shah
Pakistan Security Printing Corporation
09:30
Sustainability strarts with the destruction process of banknotes
Gabriel Moser
Hunkeler (Switzerland)
10:30 – Break – Refreshments
Session 7: Getting to Net Zero
11:00
Renewable Energy
Grant Barr
E.On
Eddy Mitchell
E.On
11:20
Renewable Energy
Matthew Brander
University of Edinburgh
11:40
Less Energy
TBC
13:00 – Lunch
Session 8: Cash Cycle
14:00
TBC
Andrew Cowens
Loomis
14:40
Sleep Mode, data, compent reuse, local recycling, ONE Bank
Neil Evans
Glory Global Solutions
15:00
Efficiency
TBC
Branding Opportunities
App & Handbook
GBP £2,500
Coffee-refreshment-lunch breaks over 2 days
GBP £5,200 / 2 days
GBP £2,600 / day
Opening Cocktail with Canape
GBP £5,000
Lanyards & Badges
GBR £2,000
Farewell Drinks
GBP £2,000
If you have any questions about the branding opportunities, click on the button below or email Sam Burns at [email protected].
Please note that local VAT at the prevailing rate will be added to all invoices where relevant.
Table Top Exhibition
Maximise your exposure at the 2022 event by taking part in our table top exhibition, to take place during the evening drinks reception.
The Cash & Payment Sustainability Forum includes an informal table top exhibition for any companies to share their best practice, promote cooperation and address specific environmental challenges and solutions in the cash and payments arena.
Ends 23 Sep 2022
After 23 Sep 2022
Table Top Exhibition
GBP 585
GBP 645
Table Top Exhibition
Ends 23 Sep 2022
After 23 Sep 2022
GBP 585
GBP 645
If you have any questions about exhibiting, click on the button below or email Sam Burns at [email protected].
Please note that local VAT at the prevailing rate will be added to all invoices where relevant.
Our Table Top Exhibitors
Our Venue
InterContinental Edinburgh the George
Making your hotel reservation
Delegates are responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodation.
Booking Your Stay
Delegates will soon be able to book their stay for the conference and receive the special Reconnaissance International rate. Watch this space!
Beware of Unsolicited Offers
Delegates should only book their accommodation using the official reservation page when it becomes available – and not through any other agent.
Disreputable companies (such as Trade Show Housing) have been known to approach delegates with unauthorised offers – and these companies cannot be trusted.
Such companies have not been endorsed by us – and we never share delegate information with any housing company or travel agent. All unsolicited offers should be ignored.
If you have any questions or concerns about the hotel arrangements, contact the conference team:
[email protected]
+44 (0)1932 785 680
Delegate Fees
Government representatives can attend the conference at the discounted rate. Further discounts apply for early registration – ends on 23 September 2022
Ends 23 Sep 2022
After 23 Sep 2022
Standard Delegate
GBP 1755
GBP 1950
Central Bank Delegate 1
GBP 900
GBP 1,000
1. Central Bank Delegate – Applies to central banks and treasury departments responsible for banknotes, coins and payments.
Pre-Conference Workshop Fee
There is an additional charge to attend our pre-conference workshop. Central Bank delegate and delegate from UK CIECG member organisation can attend for free.
Central Bank & CIECG 1
All Other Delegates
Pre-Conference Workshop
Free of charge
GBP 150
1. Central Bank Delegate – Applies to central banks and treasury departments responsible for banknotes, coins and payments.
1. Delegate from UK CIECG member organisation
Delegate Fees
Government representatives can attend the conference at the discounted rate. Further discounts apply for early registration – ends on 23 September 2022
Standard Delegate
Ends 23 Sep 2022
After 23 Sep 2022
GBP 1755
GBP 1950
Central Bank Delegates
Ends 23 Sep 2022
After 23 Sep 2022
GBP 900
GBP 1,000
Central Bank Delegate – Applies to central banks and treasury departments responsible for banknotes, coins and payments.
Pre-Conference Workshop Fee
There is an additional charge to attend our pre-conference workshop. Central Bank delegate and delegate from UK CIECG member organisation can attend for FREE.
All Other Delegates
Pre-Conference Workshop
GBP 150
Central Bank Delegate – Applies to central banks and treasury departments responsible for banknotes, coins and payments.
Delegate from UK CIECG member organisation
About Us
The Cash & Payments Sustainability Forum is brought to you by Reconnaissance International, co-publishers of the industry newsletters Currency News and Cash & Payment News, along with various directories and reports including the recent white paper ‘Cash: a Roadmap to Sustainability’.
Reconnaissance also organises a range of industry networking conferences and forums each year around the topics of cash, coins, high security printing and authentication.
