EMEA Cash Cycle Seminar (ICCOS) 2022 Heads to Istanbul

The EMEA Cash Cycle Seminar (ICCOS) was again held in a virtual format at the start of November. Despite this, the event attracted nearly 200 registrations based in around 40 countries and representing 77 different organisations. As usual for ICCOS the organisations participating were predominantly banks (37) and CIT/CMC companies (13).

The event focused on several critical themes including cash trends at local, regional and global levels (presentations from DNB, ECB, Banque de France, HSBC), developments in Access to Cash (Enryo, Geldmaat, Sonect), and developments in optimisation and sustainability (HSBC and Garanti BBVA).

A particularly interesting session was McKinsey’s presentation of its report commissioned by DNB examining the future of the Dutch cash infrastructure system. One of the interesting conclusions drawn, and expanded on in the presentation, was the inability of cash to function as a contingency in the Netherlands.