Currency Fast Forward – Shaping the Future of Money

What do you get when an industry leader, Giesecke+Devrient (G+D), brings together 175 central bankers / print works and 150 cash cycle experts from commercial banks and CITs into one room? A collective of knowledge, experience and focused thought that is willing to listen, challenge and reflect on the big issues affecting the sector.

The Currency Technology Symposium (CTS), a biennial event, celebrated the topic ‘Currency Fast Forward’, a perfect fit for envisioning the future of money together. The agenda expressed the story that while cash remains a ‘given’, a lynchpin of economies and people that is enduring and consistent, digital payments and forms of digital cash are a natural extension of cash, rather than a replacement.

A story in three parts