CSF 2024 brochure

24–26 JUNE 2024

Frankfurt, Germany

The only event to work towards sustainability in the production, circulation and destruction of cash – one of the world’s most enduring and widely used products cashsustainability.com

Welcome to the Cash Sustainability Forum™

The Cash Sustainability Forum, which takes place 24–26 June 2024 in Frankfurt, is the only event that brings together all the stakeholders 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.

Who Should Attend

Central bank/treasury note 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 management companies

ESG software specialists

Life cycle assessment (LCA)/carbon footprint assessment (CFA)

Carbon offsetting specialists

Get Involved

Ask about our sponsor and exhibitor opportunities.

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Cash Cycle Recirculation And Recycling Workshop

24th June

This afternoon long workshop will hear from central banks (the Philippines, ECB and SARB), NatWest bank, Diebold Nixdorf, Brink’s, CashInfraPro and Oberthur Cash Protection as they present and discuss how to reduce the impact of cash post-issue. The ECB’s Product Environment Footprint study found that 87% of the impact of cash occurred post issue, so this is an important topic. The workshop is open to all delegates. There will be two discussion panels and the chance to compare notes with colleagues.

Introducing the Forum

25th June

The Forum will start with keynote speakers from the Bundesbank, European Central Bank (ECB), Rewired Earth and G+D giving us an overview of the sustainability challenges facing cash, and the planet, and some of the actions they are taking. Rewired Earth are driving a co-operative approach uniting key players to tackle sustainability challenges in business and building on a highly innovative survey methodology.

Metrics

MyCarbon, EcoVadis, Verco and De La Rue will talk about measurement. On the basis that you can only change what you measure, this session starts a discussion about what goals to set, how to establish comparable metrics, living with Europe’s new environmental reporting regulations (CSRD) and measuring scope 3 emissions for real.

Sustainability and Tendering

Building on the metrics discussed immediately beforehand there will then be a panel discussion about how to tender for sustainability in the cash industry. Speakers include Orell Fuessli and EcoVadis

Manufacturing Excellence

The ECB, Oberthur, CCL Secure and Npower will talk about their work to design for sustainability, who is responsible for what in the life of a banknote, helping central banks reduce their environmental impact and how to source renewable energy with confidence.

The Cash Cycle

26th June

CashInfraPro, Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas, NatWest bank and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) will cover practical steps to manage the cash cycle better, coin recirculation in the Philippines, how NatWest and the UK’s Cash Industry Environmental Charter group are moving forward to reducing cash cycle impacts and RBNZ will give a first report on their trial to recycle cash through retail outlets in remote areas without input from commercial banks, a new way of providing access to cash.

Cash Management

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB), Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) and Leftover Currency will describe their work to manage cash differently. While Leftover Currency will explain how central banks can help make coin repatriation easier, SARB and RCM will address different aspects of banknote and coin management, as well as RCM’s wider ESG reporting and initiatives.

Repurposing and Recycling

Louisenthal, Blendpaper/Casa da Moeda and Landqart will provide new ways to recycle and repurpose unfit cotton and hybrid banknotes at end-of-life.

Final Panel Session

The Forum will end with a review of the what has been heard in the form of a panel that debates whether central banks need to lead on cash cycle sustainability.

Be Seen in Frankfurt, and Around the World

Be seen and heard as an environmental sustainability leader by central banks, customers, suppliers and partners.

With a variety of packages available, contact us soon to discuss your participation. We offer both sponsorship and exhibition options at very competitive rates.

Sponsorhip Opportunities

One seat on the program advisory committee

Guaranteed presentation (subject to this meeting the criteria of the programme)

Three delegates (value GBP5,325)

Free entry to the workshop

Free promo ‘pod’

Moderation of one session

Full delegate list of attendees of the event with full contact details

Logo on website, eblasts, all conference materials and on-site Opportunity to take one of the additional branding opportunities at a 20% discount.

£10,000

The first Cash Sustainability Forum was in November 2021, and this built on the white paper’s ‘Cash: a Roadmap to Sustainability’. In 2022 we published a white paper on repurposing unfit cotton banknotes, ‘What Goes Round Comes Round’, and in 2023 we ran three webinars on cotton and polymer destruction. We also supported an IACA webinar on putting sustainability into tenders.

Ahead of the 2024 Cash Sustainability Forum we will publish a white paper on best practice in managing recirculation of cash outside of central banks.