BPFI warns providing universal access to cash must be shared responsibility among all industry players

The Banking & Payments Federation of Ireland (BFPI) has broadly welcomed new government measures to provide universal access to cash, but warned that a “level playing field among market players” will be “imperative” to the success of the policy.

The group – which represents the banking, payments and fintech sector in Ireland – said that the cost of providing “reasonable access to cash should be a shared industry responsibility” among all providers of cash and ...