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The End of Cash? What ATMs Tell Us About the Future of Money
The End of Cash? What ATMs Tell Us About the Future of Money
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The banking world is entering a cashless age driven by mobile and contactless payments.
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In 2024, contactless payments surged globally to the tune of 10
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trillion dollars across more than 450 billion global transactions.
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Online payments reached almost 13 trillion dollars with over 200 billion transactions.
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But as digital channels expand, the physical infrastructure we once depended on,
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like bank branches and ATMs, is becoming less visible in people's daily lives.
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According to research from Datos Insights, there are close to 3 million ATMs in the world.
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That's about 360 ATMs for every 1 million people.
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Covid really accelerated people's use of Digi Banking.
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If I were to compare it say 5 years ago, there is a reduction in the people who use our machines.
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In some nations, cashless spending has become routine, shaped by high trust in financial
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institutions, widespread smartphone adoption, and robust digital payment infrastructure.
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Sweden is often cited as the clearest example
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with over 98% of its population owning a debit or credit card.
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Other countries on the way to a cashless society include Norway,
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Finland, South Korea and Singapore.
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Singapore is a prime example of this shift. According to figures
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disclosed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore,
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the nation's bank branches and ATMs have fallen by an average of 2% a year over the past decade.
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And as of 2026, there are 150 retail branches and 1,600 off- premise ATMs.
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This follows a similar trend for most of Southeast Asia.
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Bank branches in Indonesia
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Brunei,
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Thailand
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and Malaysia
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have declined steadily in the last decade.
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They're being replaced by services such as Singapore's Pay Now, a digital payment system
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launched in 2017. It allows users to transfer and receive funds using just their mobile number.
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What government and Monetary Authority of Singapore have done is built real
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time digital payment infrastructure. So you built national rails and then within
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those rails you allow competition to happen at user experience. So MAS has set standards
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and incentives perhaps grants and support but allowed banks and fintechs to innovate.
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What we have done is that we've effectively looked at our top transactions that are done
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over the counter today and these transactions used to comprise 80% of why people go to the branches
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and now we've moved them to the machines so that people can access them at their convenience 24/7.
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We've seen so many evolutions on you know of customer behaviors.
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So we've got the digital native generation right and they have never set foot into a branch.
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It has to change because digital technologies are superior to physical infrastructure. Why?
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Because they have lower marginal cost, better scalability, they have stronger data analytics.
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So economic forces tell us this will keep moving in that direction and there is no going back.
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But cash hasn't disappeared. It remains a dependable fallback,
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especially in an era where cyberattacks and natural disasters are increasingly common.
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We can think of ATMs and physical infrastructure
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as a backup. And that's where value of cash will still lie.
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Even in a highly digital market like Singapore, cash is still common in certain settings,
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particularly through small value transactions or in the nation's traditional hawker centers.
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When we look at where to place our ATMs, we look at a lot of factors. We look at the demand of the
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area. Pop-up ATMs are great in the sense that they are able to help us meet seasonal demand.
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Across emerging economies, ATMs still play a crucial role.
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Egypt and Uzbekistan are even expanding their networks driven by the needs of
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rural and remote communities where internet coverage remains uneven.
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This happens around the world. When you think of most emerging markets,
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when you think of South Asia, Africa, Latin America, even some Eastern European countries
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where we have unstable connectivity, irregular merchant acceptance and low digital literacy. So,
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you got to think of what's the best hybrid approach,
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how to embed this physical infrastructure like ATMs into the digital customer journey.
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ATMs are also upping their suite of services from
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biometric authentication and cash recycling to coin deposit machines.
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But as they expand their capabilities,
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the maintenance behind them will need to become more advanced too.
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Cyber security has grown so much because everything is
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going online. A lot of people are trying to steal or attack.
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So this is one of a really good example of the jobs that will come to the front
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line. How to protect all these customers, all these data that is now digital on bank servers.
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With AI and Agentic AI what we are seeing is we're incorporating them for our staff
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to better assist our customers. So that very much is a priority for us.
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In the short term, a lot of jobs will be taken away by AI
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digitalization. But then in intermediate and long-term,
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what will happen as it happens usually in these revolutionary changes, new jobs will be created.
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So while payment habits continue to evolve, ATMs are not disappearing. They're adapting
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to remain a meaningful part of the financial ecosystem.
