Webinar: "Banknote circulation, the cash cycle and Banca d'Italia's monitoring of professional cash handlers"Date: 17-18 December 2020

The webinar illustrates the trends in banknote circulation in Italy and estimations of banknote requirements. The Italian cash cycle is described, providing information on the actors involved and data on the cash handling industry.

The programme also includes: regulatory aspects, with a focus on Banca d'Italia’s role in preserving the quality of banknote circulation and its recently assigned role as supervisory authority on Cash in Transit Companies (CITs) in the field of anti-money laundering; the experience gathered on monitoring activities, including off-site and on-site monitoring of professional cash handlers; and the analysis of counterfeits and the work of the Bank of Italy’s National Counterfeit Analysis Centre (CNA).