Legislative framework
It is with this in mind that the Minister of the Economy David Clarinval (MR) went to Brussels siege in Brinks on Wednesday. The American company pleaded with the Liberal to soften Belgian laws in order to maintain cash payments. Various machines were presented at the Vice-Prime: Boxes for ticket deposit, country (automatic fund). As an elected Ardennes confronted with the remoteness of species storage solutions, David Clarinval has expressed great interest in these secure solutions.
“I am one of those who consider that it is important to continue to have the possibility of paying and being paid in cash”insisted number 2 of the federal government. “”On the historical level, it is something important, it is a question of freedom. As a liberal, the full digital is something that I am not ready to accept. With digital, traceability is always possible. In this world, we are not always forced to have complete traceability. As a liberal, I am attached to privacy. I want my freedom, I want there to be the possibility for operators to be able to continue to pay independently. But that means that there must be sufficient accessibility of cash. We see here in the innovations that Brinks puts forward that there are innovative solutions. I very much appreciate these different automata which allow to have the possibility of paying and receiving liquid money within shops without necessarily having to go through a bank. “
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This visit is part of a broader reflection of the Wever government to defend the use of cash. On the Arizona menu: how to deal with the reduction of bank counters and distributors, how to meet the need for merchants to deposit their recipes without traveling many kilometers, and how to be ready in the event of a crisis.
Bank instead of banks
“Brinks brings innovative solutions that I find really interesting to be able to implement in Belgian legislation”was delighted David Clarinval, explaining that a working group had been created with his “colleagues” Jan Jambon (Finance) and Bernard Quintin (interior) to determine the measures to be taken.
A downside however: these solutions aim to compensate for a function that banks fulfill less and less, but it must be avoided that they translate into an additional charge for the shops and independents who will welcome them.
“It is true that it requires that traders play the game, but many traders are ready to do it, because they prefer to have these solutions only to have to make many kilometers to deposit their recipe every night.”