Shaping the cash cycle of the future

Matthee le Cointre is strategist at Geldmaat, where he drives innovation across the cash value chain. He leads initiatives in payments strategy, exploring alternative transactions and digital currencies, and contributes to policy development around the digitale euro. His work includes strategic foresight on the future of cash, scenario planning, and shaping Geldmaat’s long-term positioning in the payments landscape.

Shaun O’Brien, a Lead Analyst in FedCash Services at the Federal Reserve Financial Services, specializes in researching consumer payment behavior and forecasting cash payment and receipt volumes. He has authored and co-authored numerous papers on payment usage, including the recent "2025 Findings from the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice" and several studies on consumer payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. O’Brien began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in 2011 within Economic Research and transitioned to Federal Reserve Financial Services in 2013

Olivier has been holding an expert position at that banknote issue and circulation section of the European Central Bank since 2001. He has been responsible for determining the annual banknote requirements and print volumes of the Eurosystem. He is coordinating banknote transfers among central banks with the objective to ensure that banknote demand is met efficiently. Olivier is in charge of coordinating cash-related matters in preparation of new Member States joining the euro area. Olivier holds a degree in business administration. Before he joined the ECB, he worked at Deutsche Bundesbank branches and at the Bundesbank’s cash policy department.

Professor Franz Seitz teaches Economics with a special focus on Monetary Policy and Financial Markets at Weiden Technical University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He is author of numerous articles in national and international journals. His main fields of research are monetary theory and policy, financial markets as well as payments markets, especially cash in circulation. For many years, Professor Seitz has been acting as a consultant in different projects for central banks, commercial banks and financial as well as non-financial corporations.

Ronan McClintock is a Manager at the Bank of England on the Wholesale Cash Oversight team. He has worked in Notes Directorate for over 20 years starting in research, design and manufacturing working closely on the transition to polymer banknotes. More recently he has worked on the future arrangements for wholesale cash distribution in the UK. Before joining the Bank of England, Ronan earned a BSc in Physics from the University of Nottingham.

Barry is student of the evolution and economics of payments and cash, the fundamentals which drive cash behaviour and economics, and works to apply this to make a difference at the intersection of traditional payments, emerging payments and cash. He has been involved in the industry since 2002, for 15 years with Standard Bank as Head: Cash Services.

In 2018 he started Rohrs and Associates and advises Cash Ecosystem participants (Fintechs, Banks, Cash In Transit companies). Barry participates in industry think tanks and assist clients optimising payments and cash operations and developing new solutions at the intersection of cash and digital.

He maintains an extensive network in the cash industry across Africa and internationally.

Barbara has been working at Narodowy Bank Polski for thirteen years. She began her career at Poland’s central bank as Deputy Director of the Cash and Issue Department, where she currently holds the position of Director.

Throughout her work at NBP, she has been involved in the introduction of a new series of circulation banknotes, changes in the denominational structure, and the development of new regulations governing cooperation with the cash market. She was responsible for the Hryvnia Exchange Program in Poland, which was later adopted as a model by other European countries. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group (CBCDG) and serves as the Chair of the Cash Circulation Council in Poland. She graduated from the University of Szczecin and completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw.