Ein Sicherheitskonzept zur Stärkung der Resilienz der Bargeldversorgung in Not- und Krisenfällen

Ein Sicherheitskonzept zur Stärkung der Resilienz der Bargeldversorgung in Not- und Krisenfällen

  • February 2023
  • Kirsten Wiegand, Laura Brouer, Paul Glöckner, Tim Hageney, Esther Kern, Tobias Kronberger, Johannes Rieckmann, Tim Stuchtey
  • BIGS Study Number 9
  • BASIC – Resilience of Cash Supply – Security Concepts for Emergency and Crisis Situations

For three years, the BASIC project team, coordinated by BIGS, examined the cash cycle in Germany in terms of its vulnerability and, over time, came up with recommendations on how to make it more resilient. The results of this work have now been published as a security framework in the form of a study. The framework focuses in particular on cash-in-transit companies as central actors in the cash cycle with interfaces to all other actors. The aim is to enable them to further develop their existing emergency and crisis preparedness concepts in conjunction with other market players in order to safeguard their work processes.

In emergencies and crises, it is often no longer possible to operate all cash withdrawal points (ATMs and branches of credit institutions) as usual, for example, due to a lack of necessary resources or the breakdown of ATMs. The framework therefore refers to an optimization algorithm developed by the Supply Chain Services working group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. Furthermore, the framework refers to the CARE (“Cash Resilience”) project of the Deutsche Bundesbank. The CARE project is developing an application for emergency and crisis situations that, in its final stage, will contain decision-relevant data from all professional cash actors. Within the framework of BASIC, the foundation was laid for the tangible further development of information exchange and communication in the event of disruptions, emergencies and crises. Finally, the framework contains recommendations for action to be taken by the actors in the cash cycle as well as by political decision makers.

Published in: German