Some retail sectors refuse cash payments too often
DNBulletin
What is the state of cash acceptance in shops and by other retailers in the Netherlands? DNB monitors developments annually.
Payments
We make payments every day. While we take their speed and security for granted, complex processes behind the scenes make high-quality payment systems possible. Find out more. About the production of euro banknotes. About checks on cash. And about internet banking and contactless payments.
- How do payment systems work?
- Cash payments
- Electronic payments
- Guilder notes
- Damaged euro banknotes and coins
- Exchanging undamaged euro banknotes
- Exchanging guilders and euros: paper applications
- Fake euro banknotes
- Special money: the National Numismatic Collection
- Collector coins
- Exchanging collector coins
News items
Increase in counterfeit euro banknotes of very low quality
Press release
More counterfeit euro banknotes were withdrawn from circulation in the Netherlands in 2022 than in the previous year. A total of 38,200 were found, 47% more than in 2021. This increase is mainly due to a limited number of fraud cases involving counterfeit euro banknotes of very low quality.
Millions of Dutch struggle to get to grips with digital payments
DNBulletin
2.6 million Dutch adults do not manage all their banking affairs on their own. This has emerged from a study conducted by DNB. Although many of them would like to be more self-reliant, they need assistance for a variety of reasons.