Cash handling systems exist for every size of business and every set of cash management requirements. So it’s important to look at a broad selection of vendors to ensure that you’re investing in the system that best fits your needs, both now and in the future, without paying for features that you may never need.

Money handling firm Money Controls believes that innovation, flexibility and efficiency are essential requirements for its customers. These elements are designed into all of Money Controls’ products, and the service that its team delivers. And this customer-driven approach has resulted in an increasing number of OEMs across the globe specifying the use of Money Controls’ products for their gaming machines.

GBA ST2, the latest bank note validator from AstroSystems, combines the reliability of previous GBA validators with some new features and options required in today’s marketplace, such as barcode reading for TITO applications and USB connectivity allowing both simple software updates and serial communications.

Fraud protection, reliability and the prospect of a cashless future are among the biggest factors for operators investing in cash handling systems, Barnaby Page discovers. For the amusement and gambling sectors, handling cash is a necessary headache – and the more money you’re taking, the worse the headache gets. Opportunities for customer and employee fraud abound, and even when there’s no dishonesty involved, there’s a crushing workload and an everpresent risk of making mistakes in counting and sorting cash.

The HESS Bill Breaker is a great help on the casino and arcade floor. It allows customers to change large banknote denominations into smaller denominations in order to be able to insert in the right amount into gaming devices.

Comesterogroup continues in its technological research and presents a preview of many interesting and advantageous new items, above all in the wide range of change machines.

The NV200 High Volume, High Security Bank Note Validator from Innovative Technology is a high volume, high security bank note validator with a 500 note cashbox. Accepting industry standard barcodes and notes up to 85mm wide the validator accepts notes at acute angles and straightens before reading.

This money-changer from Suzo Happ combines the beauty of flexibility and security at a very reasonable price. Customers can choose from a trilogy note reader from Pyramid Technologies or an electronic coin acceptor from Comestero. The major flexibility is underlined by the coin payout.

Although being relatively new to market, this belt-driven hopper is already becoming a hit due to a set of new benefits. The sturdy motor ensures longevity and the coin optics PCB are mounted on one board that can be removed for cleaning.

This coin payout hopper has been designed to the highest standards for reliability and has thus become the standard choice amongst many manufacturers in the industry. The Cube Hopper MK2 is compact in design and has a continuous opto-sensor check for ultimate security.

The ideal solution when coin payout has to be diverted upwards in the machine. For example, in slant top slots it has always been a challenge to divert the coins upwards. The positioning of the monitor does not allow a standard hopper to be fitted. The hopper must be below this but still the coins have to be paid out next to the monitor.

Suzo International offers a full range of changers. The smaller, more compact range is covered by CatCoin.

For higher coin capacity, Suzo International offers the money changers from Germany's GeWeTe.

The Pyramid banknote reader from PTI has quickly gained market share in Europe. The combination of high quality and unbeatable pricing has convinced many manufacturers of this product. The Pyramid is simple to reprogramme; essential for manufacturers with a strong focus on export.

This ingeniously developed and robust counter combines a normal currency counter with a full functional currency sorter in one unit. A currency counter that can be used in normal applications, to count banknotes in a teller's counter, or in demanding applications such as ATM loading, fitness sorting, mixed deposits or value balancing and dispensing.

FutureLogic was the company that invented the thermal barcode printer for TITO and thus has set the standard in the industry, being the preferred selection with discerning manufacturers and operators around the world.

The CatCoin Coin Counters securely count up to 2000 coins per minute. A whole range of coins can be counted at the same time as coins between 14 and 35mm can be inserted and counted. Two products are available - the Catcoin 101 and the CatCoin 102. The CatCoin 202 has the additional feature of a large bowl (for large coin counting capacities).

A new Cleaning Card for the JCM Global DBV Series Bill Validators is being launched today through KICTeam, the world leader in the manufacture of cleaning cards. Designed for the DBV 300, 301, 302, 303 Bill Validators, this cleaning card, featuring Waffletechnology^TM, incorporates a tension release waffle pattern. This pattern allows the cleaning card to maintain maximum cleaning waffle height as it passes through the currency validators.

NRI presents the new freefall validator f². With speeds of up to 10 coins per second the f² is the ideal 3.5 inch coin validator for high-speed coin acceptance and recycling applications. High coin security at maximum speeds is ensured by NRI's Multi-Frequency-Technology (MFT). Moreover LED lights at the front indicate the machine status at any time.

adp Gauselmann GmbH is well-known for setting standards in the German AWP and amusement industry. This has been the case over the last three decades from this subsidiary of the Gauselmann Group, which is based in Eastern Westphalia. The industry highlight of the past two years within the field of cash-handling has been the "Merkur Dispenser 100".

MEI is introducing a new product to its portfolio: the GEO Gravity. Similar to what MEI offered casino operators with CASHFLOW SC, the introduction of the GEO Gravity provides a similar advancement in performance for smaller scale casinos and amusement operators.  GEO Gravity effectively balances performance and price - expanding expectations for acceptance rates, security and jam performance in a market segment where MEI has not historically participated.

AstroSystems Ltd., the European division of currency validation specialist Astrosys International Ltd, has taken its portfolio of innovative bank note validation solutions to a new level with the release of the impressive GBA ST2 note acceptor.

Since the introduction of their Jetsort coin sorter, Cummins have continued to work closely with suppliers within the industry, using the latest in cash-counting technology to provide cash-handling solutions with unrivalled speed, efficiency, accuracy, and reliability. - Ranging from their high-speed M6400 and M4200 with sorting speeds of 6000 and 3000 mixed coins per minute respectively, to their compact M1000 series, capable of counting up to 1800 mixed coins per minute, the Jetsort's compatibility with industry specific software (where data from the count can be recorded directly to a PC) has enhanced the coin counting process and significantly reduced the processing time for many arcade owners.

On-machine barcode ticket scanning is increasingly popular in European Video Lottery or Betting Terminal applications.

European gaming is rapidly adopting 'Ticket Out' as a payment solution across many machines and sectors. Eurocoin's ‘Epic' range of gaming and lottery printers are proven world leaders. ‘Epic' offers manufacturers the choice of printing variable-length roll receipts or flat tickets that can be re-inserted into the machine bill acceptor for credit.