A new German advocacy group will fight to keep hard cash as a universally accepted payment method, in hopes of pushing back against the expanding use of credit cards in the country. Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, held a launch event on Friday in Berlin for the National Cash Forum, a new group to defend the status of cash. Regular Germans are finding it harder to access cash as banks reduce the number of cash machines and branches, while a small number of restaurants and retailers have started refusing to accept cash at all, the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (vzbv) compla…