<p>Denmark has recorded its first year without bank robberies, as the use of cold hard cash has dwindled in recent years, the country's finance workers union said.</p>.<p>The increasingly cashless society has led banks to dial down their cash services, the union said in a statement on Monday, leaving little potential loot for robbers.</p>.<p>"It's nothing short of amazing. Because every time it happens, it's an extreme strain on the employees involved," Steen Lund Olsen, vice president of the union, Finansforbundet, said in a statement.</p>.<p>"It's something you can't even begin to understand the emotional impact of if you haven't experienced it yourself," he added.</p>.<p>The union said there had been 221 bank robberies in 2000, which has slowly decreased to less than 10 a year since 2017.</p>.<p>Denmark's central bank reported in March last year that the use of cash had nearly halved from 23 percent of payments in 2017 to 12 percent in 2021.</p>.<p>The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the abandonment of cash, said the bank.</p>.<p>The finance worker's union noted that while holdups have become scarce, "many bank employees who have been robbed continue to struggle with the consequences."</p>.<p>Some still suffer from symptoms such as "anxiety, sadness, irritability, restlessness and insomnia."</p>
<p>Denmark has recorded its first year without bank robberies, as the use of cold hard cash has dwindled in recent years, the country's finance workers union said.</p>.<p>The increasingly cashless society has led banks to dial down their cash services, the union said in a statement on Monday, leaving little potential loot for robbers.</p>.<p>"It's nothing short of amazing. Because every time it happens, it's an extreme strain on the employees involved," Steen Lund Olsen, vice president of the union, Finansforbundet, said in a statement.</p>.<p>"It's something you can't even begin to understand the emotional impact of if you haven't experienced it yourself," he added.</p>.<p>The union said there had been 221 bank robberies in 2000, which has slowly decreased to less than 10 a year since 2017.</p>.<p>Denmark's central bank reported in March last year that the use of cash had nearly halved from 23 percent of payments in 2017 to 12 percent in 2021.</p>.<p>The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the abandonment of cash, said the bank.</p>.<p>The finance worker's union noted that while holdups have become scarce, "many bank employees who have been robbed continue to struggle with the consequences."</p>.<p>Some still suffer from symptoms such as "anxiety, sadness, irritability, restlessness and insomnia."</p>