Part III: Business & Regulation · Banking, Chips & Financial Operations

18. Cage (Main Cage / Cashier’s Cage)

Cash Handling

The cage is the central financial operations hub of a casino, physically secured behind bars or glass, where all major cash and cash-equivalent transactions occur. Staffed by cage cashiers and supervised by cage managers or main bank cashiers, the cage handles chip sales and redemptions, check cashing, wire transfers, safekeeping deposits and withdrawals, marker issuance and payment, jackpot payouts, and foreign currency exchange. The cage maintains the casino’s working cash supply (the imprest bank) and interfaces directly with the count room and vault for movement of funds. Surveillance cameras cover all cage positions, and dual-control procedures apply to high-value transactions.

In practice

The cage is the casino’s equivalent of a bank branch. All cage transactions are logged with unique sequence numbers and employee identifiers for full audit trail capability.

One entry from the Casino Industry Glossary — 1,157 terms written for surveillance, compliance and operations professionals rather than for players. Definitions describe industry usage; where a term carries a regulatory meaning, verify against the instrument that governs your jurisdiction.