UAE central bank to put Braille on banknotes
Emirati authority joins Hong Kong in using feature rejected elsewhere
The Central Bank of the UAE has decided to proceed with printing Braille characters on its banknotes, joining the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) as one of a select few central banks that use the feature to help blind and partially sighted people distinguish between banknotes.
The central bank's board of directors met on July 9 and, among other decisions, reviewed a memorandum "regarding re-printing of quantities of currency notes of denominations AED1,000, AED500, AED200, AED20, AED10 and
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