Security features
Maximising the impact of banknote communications
Antti Heinonen highlights the ongoing evolution in how central banks talk about their banknotes
Brazilian central bank outlines CBDC project
Drex is being developed on a distributed ledger platform with smart contracts
Currency round-up: New yen banknotes to arrive in July 2024
De La Rue outlook brightens; Egypt continues transition to polymer; and more
Currency round-up
New notes for Paraguay, printing error for Thailand, and news from Peru, Costa Rica and Tonga
The race to adopt ISO 20022 payments messaging
Some jurisdictions do not plan to adopt the protocol, while others are preparing for a disjointed implementation
Filipe Dinis on Bank of Canada’s cyber strategy and tackling cyber risks
The Canadian central bank’s chief operating officer calls for heightened vigilance, more collaboration, info sharing and tabletop exercises, and less reliance on similar, siloed systems
Currency services: De La Rue
Printing doyen expanded capacity, functionality and market share amid corporate turnaround
Are central banks ahead of banknote counterfeiters?
Antti Heinonen analyses data on recent trends in counterfeiting
Currency Benchmarks 2021 – presentation
Central Banking’s currency subject matter specialist Rachael King speaks with Chris Jeffery about circulation, impact of Covid-19, forecasting, costs and resourcing, security and design, sustainability, and more
Ecuador brings in anti-theft dyes
Latin American country faces increasing crime rates including attacks on ATMs
Material world: the enduring appeal of paper banknotes
Central banks have used space-age polymers to make banknotes for decades. So why does paper remain predominant in banknote production?
RBNZ seeks to quell ‘urban myth’ over counterfeit cash
Central bank says people risk falling foul of the law as practice of “scraping” banknotes spreads
Brazil’s Pix system used by 62% of population – central bank
Real-time retail payments platform was most-used means of payments in October – BCB
Currency managers fighting counterfeits with new security features
Availability of sophisticated printers see counterfeits continue to rise
Spartan️: tougher, ultra‑durable, cost‑effective banknotes for the note/coin boundary
CCL Secure explores how its new formulation of bank-grade polymer and ink technologies, Spartan, focuses on extreme durability and offers an imaginative, ultra-durable, efficient, sustainable and cost-effective solution.
Half of central banks surveyed experienced RTGS outages last year
Most reported operating one contingency site
Fintech communication is most challenging for central banks
Central banks view fintech as greatest challenge, but rate monetary policy communication highly
Are we entering the polymer age?
CCL Secure explores the security and anti-counterfeit benefits of polymer banknote technology. As this developing technology reveals its advantages over traditional paper-based banknotes, could we soon see a shift in the status quo in polymer’s favour?
Currency Benchmarks 2020 report – the data behind the cash cycle
Perspectives on staffing, circulation, forecasting, fraud, substrate choice, outsourcing and climate risk
Watermarks and intaglio printing remain top security features
Increasing the number of security features does not necessarily reduce counterfeiting
Sama launches polymer version of five-riyal banknote
New note will circulate alongside existing cotton banknotes