Banknotes
Riksbank to open two contingency cash offices
Offices will be opened this year and next to guard against disruptions to cash supply
Central Banking Awards 2021: winners in full
Winners in 2021 include the Federal Reserve, Alejandro Díaz de León and Charles Goodhart
Central Bank of Barbados’s first governor dies
Blackman helped to introduce dollar peg and pioneered transparency
Central Banking Awards 2021: third round of winners revealed
Awards go to central banks and market practitioners for payments, market infrastructure and currency
Currency initiative: The ECB and US Federal Reserve’s CDI2 standards
The pair has created an important new technical standard to support more efficient cash management
Currency manager: National Bank of Ukraine
Decisive actions to cut currency denominations while upgrading notes and coins are starting to pay off
RBA opened banknote contingency site during pandemic
Strength of banknote demand during pandemic was ‘unprecedented’, RBA bulletin says
Future of cash: what we can learn from the history of money
Central banks must take a broad view of efficiency if they are to preserve the benefits of cash, says Antti Heinonen
Venezuela releases three new banknotes amid hyperinflation
High-denomination notes reflect ongoing surge in prices
Cash in circulation to remain elevated, Bank of Canada research says
Withdrawal and deposit relationships and high denominations to blame
Ulrich Bindseil on the launch of the digital euro
ECB’s payments head speaks about the functionality, tiering and technology of the eurozone’s planned CBDC
Syrian central bank issues new banknote
New 5,000 lira note is issued as expert estimates that war-torn country’s inflation has reached 179%
ECB reports historically low counterfeit volumes
€20 and €50 remain the most counterfeited, central bank data shows
MAS urges Singaporeans to use digital ‘red envelopes’ during Lunar New Year
E-hong bao help reduce the carbon emissions of printing banknotes, MAS says
Dutch cash deposit ATMs to close after explosive robbery
Banks and police are struggling to combat a spate of ATM bombings
Cuba ends dual-currency regime
Communist regime to merge convertible and domestic peso in major economic reform
Divided Libyan central bank holds peace meeting
Central bank’s first board meeting in five years agrees single exchange rate for war-torn country
The long-term impact of Covid-19 on banknote demand
Cash usage assumptions challenged at a time when central banks make limited use of longer-term forecasts
BoE needs ‘better handle’ on control of UK currency
Lawmakers highlight the UK’s disjointed cash management, which could put consumers at risk, they say
Covid-19 likely to have major effect on UK cash usage – BoE
Risk of Covid transmission via banknotes diminishes significantly over time, BoE study finds
The world’s first retail CBDC tiptoes into existence
The Bahamas’ e-solutions manager Bobby Chen speaks about how Covid-19 brought forward the nationwide launch of the ‘sand dollar’, and how limits and wallet types are affecting usage
How can central banks secure the future of money?
Central banks should start tackling the accounting, legal and policy challenges related to CBDC
Currency Benchmark Report 2020 – Executive Summary
A snapshot on staffing, circulation, fraud, substrates, outsourcing and climate risk
Currency Benchmarks 2020 report – the data behind the cash cycle
Perspectives on staffing, circulation, forecasting, fraud, substrate choice, outsourcing and climate risk