Polymer
Share of polymer banknotes continues to rise
Shift into polymer comes at the expense of varnished cotton
Currency Benchmarks 2024 report – securing cash payments
As transactional cash use falls, many central banks are adopting policies to safeguard cash access
Central Banking Awards 2024: fourth round announced
BIS wins Green initiative award; other awards go for currency, CBDC and AML systems
Currency Benchmarks 2023 – model banks analysis
Data reveals how advanced and emerging market central banks structure their currency operations
Banknote recycling remains limited at most central banks
Just a few institutions track carbon footprints of banknotes
Currency round-up: Liberia withdraws pre-2021 notes
DRC central bank calls on the public to better preserve banknotes, and more
Banknote round-up: Belize may replace UK monarch’s image
Argentina releases new 1000 peso note while Chile reports shortage of smallest denomination
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: De La Rue issues profit warning
Central African central bank to release new coins; and more
Central Banking Awards 2023: final group of winners revealed
Awards recognise lifetime achievement of Stefan Ingves, as well as reserves management, currency, technology and more
Currency round-up: Charles III causes controversy
Australian government drove decision to drop UK monarch from notes, as ECCB weighs its options
Alwyn Jordan becomes Barbados central bank’s acting governor
Cleviston Haynes left central bank on January 31 as his term ended
Currency Benchmarks 2022 – presentation
Currency specialist Ben Margulies discusses cash volumes and use, currency production and design, cash and the climate, and other topics
Currency round-up
New notes for Paraguay, printing error for Thailand, and news from Peru, Costa Rica and Tonga
King Charles to appear on Bank of England notes from 2024
Other Commonwealth central banks have made little comment on changeover
Banknotes: July to September 2022
A round-up of news and salient issues that have affected central bankers in the past three months
Banknotes round-up: Egypt debuts polymer note
Peru continues rollout of new series; Mexico to withdraw 20 peso note; and more
Cash, not trash: the second lives of substrate
Central banks and their banknote providers are taking a range of approaches to recycling cash
Banknotes: April to June 2022
A round-up of news and salient issues that have affected central bankers in the past three months
Currency manager: Central Bank of Costa Rica
New banknotes and coins combine environmental protection, aesthetics and security
Currency services: De La Rue
Printing doyen expanded capacity, functionality and market share amid corporate turnaround