Banknotes and currency management
About the course
In an increasingly digital world, currency management remain a crucial part of the operations of central banks. Cash is changing, not disappearing; banknote management sits at the intersection of financial inclusion, payment resilience, and monetary confidence.
Our course provides central bank professionals with a practical overview of modern banknote and currency management. Participants will examine approaches to financial inclusion, strengthening cash resilience, and managing banknote security, integrity and lifecycle. The course also explores how artificial intelligence and the evolving digital currency landscape.
Through real-world examples and interactive sessions, participants will master the latest, most effective currency management strategies across all areas of interest.
Agenda
Policies and regulations supporting access to cash and financial inclusion
- Role of central banks, commercial banks and regulators in wholesale and retail cash resilience; declining transaction volumes and cash as a contingency mechanism.
- Understanding regulatory frameworks and recent policy developments to preserve access to cash.
- Cash flow and circulation analytics; threat assessments, insurance and emergency escalation.
- Risks to wholesale cash infrastructure and mitigation approaches.
- Best practices for rural, vulnerable and underserved populations.
Banknote design, security and integrity
- Assessing substrate choices (paper vs polymer) based on security, durability, lifecycle costs and public acceptance.
- Evaluating current and emerging counterfeiting threats, layered security features and authentication technologies.
- Serial‑number tracking: methods, read technologies (OCR, mobile reading, high‑speed sorters), sampling strategies and limitations.
- Banknote issuance, recirculation, fitness standards and destruction.
- Creating checklists and applying good practices when introducing a new banknote series.
Artificial intelligence in currency operations
- Use cases: demand forecasting, anomaly detection (surges, counterfeiting waves), predictive maintenance for sorters/ATMs, vault optimisation, quality‑management automation.
- Understanding the role of big data in quality management and currency operational performance.
- AI agents and automation of routine currency-management processes.
- Governance frameworks for AI deployed in central-bank operations.
Digital currencies: forms, uses and design choices
- Forms of digital money: commercial bank money, e-money, stablecoins and CBDCs.
- Privacy, identity and AML/CFT considerations.
- Limits, holding caps, remuneration and other monetary design choices.
- Interoperability with existing payment systems.
- CBDC implications for commercial banks and financial stability; coexistence of cash, CBDCs, stablecoins and commercial-bank money.
Learning objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Assess policies supporting access to cash and financial inclusion.
- Analyse cash circulation, demand and migration patterns.
- Identify threats to cash infrastructure and appropriate mitigation approaches.
- Understand banknote issuance, recirculation, security features and counterfeiting risks.
- Apply good practices when introducing a new banknote series.
- Identify practical AI use cases across currency operations.
- Compare forms of digital money, including CBDCs and stablecoins.
- Assess digital currency design choices and interoperability requirements.
Who should attend
Relevant titles and departments may include, but are not limited to:
- Banknote & currency management departments
- Heads of banknote operations
- Heads of currency operations
- Heads of cash management
- Cash policy, resilience & financial inclusion departments
- Heads of cash policy
- Banknote design, security & integrity departments
- Heads of banknote design
- Currency analytics & technology departments
- Heads of currency analytics
- Heads of CBDC
- Heads of operational resilience
Registration
November 25, 2026
Online
14:00 GMT
$1,885
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Accreditation
This course is CPD (Continued Professional Development) accredited. One credit is awarded for every hour of learning at the event.
