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Astrid Mitchell

29 Feb. 2024

2 min read

Security Designers Forum – New Event for the Banknote Design Community

The first Security Designers Forum (SDF) will take place 9-11 September 2024 in Warsaw, Poland as a dedicated setting for all those involved in design and design decision-making relating to secure documents such as banknotes and passports, to learn, exchange knowledge and develop new ideas.

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Astrid Mitchell

29 Feb. 2024

10 min read

Ancient and Modern – Using Kazakhstan’s Unique Cultural Heritage to Create Pioneering New Banknote Series

Last November, the National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK) issued a commemorative 10,000 tenge banknote to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the national currency, followed in December by the issue of the first banknote in a new note series, the 5,000 tenge.

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Astrid Mitchell

29 Feb. 2024

3 min read

Germany Launches the National Cash Forum to Stabilise the Cash Cycle

The Bundesbank (BBk) has established a National Cash Forum to allow cash cycle stakeholders to exchange information on cash issues. The BBk wants the Forum to increase cooperation and pool interests for stakeholders in order to prepare initiatives to improve and stabilise the cash cycle. In itself, the creation of the Forum signals that the BBk and stakeholders support cash.

Central Banks

Astrid Mitchell

29 Feb. 2024

2 min read

IMBISA Secures First Euro Orders

Europe’s newest printworks, Spain’s Imprenta de Billetes SA (IMBISA), has been awarded a contract to produce all €10 banknotes destined for the Eurozone in 2024 – 424.2 million in total. It will also produce a portion of the €5 notes required next year.

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Astrid Mitchell

29 Feb. 2024

5 min read

Sustainability – Essential to Banknote Design

Biobanknote has spent 12 years focusing on the protection of the environment, building expert knowledge about composting banknotes, and offers professional advisory services to central banks and producers helping them set banknote specification parameters, measurement methodologies, controls and evaluations so that the new banknotes can be more sustainable throughout the cash cycle.

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Kerre Corbin

29 Feb. 2024

2 min read

Counterfeit Corner

What is the primary reason that most countries issue a new banknote to replace an older design? To help prevent COUNTERFETING!

Counterfeiting

Tim Berridge

29 Feb. 2024

4 min read

Polymer’s Not the Problem. It’s the Green Choice

The problems with plastic are widely known – but not well understood. The truth is, sometimes plastic is necessary. And when it comes to banknotes, polymer substrate is the green choice.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

5 min read

News in Brief

Cash automation solutions provider Glory Global Solutions has announced plans to acquire 100% of the issued share capital of UK-based Flooid, provider of cloud-based unified commerce software to the retail industry, from Inflexion Private Equity Partners.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

7 min read

2024: a Year of Protecting Cash

2024 has kicked off with a focus on cash, particularly a series of initiatives by central banks to safeguard access to cash.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

2 min read

Levels of Euro Counterfeiting Remain Low in 2023

467,000 counterfeit euro banknotes were withdrawn from circulation in 2023, according to the European Central Bank, which is one of the lowest levels ever since the introduction of the euro in 2002 in proportion to total banknotes in circulation.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

2 min read

A Full Programme for HSP EMEA in Sofia

The next HSP EMEA 2023 event will be held in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, on 4-6 March 2024 and the organisers are expecting a sell-out event, with key decision makers from central banks, suppliers and printers coming together to discuss and learn about a range of topics from cash usage and trends in the region, sustainability and resilience in print to physical and digital technologies, security features and design.

Events

Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

2 min read

Note And Coin News

The People’s Bank of China (PBC) has issued a 20 yuan commemorative legal tender banknote to celebrate 2024’s Lunar Year of the Long (Chinese Dragon), which begins on 10 February.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

3 min read

Currency News Comes of Age

Currency News™ has officially ‘come of age’! That is, if reaching its 21st birthday counts as the coming of age – which in many societies it does.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

2 min read

Cash Sustainability Forum 2024

COP 28 in December last year provided evidence that the climate is changing, and we are struggling to do what is needed to mitigate or adapt to the change. Given this is the only planet we have, and we are all on this place together, sustainability is relevant to us as individuals and to our work.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

2 min read

ODDS Continues Big Debate

The programme for the third Optical and Digital Document Security™ (ODDS) conference – which takes place from 8-10 April 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal – is now available.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

2 min read

New Year, New Name!

Cash & Payment News™ (CPN) is the sister publication to Currency News™. It was first published in July 2018 as the successor to Payment News Quarterly and, while Currency News focuses on the product that is ‘cash’, CPN has concentrated on the use of cash once issued.

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Kerre Corbin

1 Feb. 2024

2 min read

Counterfeit Corner

How many counterfeit banknotes are in circulation? I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked this question. So, let’s look at how counterfeit banknotes are found and reported.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

3 min read

SPMCIL Records Strong Growth

Under the new leadership of Vijay Ranjan Singh, who was appointed its Managing Director last year, SPMCIL recently released its 2022/23 Annual Report, registering a growth of 20.35% in revenue to Rs 49.18 billion.

Companies

Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

2 min read

Central Banks and Cash Round-Up

This month’s coverage of cash information in central bank annual reports contains news from the central banks of Rwanda and Uganda.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

4 min read

In Other News…

The Central Bank of Argentina has approved the printing of 10,000 and 20,000 peso banknotes, amid continuing high inflation.

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