Poland’s Central Bank, the Naradowy Bank Polski, will issue a new collector 20 zloty banknote on the 12th April 2016 to commemorate the 1050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland. The note, which was designed by Kristin Michalczuk and printed by the Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW S.A.), contains several modern security features, including De La Rue 3D lens technology based security…
A press release from the Colombian Central Bank, the Banco De La República, has confirmed that a new 100,000 peso banknote was introduced on the 31 March 2016. The note is the first of a new series of banknotes issued by the Central Bank, and is an additional denomination to the previous banknote series which consisted…
Ukraine’s Central Bank, the National Bank of Ukraine, has manufactured its first batch of banknote paper using linen fibres. A press release issued by the Bank on 23 March 2016 details how Ukrainian banknote paper manufacturers have been investigating the possibility of manufacturing banknote paper by mixing traditional cotton fibres with other plant fibres, such…
This year’s coveted Banknote of the Year Award has been jointly awarded to the National Banks of Kazakhstan and Georgia. The award was announced by Reconnaissance during this year’s High Security Printing Europe conference in Romania on 15 March 2016. The award recognises outstanding achievement in the design, technical sophistication and security of a banknote…
According to the China Radio International’s (CRI) English service, the People’s Bank of China is to begin gradually replacing the one yuan banknote for a coin. In January, the Jinan branch of the People’s Bank of China announced that it will issue the one yuan coins instead of banknotes to commercial banks in five pilot…
According to local reports, on the 7 March 2016 the United Arab Emirates Central Bank released into circulation a new 200 dirham banknote. The new note includes tactile marks for the visually impaired, which now completes the entire banknote series following a program to upgrade the designs of existing banknotes with such features throughout 2015.…
There have been several reports in the global media regarding an increase of counterfeit banknotes in Australia. The sources relate to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Annual Report which identified a 63% increase in counterfeit banknotes withdrawn from circulation during the 2014/15 period. This equated to 37,000 notes with a nominal value of $2.0 million, which…
According to African news agency StarAfrica, the Central Bank of Lesotho has revealed that it will be launching a new M200 banknote in April this year as part of the current series of banknotes launched in 2010 featuring three generations of the Basotho kings. “The old M200 banknote featuring the portrait of the founding father of…
Former Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Bank, Peter Sands, has called on Central Banks to stop issuing high value banknotes in order to tackle crime. A report by Mr Sands produced for the Harvard Kennedy School, has highlighted the use of such banknotes by “terrorists, drug lords and tax evaders”, “The scale of such illicit…
The Philippine’s Central Bank, The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, has confirmed that a new 100-Piso banknote will begin circulating from the 1st February 2016. The note has been designed with a stronger mauve or violet colour compared with the existing banknote, to make it more distinctive. This, says the Central Bank, follows calls from the…