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…
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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…
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued press releases confirming that new ₹100 and ₹500 banknotes are soon to be issued. The new notes will still form part of the Mahatma Gandhi series (2005) and will be similar in their design to their predecessors. The new banknotes will have numerals of ascending size in…
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Argentina’s Central Bank said on Friday that it would issue higher denomination banknotes during the next two years, addressing rising inflation rates within the country. The highest banknote is currently the 100 peso note, but the Central Bank of Argentina aims to start circulating new 200 and 500 peso banknotes by the end of 2016…
DetailsToronto based payments company nanoPay have acquired the digital currency platform MintChip™ from the Royal Canadian Mint. MintChip™ is “a digital replacement for cash” and, the company says, with backing from the Government of Canada, is the first regulator-friendly digital cash platform. “As a digital payment technology with many of the attributes of cash, MintChip™…
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On 25th December 2015 the National Bank of Ukraine presented the new 500 hryvnia banknote, which is to enter circulation on 11 April 2016. The 500 denomination is the latest to be revealed, as part of a project launched in 2012 to revamp all note denominations released between 2003 and 2007. “The main reason behind…
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