From today, Innovia Security, the manufacturer of Guardian™ polymer banknote substrate, will operate under the new name of CCL Secure. This follows an announcement made last December advising that The Smithfield Group, the managing shareholder of Innovia Group, had accepted an offer from Canada’s CCL Industries Inc. to acquire the company for CAD $1.3 billion (US $952.7m). Speaking…
The Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) have unveiled the design of the new 5 Rufiyaa banknote. The new polymer banknote is part of the Ran Dhihafaheh note series which launched on 1 November 2016 and circulated on 26 January 2016, consisting of the 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 denominations. The new polymer 5 replaces the last…
The Swiss National Bank, the central bank of Switzerland, has today revealed the new 20-franc banknote design The 20-franc banknote is the second of the latest ninth series of banknotes to be issued in Switzerland, following the release of the award winning 50-franc note in April last year. The new note will be issued into circulation…
The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) has announced the new Swiss 50 banknote as the winner of the Bank Note of The Year Award 2016. The 50-franc banknote was issued by the Swiss National Bank in Switzerland in April 2016, the first denomination to be circulated from the country’s ninth banknote series. Printed by Orell Fussli Security Printing…
The Reserve Bank of Fiji has issued a new banknote and a 50-cent coin celebrating the country’s gold medal win at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics in the men’s Rugby Sevens – the country’s first ever Olympic medal. By the time the Fijian team had made it to the Olympic final in August last year, the…
The Bank of Canada (BOC) has unveiled a commemorative ten dollar banknote celebrating the 150th anniversary of Confederation. The new $10 banknote was unveiled on Friday 7th April by the Bank’s Governor Stephen S. Poloz and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance Ginette Petitpas Taylor at a ceremony at the Bank’s head office in Ottawa.…
The fourth banknote of the Europa series, the euro €50, enters circulation today containing a variety of new, modern security features to help combat the threat of banknote counterfeiting. The new euro €50 banknote denomination includes KURZ’s KINEGRAM ReView® holographic foil stripe including a portrait window. The window displays a portrait of Greek mythology figure Europa, visible on…
Following an announcement last November, De La Rue opens its Global Centre of Excellence for Security Print on the European island of Malta. The Centre was opened last Thursday, 30 March 2017, by The Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat. According to De La Rue, it has been designed to “deliver the next generation of…
The Central Bank of Nicaragua has issued a 1000 córdobas banknote into circulation commemorating the centenary of the death of famous poet Rubén Darío. A press release dated 20 March 2017 from the Banco Central de Nicaragua confirms that the commemorative banknote was released into circulation three days earlier, on 17 March. The banknote is a limited…
Fortress Paper Ltd has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Landqart AG, has entered into an agreement with a fourth customer to use its banknote substrate, Durasafe®. Details of the new customer have not yet been made public, but they join the list of countries using Durasafe® within their banknotes – namely Morocco, Kazakhstan and Switzerland. Durasafe® is a banknote paper…