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Reserve Bank of Australia reveals $20 banknote design

Banknotes, NewsBy SMI 22/02/2019

The Reserve Bank of Australia has revealed the design of its Next Generation $20 banknote, which will begin circulating in October 2019. The design of the polymer banknote continues to feature portraits of Mary Reibey, an 18th century successful business woman also known for her support of charity, religion and education, and Reverend John Flynn, pioneer of the…

Bank of Canada circulates vertical $10 banknote

Banknotes, NewsBy SMI 20/11/2018

The Bank of Canada has begun circulating its latest $10 banknote, with its vertical design featuring social justice icon Viola Desmond. Like all Bank of Canada banknotes, the latest $10 note is printed on CCL Secure’s Guardian® polymer substrate and contains similar key security features to the existing series. This includes a clear window including a holographic foil,…

England £50 to be printed on polymer substrate

Banknotes, NewsBy SMI 13/10/2018

The Bank of England has announced that the new £50 banknote will be printed on polymer, joining the rest of the banknote series. The news was announced via a press release issued by the central bank today. Other denominations of the latest banknote series issued by the Bank of England are already printed on Guardian®…

Australia circulates Next Generation $10 banknote

Banknotes, NewsBy SMI 20/09/2017

The Reserve Bank of Australia has begun to circulate the new $10 banknote, the second of the Bank’s Next Generation banknote family. The design of the new $10 banknote continues to feature illustrations of Australian writer and journalist Dame Mary Gilmore, and Australian bush poet, journalist and author AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson. The new note also retains the same size…

New Ten Pound Banknote enters circulation

Banknotes, NewsBy SMI 14/09/2017

The Bank of England has today started to circulate the new ten pound banknote, a polymer note featuring the novelist Jane Austin. Image courtesy of the Bank of England. It is the second of the new series of polymer banknotes to be issued by the Bank of England, following the release of the £5 banknote on…

Vanuatu launches new 5,000 polymer banknote

Banknotes, NewsBy SMI 31/07/2017

The Reserve Bank of Vanuatu has issued the next denomination of their polymer banknote family, the 5,000-vatu printed on Guardian™ substrate. The new family of polymer banknotes are being gradually circulated. The first denomination to be issued was the 10,000-vatu, circulated on the 28 July 2010. The 200, 1,000 and 2,000-vatu denominations were all released in…

CCL Secure wins award for polymer banknote substrate Guardian™

News, TechnologyBy SMI 23/06/2017

CCL Secure has won the CFI.co 2017 ‘Most Innovative Banknote Technology Global’ award for its Guardian™ polymer banknote substrate. CFI.co will run a feature on the award and CCL Secure, formerly Innovia Security until their acquisition by CCL Industries last month, in an upcoming edition of its journal. The CFI.co Judges’ Report recognises that Guardian™ has 4%…

Innovia Security now operating as CCL Secure

News, TechnologyBy SMI 15/05/2017

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…

Mauritania issues new Guardian® polymer banknote

Banknotes, NewsBy SMI 05/12/2014

Innovia Security have issued a statement advising that the Central Bank of Mauritania has issued its new 1000 Ouguiya banknote printed on Guardian® polymer substrate. Guardian® is now used in 78 banknote denominations, by 24 countries. The Central Bank has reduced the size of the 1000 Ouguiya banknote to 142mm by 70mm which, it says,…

RBA sells its stake in Securency to Innovia Films

Banknotes, Currency, NewsBy SMI 12/02/2013

It has today been announced that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has signed an agreement with UK based company Innovia Films to sell its 50% share in Securency International Pty Ltd. Innovia, who supplies Securency International with a key film from which they make Guardian® polymer banknote substrate, joined the RBA in a 50/50…