Banknotes and Coins - from Cradle-to-Grave

Currency News is a unique and comprehensive one-stop source of information covering the specification, design, production, distribution and management in circulation of banknotes and coins, from ‘cradle-to-grave’.


Founded in 2003, Currency News™ pioneered the delivery of news, analysis and commentary on the currency industry and continues to be essential reading for anyone involved in specifying, issuing, producing or handling currency. In 12 information-packed issues per year, supplemented by a bi-weekly news update, it covers all aspects of currency, with a focus on the events, standards, companies, people and technologies shaping the evolution and development of banknotes and coins around the world.


Currency News is published by Currency Publications Ltd, a joint venture between Reconnaissance International and Currency Research. Along with Currency News, we also publish Cash & Payment News and Coin & Mint News, along with regular supplements, special reports and directories.


What Currency News Covers

  • Banknotes and coins - new issues and designs (circulating and commemorative)
  • Government - legislation, directives, standards
  • Central banks – policies, programmes, statistics
  • Markets - national and regional profiles, macro-economic developments, trends and projections
  • Companies - mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances, financial reviews
  • People - key appointments, interviews
  • Technologies - substrates and features, machinery, hardware and software
  • Production - pre-press, printing and minting, automation, finishing
  • Processing - handling, sorting, counting, verification, destruction
  • Cash management - transport, vending, dispensing, recycling
  • Enforcement - counterfeiting, detection, seizures, counterfeit statistics
  • Strategies - optimisation, outsourcing, efficiencies, sustainability

Who Should Read Currency News

  • Treasury departments, central banks and monetary authorities
  • State and commercial banknote printers and mints
  • Designers
  • Suppliers of substrates, features and authentication technologies
  • Pre-press, printing, finishing and inspection equipment manufacturers
  • Suppliers of cash processing, handling and verification systems
  • Cash-in-transit and cash management organisations
  • Manufacturers and distributors of cash accepting, dispensing, recycling and degradation systems
  • Cash academics
  • Suppliers of specialist services

What Makes Currency News Special

  • Focus - dedicated solely to currency
  • Comprehensive – ‘cradle-to-grave’ coverage
  • In-depth - news, analysis and commentary
  • Expert - editorial team drawn from the highest echelons of the industry
  • Current – up-to-date with the latest information
  • Value:
    • 12 information-packed issues a year
    • bi-weekly updates
    • free access to the CurrencyCheck database
    • tender alerts
    • complimentary or discounted special reports
    • discounts on Coin & Mint News and Cash & Payment News
  • Independent - separates fact from fiction to provide impartial and authoritative insight

Editorial Team

Currency News is compiled by a team comprising some of the most authoritative and experienced voices in the business. They include the Advisory Board and a network of researchers and writers from key sectors of the currency industry around the world.


The editor is Astrid Mitchell, who spent 25 years in marketing and strategic development for De La Rue, OpSec and Bundesdruckerei prior to joining Reconnaissance International in 2002, where she is now CEO.


The Board of Advisor comprises:

Antti Heinonen – formerly Chief Casher at the Bank of Finland, then Director of Banknotes at the European Central Bank and, latterly, Chairman of the Banknote Ethics Initiative.

Lahcen Hadouni: formerly managing Director of Dar-as Sikkah, the banknote printing subsidiary Bank al-Maghrib, and currently Project Director with Philipateer and Steering Committee Member of the think-tank CashEssentials.

Concha Jiménez - former Director General of Cash and Branches and Board member of Banco de España.

Michael Lambert – former Associate Director of the Federal Reserve System, with responsibility for US currency issue.

Tsuyoshi Uematsu - former Director of the International Relations Office of Japan’s banknote printer, the National Printing Bureau.

Richard Wall: formerly Managing Director of the Currency Department at the Bank of Canada, and now Chairman of the International Association of Currency Affairs.

Lydia Yip – formerly Head of Currency for the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and now an advisor to central banks.


Editorial Policy

  • Currency News is totally impartial and does not favour any organization, technology or region.
  • Quality, accuracy and editorial integrity are paramount and all information is fully checked before publication.
  • Currency News welcomes input from individual organizations, but only on the understanding that material is only considered for inclusion if it without bias, accurate and relevant to the readership.
  • Currency News aims to support the development of currency by fostering communications and providing information. The editors acknowledge the importance of discretion and, in seeking to advance the interests of the community, does not publish articles which could be damaging to any organization or individual unless this information is already in the public domain or it is in the wider interests of the currency community to do so.
  • In furtherance of its independence, Currency News does not carry advertising.