Kusters, a family-owned company founded in 1911, has been at the forefront of destruction and shred handling equipment for both banknotes and coins since the 1970s, and has an installed base of more than 700 systems in various applications in over 80 countries.

The new look of banknotes featuring the image of King Charles has been unveiled by the Bank of England. The portrait will be the only change to existing designs of £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes and will start to enter circulation from mid 2024.

In November 2022, Algeria’s central bank, the Banque d’Algérie, issued a new 2,000 dinar banknote to commemorate 60 years of Algerian independence and to mark the occasion of the 31st Summit of the League of Arab States, which was hosted in Algiers.

The Qatar Central Bank has issued a commemorative banknote to mark the FIFA World Cup, which is taking place in the country from 18 November to 20 December.

The production of US banknotes for 2023 will likely be below that of the previous two years, according to the 2023 Federal Reserve order for currency published in early November.

The Central Bank of Liberia is currently replacing its 2016 banknotes with a new series, which include updated designs and a new high denomination of L$1,000.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has said it will save as much as P2.4 billion (US$40 million) from the conversion of paper 1,000 piso banknotes to polymer due to their longer lifespan.

Currency News™ spoke to Malcolm McDowell, CEO of NPA, and Neil Sanders, Managing Director of CCL Secure, about their story, how their cooperation works, and the environmental as well as commercial benefits of their physical proximity.

Despite being the oldest company in Chile (it was founded in 1743), in the last four years the state-owned firm Casa de Moneda Chile has gone ‘from the physical to the cloud’.

The death of HM Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September was a time of mourning and reflection on her remarkable life as the second longest reigning monarch in history.