For June, our summary of newly-published central bank annual and other reports takes a look at Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, and India.

The National Bank of Belgium (NBB) has officially inaugurated its new cash centre – an environment-friendly facility from where all cash logistics for Belgium will be coordinated.

This month, the focus of our periodic series of articles covering cash information in central bank annual and other reports is split between Europe and Asia, with updates from Germany, Portugal, Spain, Hong Kong, Korea and Sri Lanka.

Our periodic series of articles covering cash information in central bank annual reports is playing catch-up, particularly as it is around this time of year that a number of central banks issue their annual reports for 2024 (and in some cases, previous years).

The Bank of England has appointed Sarah John, current Chief Cashier, as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO), replacing Ben Simson.

Central Banking Publications has announced all 27 winners of its 2025 awards, which are now in their 12th year. The Central Banking Awards recognise outstanding achievements in the central banking community and two of the 27 relate specifically to currency.

Continuing with the periodic series of articles covering cash information in central bank annual reports, this month we travel to Korea, and also to South America, with a review of two countries, one small and stable (Uruguay) and the other larger and not so stable (Venezuela).

In this month’s round-up covering cash information in central bank annual reports, we look at Russia, in the throes of its ‘special military operation’, and its neighbour Ukraine, the target of that operation.

Bulgaria will meet the requirements to join the eurozone by January, leaving the final decision to Bulgarian politicians, according to the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB).

In this periodic series of articles covering cash information in central bank annual reports, this month we take a look Down Under, with a review of the reports from Australia and New Zealand.