Titled ‘Change’, the Royal Australian Mint’s 2023 annual report is aptly named for an organisation that experienced multiple significant changes over the course of last year, including the introduction of the new royal effigy on its circulating coins and the extensive renovation of its visitor centre.

New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has cleared the way for Evergreen NZ Holdings to acquire 100% of the shares of ACM New Zealand. Evergreen already owns Armourguard, the country’s dominant supplier of CIT and related service, and the acquisition of ACM from its parent Linfox Armaguard will create a monopoly.

De La Rue has announced that it will sell its Authentication Division to Crane NXT for a cash consideration representing an enterprise value of £300 million. The sale will enable it to pay off a revolving credit facility due for repayment next July and significantly reduce the deficit in its legacy defined pension benefit scheme, leaving it focus on its core currency business.

China Banknote Printing and Minting (CBPM) has been implementing a series of clean production and carbon reduction measures in the production of raw materials such as paper, thread, and ink, such as using-toxicity auxiliary materials and reducing pollutants, in order to make the production of the renminbi and other currencies more environmentally friendly.

In last month’s issue of Currency News, we provided details of Oberthur Fiduciaire’s new house note series, on the theme of the Art of Butterflies, comprising five different designs and five different security threads printed on one sheet.

In this new periodic feature for Currency News™ we report on the latest tenders and contract awards for banknotes, coins and related services.

On 3 October, the Argentinean media went wild announcing that Milei’s never- a-dull-moment government would be restructuring and, possibly closing, the Argentine Mint (Casa de Moneda República Argentina – CAMOAR).

In the first half of 2024, Spectra Systems achieved sales of $22.74 million, an increase of 96% compared to the first half of 2023.

At the Global Currency Forum, Daniel Schwarzbach, Innovation Director at Orell Füssli Security Printing (OFS), unveiled the company’s new tool for measuring the environmental impact of banknotes – BEES® (Banknote Environmental Evaluation Software), which it believes is the first design-oriented LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) tool not just for banknotes, but for any sector.

The saying ‘made of money’ is often used as an idiom to describe wealthy people. In the case of De La Rue, its interpretation of the term under its new #madeofmoney campaign is literal – namely, consumer items that are made out of recycled polymer banknote waste.