Laos’ Parliament has removed Bounleua Sinxayvoravong as Governor of the Bank of the Lao PDR, a position he held since 2022.

In this periodic series of articles covering cash information in central bank annual reports, this month it is the turn of Malaysia, Thailand and Tunisia.

Belgium is one of many countries with a coin circulation problem, and the Treasury has launched a social media campaign – #spendyourchange – encouraging citizens to use their loose change.

Danmarks Nationalbank has provided details of the themes for its new banknotes series, which will consist of four denominations – 50, 100, 200 and 500 krone – and will be issued from 2028 onwards, replacing the current 2009 series featuring Danish bridges and ancient artefacts.

In this periodic series of articles covering cash information in central bank annual reports, we turn our attention this month to England, Iceland, Kazakhstan and Switzerland.

A team from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has received the Bank of Canada’s counterfeit deterrence award for its work analysing international shipments, leading to the seizure of large volumes of counterfeit banknotes.

In recent weeks, Da Afghanistan Bank (the country’s central bank) has incinerated c. 2 billion worn-out Afghani banknotes. In 2023, it collected and incinerated approximately 5.2 billion banknotes.

After a gap, this month we return to the periodic series of articles covering cash information in central bank annual reports, with news from Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, the ECB, Ghana, Nepal, Philippines and Saudi Arabia.

The Federal Council of Switzerland has appointed Martin Schlegel as the new chairman of the governing board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB). He succeeds Thomas Jordan at the helm, who is retiring after more than 12 years in the position.

The Bank of England has now put into circulation the new series of notes bearing the portrait of King Charles III.