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April 2026
House notes (also known as concept, sample, or specimen notes) are non-circulating, design-focused banknotes produced by banknote printers and substrate and feature suppliers to promote their design and technical capabilities, introduce their latest features and/or celebrate special events, anniversaries, and other milestones.
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February 2025
The backdrop to this paper is the European Central Bank’s Product Environmental Footprint study, which found that 82% of the environmental impact of banknotes happened post-issue; hence a paper dedicated to exploring cash recirculation and local recycling from every angle.
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May 2024
Cash Industry’s Most Comprehensive Directory Back by popular demand, the latest edition of The Directory of Currency & Technology Suppliers is an essential resource for central banks and issuers, printers and mints, and everyone in the cash cycle to identify suppliers and partners. The latest edition is the seventh since its launch in 2004.
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February 2023
The Cash & Payments Sustainability Forum™ in Edinburgh was an industry first. As such it was very much an experiment, a step into the unknown. Following on from the November 2021 white paper, ‘Cash: A Roadmap to Sustainability’, and a series of conference seminars throughout 2022, the goal was to take a systematic and in-depth look at sustainability for central banks, cash producers and the cash management sector.
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November 2022
This paper seeks to explain the options that central banks have for disposing of banknotes well, following the hierarchy of options shown here.
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October 2021
Cash: A Roadmap to Sustainability', a new report highlighting the progress made by the global cash industry to secure a sustainable future for cash, is now available to download and read.
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December 2020
An essential guide to the technology behind and use of security threads for banknotes. The first use of a security threads as we know it was in 1940. 80 years later, and the security thread has evolved to become one of the most successful and innovative features to secure banknotes - - combining high public recognition value and aesthetic appeal with machine-readability and cost efficiency.
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