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South China Morning Post
Why blind smartphone users can count on new app iSEE Mobile to recognise banknotes, text and colours
South China Morning Post
With new app iSEE Mobile, which has been developed in Hong Kong for major mobile platforms, the smartphone user is able to more accurately distinguish between, for example, a HK$100 banknote and bills of other denominations in seconds. All he needs ...

Bitcoin Exchange Guide
Tangem: Smart Bitcoin Banknote Hardware Storage Cards?
Bitcoin Exchange Guide
Tangem is the first banknote for digital assets existing in the world. This project promises to resolve the issue of “physicality” of cryptocurrencies, an at the same time, offering the most secure and guaranteed space for users to trade physically ...

The Times
New banknotes turn money on its head
The Times
Ulster Bank has revealed the UK's first “vertical” banknotes. The £5 and £10 notes, which are upright in orientation, will enter circulation next year. The £5 note features pictures of Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland and Brent geese. The tenner ...

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The Star Online
Chinese man gives his girlfriend a US$50000 banknote bouquet, but did he break the law?
The Star Online
They say money can't buy you love, but that didn't deter a Chinese man who last week gave his girlfriend a huge bouquet of “flowers” made from more than 334,000 yuan (US$52,300) worth of banknotes. Photographs shared online showed the woman, from ...

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Gizmodo UK
Northern Ireland to Introduce Portrait Banknotes
Gizmodo UK
As in, it's launching banknotes that you hold, look at, and imagine having more of vertically or in portrait orientation as it were, with its forthcoming new polymer £5 and £10 banknotes set to be an amazing conversation starter with numismatists when ...

TODAYonline
Chinese man gives his girlfriend a S$70000 banknote bouquet, but did he break the law?
TODAYonline
CHONGQING — They say money can't buy you love, but that didn't deter a Chinese man who last week gave his girlfriend a huge bouquet of “flowers” made from more than 334,000 yuan (S$70,000) worth of banknotes. Photographs shared online showed ...

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Inquirer.net
4 Cameroonians nabbed in QC for faking US banknotes
Inquirer.net
Authorities have arrested four Cameroonians for involvement in alleged swindling and in the faking of U.S. banknotes in an entrapment operation in Quezon City. Two others were also arrested for trying to bribe police investigators in exchange of the ...

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South China Morning Post
Chinese man gives his girlfriend a US$50,000 banknote bouquet ...
South China Morning Post
They say money can't buy you love, but that didn't deter a Chinese man who last week gave his girlfriend a huge bouquet of “flowers” made from more than ...
Chinese man gives his girlfriend a S$70000 banknote bouquet, but did he break the law?TODAYonline

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ABC Online
Australia's banknote printers go on strike
ABC Online
The workers who print Australia's banknotes have gone on strike for a bigger wage rise. Workers at Note Printing Australia (NPA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the RBA, stopped work on Friday, demanding a 3.5 per cent pay rise, rather than the industry ...

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ABC Online
Australia's banknote printers go on strike
ABC Online
The workers who print Australia's banknotes have gone on strike for a bigger wage rise. Workers at Note Printing Australia (NPA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the RBA, stopped work on Friday, demanding a 3.5 per cent pay rise, rather than the industry ...

The Slovak Spectator
Souvenir banknote featuring a tank sold out in record time
The Slovak Spectator
Inspired by France, the Banská Bystrica-based Slovak National Uprising (SNP) Museum issued an official euro souvenir banknote in a limited edition of 5,000 copies. The interest in these banknotes was enormous when 3,000 copies sold out in the record ...

Victoria News
West Shore resident given unusable money withdrawn from circulation
Victoria News
Upon his arrival in the U.K., Collins went to the grocery store and when he went to pay, he pulled out a banknote his father had given him, but the cashier said the money couldn't be accepted because it was out of circulation. Collins pulled out ...

Sky News
First for UK as 'vertical' banknotes shown off ahead of 2019 release
Sky News
First for UK as 'vertical' banknotes shown off ahead of 2019 release. The unusual £5 and £10 notes designed by Ulster Bank can be spent across the UK and will also contain new security features. 22:18, UK, Thursday 24 May 2018. Ulster bank notes.
Ulster Bank unveils 'vertical' banknotesThe Irish News
Ulster Bank embraces nature with new polymer banknotesIrish Times

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The Irish News
Ulster Bank unveils 'vertical' banknotes
The Irish News
ULSTER Bank has revealed new polymer banknotes that will have a design feature unique to currency in Britain and Ireland - they will be 'vertical'. The new notes, which were revealed today in the bank's Andersonstown branch in west Belfast's Westwood ...
First for UK as 'vertical' banknotes shown off ahead of 2019 releaseSky News
Ulster Bank embraces nature with new polymer banknotesIrish Times

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Asharq Al-awsat English
Saudi Arabia Launches Riyal Coins to Replace Banknotes
Asharq Al-awsat English
The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) will start withdrawing SR1 banknotes from the market from Thursday, SAMA has said. In a statement, SAMA announced issuing its sixth edition, which was developed during the reign of the Custodian of the Two ...
Saudi Riyal coins to gradually replace notes | Arab NewsArab News

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Exclusive Reportage
Polymer Banknotes Market Analysis and Business Outlook 2018 to 2021
Exclusive Reportage
Global Polymer Banknotes Market Industry Analysis and Outlook (2018-2021) presents an in-depth assessment of the Polymer Banknotes including enabling technologies, key trends, market drivers, challenges, standardization, regulatory landscape, ...

AZERTAC News
CBA presented 200-manat banknotes to appear in Azerbaijan from ...
AZERTAC News
Presentation of coins issued on the occasion of the 95th birthday of the national leader Heydar Aliyev and the 100th anniversary of the creation of ADR, as well ...
Azerbaijan's Central Bank issues 200 AZN banknotes | Vestnik ...vestnik kavkaza

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AZERTAC News
CBA presented 200-manat banknotes to appear in Azerbaijan from next month
AZERTAC News
Baku, May 24, AZERTAC. Presentation of coins issued on the occasion of the 95th birthday of the national leader Heydar Aliyev and the 100th anniversary of the creation of ADR, as well as new banknotes worth 200 manats, was held at the Central Bank of ...

Trend News Agency
Central Bank of Uzbekistan to withdraw old, issue new coins and banknotes
Trend News Agency
Baku, Azerbaijan, May 23. By Fikret Dolukhanov – Trend: The Central Bank of Uzbekistan is planning to issue coins of a new design worth 50, 100, 200 and 500 soums, the press service of the bank reported. Coins worth 50 and 100 soums and banknotes ...

Presentation of new banknotes to be held later this year – Armenian central bank head
ArmBanks
YEREVAN, May 23. /ARKA/. Arthur Javadyan, the head of the Central Bank of Armenia, said Tuesday newly designed composite banknotes will be put in circulation after the presentation, which will take place by the end of this year, Hraparak reports.