Although an increasing number of countries are switching to sturdier, harder-to-copy polymer banknotes, the things still are being counterfeited. A new technology could help weed those fakes out, by ...

In 2016 the Bank of England introduced plastic (polymer) banknotes, alongside 50 other countries that use polymer banknotes Counterfeit polymer banknotes on the streets have increased over the last ...

One of the reasons countries around the world are transitioning from paper to plastic polymer banknotes was the promise they’d be harder to counterfeit—but it didn’t take long for fakes to proliferate ...

The need to preserve physical cash has led to the innovative use of polymer as a durable, secure, and sustainable alternative material for banknote production. The first recorded use of polymer notes ...

Is Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) phasing out the use of polymer banknotes in Nigeria? Based on the publication by the Sun newspaper (30th Dec 2016), the CBN did not award contract for the printing of ...

Since the introduction of plastic (polymer) banknotes in 2016, the number of counterfeit notes on the streets has increased, however, researchers have developed a novel technique called Polymer ...