Euro Banknote

The European Central Bank launched a survey today asking citizens to weigh in on the redesign of euro banknotes, with rivers, birds and European culture among the shortlisted themes.

The European Central Bank (ECB) is set to give the green light to a multi-year project to create a digital version of the Euro. An electronic equivalent of banknotes and coins, the digital Euro will likely be a digital wallet that euro zone citizens can keep at the ECB.

There is no significant risk of catching the coronavirus from euro banknotes, the European Central Bank said Tuesday, citing lab tests that showed the germs survived far longer on other surfaces.

The new notes with enhanced security features will offer better protection against forgeries, officials told Reuters, which was given rare access to see the Bank of Italy's Banknote Printing Department at work.

The Bank of England on Thursday unveiled the design of a new 5 pound (6.5 euros, $7.2) banknote bearing the image of wartime leader Winston Churchill at an event in his family's ancestral home of Blenheim Palace.

The banknotes were wet, but Austrian police are not treating the find of more than 100,000 euros found in the Danube river as a classic case of money laundering.

With withdrawals from cash machines rationed to a maximum of 60 euros a day and the banks shut since last week, supplies of banknotes have been dwindling fast.

Its statement, which looked futile given the lines of people eager to get money from cash machines, pointed to concerns that the supply of banknotes was quickly diminishing.

The European Central Bank launched a survey today asking citizens to weigh in on the redesign of euro banknotes, with rivers, birds and European culture among the shortlisted themes.

The European Central Bank (ECB) is set to give the green light to a multi-year project to create a digital version of the Euro. An electronic equivalent of banknotes and coins, the digital Euro will likely be a digital wallet that euro zone citizens can keep at the ECB.

There is no significant risk of catching the coronavirus from euro banknotes, the European Central Bank said Tuesday, citing lab tests that showed the germs survived far longer on other surfaces.

The new notes with enhanced security features will offer better protection against forgeries, officials told Reuters, which was given rare access to see the Bank of Italy's Banknote Printing Department at work.

The Bank of England on Thursday unveiled the design of a new 5 pound (6.5 euros, $7.2) banknote bearing the image of wartime leader Winston Churchill at an event in his family's ancestral home of Blenheim Palace.

The banknotes were wet, but Austrian police are not treating the find of more than 100,000 euros found in the Danube river as a classic case of money laundering.

With withdrawals from cash machines rationed to a maximum of 60 euros a day and the banks shut since last week, supplies of banknotes have been dwindling fast.

Its statement, which looked futile given the lines of people eager to get money from cash machines, pointed to concerns that the supply of banknotes was quickly diminishing.