In Other News…

• The Central Bank of Honduras has announced that a new 200 lempira note will be issued in September. Notes of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500 lempiras currently circulate in Honduras. The last note to be introduced – the 500 – was in 1997.

The contract for the new notes has been awarded to Giesecke+Devrient and will include a ‘very novel’ (and as yet unspecified) security feature. Around 20 million notes will be issued.

• The National Bank of Georgia will issue new 5 and 20 lari (GEL) banknotes next month. Their designs are the same as the current notes (issued in 2017 and 2016 respectively), but the background colours have been modified to avoid confusion between the two.