New State of the Art Cash Centre for Angola

President João Lourenço of Angola has officially opened the National Bank of Angola’s new high-tech cash centre – Casa do Kwanza – in the capital, Luanda for the storage, processing and distribution of the country’s currency, the kwanza. The cash centre has been four years in the making, at a budgeted cost of c. Kz 33 billion, and will be able to process up to 4 million banknotes daily.

The construction of the complex of the ten buildings that make up Casa do Kwanza began in 2021.

Occupying a 10 hectare site, it includes an administrative building of nearly 7,500 sqm, a 10,760 sqm building for the processing and destruction of banknotes and coins, a fully automated vault and a series of technical support buildings.

The design, supply and management of the implementation of the infrastructure project was undertaken by Giesecke+Devrient (G+D), from the building concept, IT and security requirements to the cash handling processes. This included equipping the building with highly automated systems for the efficient and secure processing of banknotes, state-oftheart IT and security infrastructure, and a multi-level vault to store banknotes and coins, as well as gold, diamonds and works of art.