Two Currency Winners in Central Banking Awards 2025

Central Banking Publications has announced all 27 winners of its 2025 awards, which are now in their 12th year. The Central Banking Awards recognise outstanding achievements in the central banking community and two of the 27 relate specifically to currency.

First is the Currency Manager of the Year award, which went to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for the steps it has taken to ensure the country has an adequate supply of stocks, despite a shrinking supplier base (for paper), while transitioning to polymer notes.

BSP has partnered with Bundesdruckerei to collaborate on currency management and production of security features for polymer notes, and is also working with the Banque de France on strengthening the security and production of paper notes, as well as currency demand forecasting, staff training, counterfeit analysis and R&D. In the meantime, it continues to work closely with Note Printing Australia on its new polymer banknotes.