News & Notes Volume I, No. 41

• A good introduction to the furor over the "Panama Papers" (McClatchy). While this is basically about money laundering, it will certainly give rise to further debate about the use of currency in financial transactions.
• Highlights of the Singapore International Coin Fair (Numismatica).
• Zimbabwe lacks cash (All Africa).
• As elections near, the amount of cash circulating in India spikes (The Financial Express).
• "Ninjah" will be on the Cardiff Pound (WalesOnline).
• "Banknotes of the East Caribbean States" (Coin Update).
• "Against Currency Prohibitionism" (Cato Institute).
• Slang about money (Hartford Courant).
• Women's work as depicted on currency (Smithsonian, via E-Sylum).
• The Qingming festival (Xinhua). Burning fake paper money caused a forest fire in China (China Topix). Tomb Sweeping Day (Reuters).
• Switzerland to shrink the size of its banknotes, presumably not to facilitate currency smuggling (COINWeek).  How the Swiss regard their currency (Bloomberg). "Cash is property and cash is freedom."
• April Fools: Texas to issue "Redbacks" (Twitter).
• A banknote standard for anorexia in China (The Sun).
• An accidental wad of cash (The Journal Gazette).
• Bank of Thailand expects increased note demand during the Songkran festival (The Nation).
• Championing Sara Corning to appear on Canada's currency (Yarmouth County Vanguard). Or Elizabeth Bruyere (Ottawa Sun). How about poutines? (Global News). And twenty-two women who might be candidates, a photoshopped gallery from Anne of Green Gables to Hayley Wickenheiser (Huffpost Canada).
• Offered $1000 cash, she turned it down (Huffpost Australia).

                     The burning of Joss Money on Tomb Sweeping Day (Reuters).

• Survey of banknote printing industry (Chicago Tribune).
• Nanotech Security a 'buy' (Cantech Letter). More on Nanotech's OTF technology (Photonics).
• The Banknote Conference, May 23-26, Washington D.C. (Banknote Conference) Here is a description of the presentations to be made there.
• The Future of Cash Conference, April 11-12, Paris (Future of Cash). Here is the program.
• 4th International Banknote Designers Conference, September 12-15, Paris (International Banknote Designers Association).

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• Lord Lucan's bounced cheques (Mirror).
• He struck her with a stack of money (The Smoking Gun).
• North Korea's "supernotes" (COINWeek).
• The  £50 notes were all circulated by young boys, but who was their Fagin? (Yorkshire Post).
• Legal documents pertaining to counterfeiting from the Eric P. Neuman Collection auction (E-Sylum).
• By trying to track cash, the authorities drive its use underground (International Business Times).