News & Notes Volume I, No. 42

• Crowdfunding the Exeter Pound (Exeter Daily).
• Time banking and mutual aid , the article is just a bit old (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Although this is part of the local currency movement, their goal is to reduce the need for money.
• A "Lady Lavery" note up for auction (The Irish Times).
• Protesting Prime Minister David Cameron's links to the Panama Papers, they shower his car with paper money (LBC). Multiple videos.
• Colombia now has a 100,000 Peso note (The City Paper).
• San Francisco plans a surcharge if you pay your streetcar fare in cash (SFGate).
• In a cashless society, government powers of surveillance and coercion expand (The Atlantic). A good read.
• Using fingerprints as currency in Japan (The Telegraph).
• Submissions to the Bank of Canada regarding a woman on the currency: 18,000 and counting (Times Colonist). Here's the approved list so far (Bank of Canada). And more discussion here (COINWeek).
• More on Vietnam's souvenir banknote (Tuoitrenews).
• Sir Apirana Ngata's family likes the new NZ currency (TVNZ). Maori designs on the new NZ$ 100 (Stuff.co).
• The new CHF 50 note (Expatica).
• New notes for South Sudan (Africa Report).
• Ukraine's new 500-Hryvnia note (Ukraine Today).
• This ATM will dispense Brixton Pounds (Brixtonblog).
• The Colorado marijuana industry and "banknote recycling" (Summit Daily).
• Archives International Auction, April 11-13 (ARTFIX Daily).
• Exhibit on the early currency of Texas (Coin World).
• Spink currency auction (COINWeek).
• Why Zimbabwe is limiting cash withdrawals (Footprint to Africa).
• Circulation of Korean Won hits new highs (Arirang News).
• "Constitutional Tender" bill advances in Arizona (Tenth Amendment Center).
• South Korean hunk appears on Joss money, but his female fans are unhappy (Asia One). And here (Mashable). "In Cambodia, the Ghosts Prefer Dollars" (New York Times).
• More 10.000 Yen notes for those cash-hoarding Japanese (Japan Times).
• BOOK: Howard A. Daniel, Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, Coins & Currency, 2nd edition (Coin World).
• OBITUARY: Joel Kurtzman, author of "The Death of Money" (New York Times).

                                     Now featuring Kowhaiwhai (Martin de Ruyter)

• The future of security printing (WhatTheyThink?)
• Innovia Group's BOPP film (Packaging News).
• Smithers Pira on the security printing industry (Security Document World).
• Indian banknotes to be produced in the city of Nashik (Times of India).
• 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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• The Securency International bribery scandal in Nigeria (The News). Bribery is a "cost of doing business" (Sydney Morning Herald). And here (Australian Financial Review).
• Did De La Rue pay a bribe in 2002? (NYOOOZ). Fallout from the Panama Papers revelation (The Indian Express).
• The new RMB 100 note has already been counterfeited (The Beijinger). Apparently the fakes are North Korean (UPI).
• He tried to swallow the evidence (ANSA).
• Outflows of Chinese cash through Hong Kong include "currency mules" (Global Post).
• Complacency about counterfeiting in Namibia (The New Era).
• More about those Peruvian counterfeiters (The Guardian).
• How the counterfeiting problem looks from Vermont (Seven Days).
• Fake Kuwaiti Dinars (Gulf News).
• More high jinks from 50 Cent (New York Daily News).
• Cars, Cash, Cocaine, and Ecstasy (Sarasota Patch). All in one convenient picture.

                                                 Look at me, I'm fake! (UPI)