It is not uncommon for regular holidaymakers to have a stash of foreign currency leftover from previous trips - with the plan of using it when they next jet abroad ...

His comments follow claims that the blue and grey €5 note in particular lacks the resilience of, say, the Deutschmark or Dutch Guilder. Solbes said it was still too early to report definitively on the ...

Police in Spain have issued an alert over fake Euro notes used as film props which are appearing all over the country. The money, in denominations of five and ten Euros, looks authentic but bears the ...

Italian MEP Mario Borghezio says a depiction of Christianity or God “should have been seen as indis-pensable, given the current process of globalisation which is gradually wiping out our traditions ...

Police have busted a "sophisticated" factory printing fake copies of the new €20 banknote on an industrial scale - months after it was updated with new security measures to thwart counterfeiters.

IF you’re heading abroad this summer then it’s worth taking the time to check the banknotes you receive in change aren’t fake. The introduction of the new 12-sided £1 coin – being hailed as “the most ...

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British bank wholesalers have withdrawn 500 euro notes from sale because they are fuelling organised crime. The decision to end trading was made after police found nine out of every 10 of the notes in ...

Simply sign up to the Currencies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The US dollar bill’s standing as the world’s favourite form of cash is being usurped by the five-year-old euro. The ...

The design for the new €100 and €200 bank notes has been unveiled, ahead of entering circulation in May next year. Both notes have new security features which are aimed at making them more difficult ...

The high-value euro notes are being withdrawn from production because of their links to criminality Swiss prosecutors are investigating why tens of thousands of euros were flushed down toilets in ...