LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland will print its next generation of Scottish banknotes on plastic paper, rather than the traditional cotton. RBS, which is the second biggest issuer of ...

LONDON — The Bank of England (BoE) introduced its first plastic banknotes on Tuesday, with a new five pound entering circulation in England and Wales featuring World War Two leader Winston Churchill.

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LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - British banknotes will get a tough new makeover from 2016 when plastic replaces the traditional paper, enabling them to survive accidental spins in the washing machine, the ...

A campaign to stop the Bank of England from using animal fat to make its plastic banknotes has failed. The central bank announced Thursday that it will continue using trace amounts of tallow, which is ...