The new design ... artist on the note. Some 590 eligible visual artists were considered for the honour - about a fifth of whom are women. A brief history of currency from the British Museum ...

The Bank of England has not yet set out its six-month deadline for the paper £20 to stop being legal tender More than £24.5 billion in old fivers, tenners and twenty pound paper notes are still ...

Until 1855, when printing began, the Bank of England wrote all banknotes by hand. The British pound served as currency in the colonies of the British Empire, including Australia, New Zealand ...

“Credit rates are going up, up, up and the British pound is the envy of the world,” exclaims Mr. Banks in the 1964 classic ...

At 1,200 years of age, the British ... and each note had to be signed by one of the bank’s cashiers. Today’s banknotes developed out of these original handwritten notes. The pound is currently ...

Sterling traders are also preparing for the new ... pound is pricing in no risk premium, the downside risks for the currency would be very large," ING strategist Francesco Pesole said in a note.

The British pound plunged below $1.30 and government bond yields dived after a report showing U.K. inflation dropped sharply to its lowest level in more than three years prompted traders to ...