Bank of Ireland UK is to introduce its first polymer banknotes in the North from next February, with the £5 and £10 notes the first to go into circulation. According to Ian Sheppard, managing director ...

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 ...

The U.K. will start printing banknotes on plastic instead of cotton paper in 2016 given "overwhelmingly supportive" public backing for the switch, the Bank of England said Wednesday. The change will ...

A new plastic £50 note featuring the inventor and codebreaker Alan Turing has entered circulation today (23 June). It will replace the current paper design featuring entrepreneur Matthew Boulton and ...