(1) He also announced that the Bank would carry out a review of the process for selecting the historical figures who appear on banknotes, to ensure that a diverse range of figures is represented.
(2) Bank of England urged to make new £5 note vegan-friendly Read more It decided earlier this year not to withdraw plastic £5 banknotes from circulation and said it would push ahead with production of the new £10 polymer note featuring Jane Austen, which is to be issued in September.
(3) In a letter to the Conservative MP Mary Macleod, Carney said he had raised the issue of women's representation on banknotes with colleagues on Monday, his first day in the job.
(4) There’s also extended soft-wear contact lenses, Aerogard insect repellent and polymer banknotes.
(5) As well as a “bimetallic” construction similar to the existing £2 coin, the new £1 will feature new banknote-strength security pioneered at the Royal Mint’s headquarters in Llantrisant, South Wales.
(6) Their achievements knock spots off Austen and most of the men currently on our banknotes too.
(7) Their high-profile campaigns – to have women on banknotes , challenge online misogyny and banish Page 3 , for example – though necessary and praiseworthy, do not reflect the most pressing needs of the majority of women, black and minority-ethnic women included.
(8) In the early hours of 8 August 1963, beside a railway line in Buckinghamshire, Bruce Reynolds and 14 other men halted the Glasgow-London night express at Bridego bridge, broke into a Royal Mail coach and, in a swift and perfectly executed operation, departed with £2,631,684 in used banknotes.
(9) HSBC offered instead to provide him or a colleague with sterling banknotes in Switzerland, recording, “what he decided to do with friends of his … was his affair”.
(10) The structure is renowned across the world as an incredible feat of engineering so it was a fitting choice for a ground-breaking new banknote."
(11) Sir Mervyn King, the Bank's former governor, had let slip to MPs that the author of Pride and Prejudice was "waiting in the wings" as a potential candidate to feature on a banknote, and his successor, Mark Carney, confirmed on Wednesday that she would feature, probably from 2017.
(12) Why don't we have one of our great women scientists like Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and a suffragette like Emmeline Pankhurst on our banknotes?"
(13) Carney launched a public consultation on polymer banknotes , seen as cleaner and more durable, shortly after arriving at the Bank this summer.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bank clerk counts Chinese banknotes in Huaibei, Anhui province.
(15) Given the unfolding scandal gripping the City, it seems more pertinent to say that if you spot a banknote sticking out of someone's pocket then your eyes are deceiving you – or else somebody else would have pinched it.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Caroline Criado-Perez received threats via Twitter after her campaign to have Jane Austen featured on banknotes.
(17) The Bank of England is considering introducing plastic-like polymer banknotes in Britain.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The new banknotes are printed on polymer, a thin flexible plastic film, which is seen as more durable and more secure.
(19) Amid all the big decisions, there's one other burning responsibility – the issue of whose images should adorn the banknotes in the purses and back pockets of the nation.
(20) India's banknote ban: how Modi botched the policy yet kept his political capital Read more The decisive win was interpreted as a broad endorsement of Modi’s decision last November to invalidate 86% of all currency in circulation as part of an anti-corruption drive.
Bankroll
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(1) Medicare not corporate bankroll January 6, 2016 “Medicare is not designed to be a guaranteed bankable revenue for corporations, nor is a taxpayer-funded payment like this provided to cross-subsidise other costs of doing business for pathology companies,” she said on Wednesday.
(2) When Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals , a series where James made a habit of disappearing in the fourth quarter, it somehow felt like an underdog victory (because nothing screams "true underdogs" like a Dallas-based team bankrolled by a billionaire mogul ).
(3) The move is significant because Sainsbury, a supporter of David Miliband who has bankrolled Labour with £13m in the last 10 years, is one of several big donors who have said they are not keen on continuing to back Labour with Ed in charge.
(4) Premier League finances: the full club-by-club breakdown and verdict Read more The regulations, which restrict clubs’ losses to £35m a year if bankrolled by an owner and cap the amount of new TV income permitted to be spent on players’ wages, immediately transformed clubs’ balance sheets.
(5) Years earlier, she had duped him into bankrolling her travels.
(6) Xu bankrolled Guagua's trips between China and the UK, where he was attending school at the time, as well as trips to Cuba, Argentina, Venice, Paris, and Germany, where Guagua attended the 2006 World Cup.
(7) In the last week of the campaign, people in the yes campaign have accused their opponents of being bankrolled by evangelical Christian groups in the US , a claim they deny and which, if true, would be illegal.
(8) As Ms Murdoch admitted, throughout her career she had been helped and bankrolled by her father.
(9) Woolfe was backed by many of the Faragists, including Arron Banks, the major Ukip donor who bankrolled an influential anti-EU group during the referendum.
(10) Part of el‑Shater's influence comes from his wealth, which helps to bankroll the party – giving rise to his nickname inside the movement: minister for finance.
(11) And yet Made in Dagenham (like Submarine, The King's Speech and Another Year) was bankrolled in part by the UK Film Council , which is being closed and will cease operations by April 2012.
(12) By keeping non-dom status Ashcroft avoided paying tens of millions of pounds in tax in the UK while sitting in the Lords and still bankrolling the Conservatives .
(13) The Global boss is the son of Michael Tabor, who amassed a fortune from bookmaking, horsebreeding and property, and helped bankroll the £545m double purchase of GCap Media and Chrysalis Radio that created Global's broadcasting empire.
(14) And a bank is yet to explicitly bankroll Carmichael.
(15) The UK chain generates two thirds of group profits and had been milked to bankroll international expansion, leading to shabby stores and deteriorating customer service.
(16) She has denied any involvement in the scandal, although her People’s party is accused of siphoning off state funds to bankroll its election campaign.
(17) Buoyed by the oil and gas companies and fossil-fuel-funder mega-donors that increasingly bankroll their campaigns, most prominent Republican politicians have either denied that climate change exists or refused to stake out a clear position, citing their personal lack of scientific knowledge.
(18) The City would be more circumspect about openly bankrolling the Conservatives if it thought there was a possibility that Labour might win the next election.
(19) There are widespread rumours that Yanukovych's eldest son, Oleksandr, has bankrolled anti-Kiev protests.
(20) He is also widely rumoured to have used his connections to bankroll dozens of deputies.