Markets We Serve
Currency
Banknotes, coins, cash and payments — the intelligence behind how currency is designed, produced, issued and protected.
Currency has been at the heart of Reconnaissance International since our founding in 1988. We follow the entire value chain — from banknote and coin design, substrate and security feature production, through to issuance, cash handling, payments infrastructure and anti-counterfeiting — serving central banks, printers, mints, suppliers and cash-in-transit operators worldwide.
Our three sector newsletters give the market its daily and monthly record: Currency News covers banknote and coin production and security technology; Cash & Payment News tracks the cash cycle, payments infrastructure and CBDCs; and Coin & Mint News follows circulating coinage and minting operations. Together they are the publications the industry turns to first.
We bring the sector together in person through our own conference portfolio — including The Coin Conference, the Security Designers Forum, Optical & Digital Document Security and our High Security Printing series across Asia, EMEA and the Americas — plus specialist forums on the technical and design challenges facing currency issuers today.
For teams who need structured reference data rather than news, DataVault is our specialist research platform on banknote and coin specifications, updated monthly and used by central banks, printers, mints, consultants and law enforcement. And where clients need more than information, our consultancy team provides market research, competitive intelligence and government advisory work, drawing on the same first-hand knowledge that underpins our publications and events.
Latest From Our Newsletters
Coin & Mint News
1 June 2026
New Numismatic Issues
The Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten (CBCS) has issued two commemorative coins to mark the Curaçao national football team’s qualification for the 2026 World Cup ; Monnaie de Paris has unveiled a new gold investment offering, Marianne Or, and its digital counterpart, eMarianne Or ; the South African Mint has launched its first-ever high-relief coin collection titled ‘The African Range’; and the National Bank of Ukraine has issued a new commemorative coin honouring Alexandra Exter, a leading figure of the 20th-century European avant-garde – a Ukrainian Cubo-Futurist artist, educator, and a pioneer of Art Deco.
Currency News
1 July 2026
Our Enduring Emotional Attachment to Cash
Four separate cash-related stories from four separate countries in the last month. One theme in common, however, which is the enduring personal attachment to banknotes – dare one say the emotional support – that currency involves. In other words, what unites them is the fact that emotion still prevails when it comes to a nation’s calling card, even in those countries which are supposedly doing away with cash, as is claimed to be the case in Denmark and the UK.
Cash & Payment News
2 July 2026
Danes Value Cash But Pay Digitally
Danmarks Nationalbank has published a paper about cash use in Denmark. The paper draws on the results of the latest survey of citizens’ payment habits, which took place in the autumn of 2025 – the latest in a series that started in 2017.