Our Nomination Period is OPEN for the 2024 Excellence In Currency: Technology Awards

by | Jan 24, 2024 | Awards | 0 comments

Start preparing your nominations for the 2024 Excellence in Currency Awards. The Winners of these Technical Awards will be announced next May at the 2024 Banknote Conference in Fort Worth, Texas (May 13-16).

Nomination Period opened November 1, 2023 and will close February 5, 2024. After that our Judging Committee will review and score the nominations against the stated criteria for each category. The Judges combined scoring will determine the finalists in each category and then it goes to the IACA Voting Members for their vote (the Best New House Note will be the exception to this). Read our Award Guidelines and Criteria for more detailed information HERE

  1. Best New Banknote Feature, Product or Process
  2. Best New Limited Circulation/Commemorative Banknote
  3. Best New Cash Cycle Innovation
  4. Best New House Note (all nominations will go to the vote of the IACA Central Bank voting members and the Banknote conference delegation)

Nominations must be submitted though IACA’s awards platform:  https://currencyaffairs.awardsplatform.com/

All projects must have been issued or completed between October 1, 2021, through January 31, 2024 to be eligible.

A big THANK YOU to our judging committee–who reviews and scores all nominations to determine our finalists. (exception–no judging for the Best House Note)

Tomasz Jagielinski, President/CEO, NXTGenDetect

Michael Lambert, former Director of Banknotes, Federal Reserve Board

Brian Lang, VP of IACA and former Head of Currency, RBNZ

Richard Wall, IACA Chair; former MD of Currency, Bank of Canada

Ton Roos, former Director of Banknotes, ECB

Lydia Yip, Advisor to Central Banks, former Head of Currency, HKMA

Any questions, please direct to Sybil Baxter at sbaxter@currencyaffairs.org .