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Published on 23 June 2022 News release The Bank of England will be withdrawing legal tender status of paper £20 and £50 banknotes after 30 September 2022. After this date, paper £20 and £50 banknotes will no longer be legal tender. So we are encouraging anyone who still has these to use them or deposit them at their bank or a Post Office during these last 100 days. It is also exactly one year since we issued the polymer £50 banknote featuring the scientist Alan Turing, on what would have been his 109th birthday. The Turing £50 completed our family...

The Pound erased its post-election gains over the Euro and Dollar Tuesday amid reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will create a new 'no deal' Brexit cliff edge, which has led some analysts to suggest a further correction is in store for the British currency. Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly plans to enshrine the end of 2020 into law as the end of the next phase in the Brexit negotiations and the 'transition' period the UK will enter once the withdrawal agreement is ratified and the country formally leaves the EU on January 31. ITV News reported late Monday that...

The new £1 coin comes into circulation this month, signalling the beginning of the end for the round pound, which will be completely phased out by 15 October.

The threat of “Brexit” is delivering a Christmas bonanza to Northern Ireland, where the thousands visiting daily from the euro-using Republic of Ireland are finding bargains driven by the battered pound. In the malls of Newry, a Northern Ireland town barely 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the United Kingdom’s only land border with a European Union partner, the surge in cross-border holiday shopping underscores how far the British currency has fallen amid anxiety over the country’s promised EU exit. While the euro is unusually weak against the resurgent dollar, the pound is far weaker, boosting price differentials on most goods....

Markets around the world have been roiled by the shock result: In Japan the Nikkei 225 was down some 7.5 percentSterling has fallen 10 percent against the dollar and 3.35 percent against the euro.The prices of Brent and WTI have both dropped some 5.8 percent.The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond has fallen 12.5 percent.Dow futures now down 700 points

George Soros, the billionaire who earned fame by betting against the pound in 1992, said that a British vote on Thursday to leave the European Union would trigger a bigger and more disruptive sterling devaluation than the fall on Black Wednesday. Soros used Quantum Fund in 1992 to bet successfully that sterling was overvalued against the Deutsche Mark, forcing then-Prime Minister John Major to pull the pound out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). Soros, in an opinion piece in the Guardian newspaper, said that in the event of a British exit, or Brexit, the pound would fall by...

Donald Trump backs Brexit, saying UK would be 'better off' without EU https://t.co/58PabVSPEc— The Guardian (@guardian) May 6, 2016

Mark Carney will try to devalue the pound by as much as 15 percent after he takes over as Bank of England Governor in July in a last ditch attempt to cement the UK recovery, PIMCO, the world’s largest bond house, has warned. Growth in Britain is going to remain “challenged” for the next three to five years as the Government continues to shrink the public sector and cut the budget deficit. As banks and households also grapple with their excessive debts, “that leaves one policy tool outstanding, which is basically the currency”, PIMCO managing director and sterling bond head...

Britain’s pension system is in meltdown, with retirement payouts slashed 27 percent in just four years. Experts say the Bank of England’s policy of printing money to ease the country through the recession has destroyed the pensions industry and “impoverished more than a million pensioners”. And yesterday, in a fresh blow, the Bank’s policy makers agreed to more quantitative easing (QE), pumping an extra £50 billion ($77.4 billion) into the economy and boosting the money supply to £375 billion ($580 billion). William Hunter, director of Hunter Wealth Management, said: “The economy may need more QE, but pensioners need it like...