Welcome to the Banknote Ethics Initiative

The Banknote Ethics Initiative (BnEI) is an initiative established to provide ethical business practice, with a focus on the prevention of corruption and on compliance with anti-trust law within the banknote industry.

Maintaining high ethical standards across the banknote industry is essential in order to ensure our customers and other stakeholders are confident that the standards which we apply to our practices are beyond reproach.

Together we can help ensure that all the companies operating in the industry are performing to the highest ethical standards.

Members must adhere to a strict Code of Ethical Business Practice. All organisations that have signed the Code must become accredited after passing an audit carried out by a third party auditor.

Prof. Deon Rossouw, BnEI Chairman: In His Take on Dealing Corruption 22 Jan 2024 (Link)
BnEI Press Release 20 Sep 2023 (PDF)
BnEI Press Release 26 July 2023 (PDF)
BnEI Press Release 31 Aug 2022 (PDF)
BnEI Press Release 28 Sep 2021 (PDF)
BnEI Press Release 02 April 2020 (PDF)
BnEI Press Release 21 Nov 2019 (PDF)
BnEI Presentation at the Mint and Print international conference in Beirut 25 Sep 2018 (PDF)
BnEI Press Release 24 June 2018 (PDF)
Currency News 20 April 2018 (PDF)
BnEI Press Release 24 Nov 2017 (PDF)
Imprint & Privacy Policy May 2017 (PDF)
Currency News 5 May 2017 (PDF)
BnEI Press Release 5 Nov 2016 (PDF)
BnEI Presentation at the Mint & Print conference Beirut 8 Sep 2016 (PDF)
BnEI Press Release 23 Nov 2015 (PDF)
BnEI Press Release 5 Nov 2014 (PDF)
First companies pass the Banknote Ethics Initiative accreditation 19 Feb 2014 (PDF)
BnEI Presentation at the Currency Conference in Athens 13 May 2013 (PDF)
Flyer: Introducing The Banknote Ethics Initiative (PDF)