Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Gregory Peck down and out in Edwardian London? Ghastly business! But things look up for Henry Adams when two eccentric bankers issue ...

Mark Twain's classic story of the penniless American who is given a million pound bank note in a wager and succeeds in keeping it intact for a month, makes gentle screen satire.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Bank of England in September unveiled an innovative five pound note made of thin, flexible plastic. The idea, the bank said, was ...

Once hovering on the brink of being classified as an endangered species, the humble five pound note is back with a vengeance. Skip to main content Exclusive news, data and analytics for financial ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Once hovering on the brink of being classified as an endangered species, the humble five pound note is back with a vengeance.Britons are using 10 times more “fivers” than ...

LONDON -- Two hundred years to the day after Jane Austen died, a new 10-pound note featuring an image of one of England's most revered authors has been unveiled -- right where she was buried.At ...

The euro zone's high-denomination banknotes always remind me of the Mark Twain short storyor rather the Gregory Peck  movie, "The Million Pound Note." That, older readers may recall ...

The crown on the front appears 3-D, and the note even displays a message under a black light. Britain joins Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, in issuing plastic bills. The U.S., so far, has not.

The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, poses at Winchester Cathedral in England on Tuesday, with the new 10-pound note featuring the image of Jane Austen.