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Traditional, but indispensable and cutting-edge. How much tech is packed into a banknote?

12/05/2025 Fernando León , Raquel Pantoja , Cristina García , Miguel López

Cash is still essential in the digital age. Banknotes – from their design to production – incorporate the latest technology to be more secure, durable and sustainable. They are high-tech industrial products that are constantly being enhanced. At the Banco de España, we help design the banknotes of the future.

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Encuesta

05/02/2025

Analysing wealth in Spain: 20 years of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances

Cristina Barceló , Olympia Bover , Laura Crespo , Luis Guirola

How is wealth or home ownership distributed among Spanish households? For the last 20 years the Banco de España’s Spanish Survey of Household Finances has provided rich information on Spanish households’ finances and enabled the analysis of these and many other related questions.

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14/05/2024

Why is financial and economic education important? The role of the Banco de España

Carmen Sánchez Carretero , Patricia Stupariu

Financial education seeks to improve the general public’s financial literacy, giving them the tools and information they need to take informed decisions. The Banco de España supports financial education through a range of initiatives targeted at different population groups, bolstering their financial well-being and the stability of the financial system overall.

Household finances