The Bank of England has provided an update regarding potential designs for the forthcoming series of banknotes. This will ...

The 50-pound bill, worth about $65, is rarely used in everyday life in Britain, but that hasn’t stopped Britons from trying to get their favorites to be the face of a forthcoming design of the note.

The five, 10 and 50 pound notes feature, respectively, pictures of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, naturalist Charles Darwin and John Houblon, the first Governor of the Bank of England.

Code breaker and father of artificial intelligence Alan Turing will be the face of the U.K.’s new polymer 50-pound ($63) note. The mathematician was chosen from almost 1,000 eligible nominations ...