It has been a long journey that started in April 2002 when the Board of the Bank approved the start of the work for the new currency designs for circulation in 2007. Two Committees were formed to work on this project. The first committee looked at the design of the Notes.
For the Reserve Bank, the biggest challenge was to get a proper appreciation of the scope of this rather technical project which none of us had any prior experience in. In addition, we lost the lead manager of the project program half way through. Establishing the infrastructure like secure communication channels was not that easy as you may appreciate in Fiji.