NEWS & INSIGHTS
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Technology
Explore The Beauty of Life with Crane’s Interactive Banknote
Crane Currency is launching an interactive, web-based version of its Beauty of Life house note. Users can now explore the banknote’s design and security features directly in a web browser.
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Company News
The Beauty of Life House Note Receives Prestigious IOTA Award
The award was handed to Sam Cape, Innovation Director at Crane Currency, during the Optical & Digital Document Security (ODDS) conference, organized by Reconnaissance International in Warsaw, Poland.
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'The Beauty of Life' – A House Note in Motion
What does the future of currency look like? For Crane Currency, it moves with light, tells a story, and earns trust at a glance. "The Beauty of Life” brings this vision to life with narrative-rich design and a bold, super wide variant of MOTION SURFACE®.
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Introducing cBREEZE™ – Tailor-Made Banknote Security
When it comes to protecting low-denomination banknotes, central banks have long faced a dilemma: how to balance cost-efficiency with strong, intuitive security. Now, Crane Currency offers a modern answer for modern banknote.
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Banco de México’s New House Note Puts MOTION SURFACE® to the Test
General Director Alegre described the Bank’s latest innovation, the new Jalisco Printing Works commissioned in 2018 – a model of efficiency and security and a driving force behind future series of Mexican banknotes.
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Intense Liquid-Kinetic Movement at the Micron Level
RAPID® Vision – the latest innovative micro-optic security thread for banknotes. Like many technology breakthroughs, Vision benefitted hugely from prior work. In this case by a micro-optics team of designers, software engineers and scientists who were involved with the creation of the very first RAPID security thread launched in 2014.
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Insights
Colorshift: It’s time to go!
Security feature materials once considered secure, can over time, be weakened, as lookalike materials used in consumer and industrial applications become increasingly available.
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Technology
The role of cash automation in the modern economy
Two major innovations are currently transforming the cash economy. These are cash digitization and payment automation. The former seeks to create an ‘on ramp’ to the digital economy, especially for the unbanked, who are estimated to exceed 1.3 billion people, while the latter is rapidly making cash services more accessible.