NEWS & INSIGHTS
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Technology
Meet the 3D Animation Experts Creating Next-Generation Banknotes
It all boils down to software. Whether you have digital meetings with colleagues around the world, put your feet up to enjoy a great movie or drive away in your new electric car, endless lines of computer code make it possible. It’s the same thing with banknote security.
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Insights
Interview with Dr. Georges Chalhoub, Director of Cash Operations, Bank of Lebanon
Crane Currency had a chance to sit down and speak with Dr. Georges Chalhoub, Director of Cash Operations, Bank of Lebanon, to talk about his career at BdL and the recently issued 10,000 LBP banknote.
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Company News
Essentra Packaging & Crane Currency Announce Partnership for Pharmaceutical and Beauty Packaging
Essentra Packaging is pleased to announce a strategic partnership agreement with Crane Currency (“Crane”), to develop a range of next generation security features for the pharmaceutical and beauty packaging industry.
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Insights
An Illustrious License to Print
With over 250 years of history, Crane Currency is a leading name in the production of currency for central banks worldwide. The company’s high-tech portfolio of security products, paper technologies and comprehensive services places it firmly within a small elite group servicing the world’s central banks.
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Insights
The Future of Banknote Security – A Professor’s View
When handling cash, we normally glance at each banknote for less than a second. Central banks and banknote issuers are coming to realize that this brief glimpse provides a crucial opportunity for public authentication – giving them a chance to keep ahead of counterfeiters.
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Company News
Four Not for Profit Organizations Supported by Crane Fund
Four not for profit organizations (NGOs) have received a donation of USD 3,750 each from Crane Fund in support and recognition of their activities in their various fields in Sweden.
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Banknotes
Six Commemorative Banknotes Issued in the Ukraine
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has issued a total of six commemorative banknotes during 2021 to celebrate the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence.
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Insights
What’s Bling Got to Do with It?
Earlier this year, Mari-Anne Snäll, Marketing Manager at Crane Currency, was invited to present at the 60th anniversary forum of the International Bank Note Society (IBNS). As an active member within the currency community, she offered her personal reflections on how showy features used to attract consumers are slipping, at times dangerously, into the feature-effects used to prevent counterfeiting.