anti-counterfeiting measures
Easy-To-Use Technology Leading To Counterfeit Bump
It used to be a highly refined skill requiring substantial training and reserved for specialized technicians, but today counterfeiting is as easy as “the push of a button” say sources from the US federal government – and this is leading to a big jump in the amount of counterfeit banknotes in circulation. The US Secret [...]
NEW FEATURES: Connecting The Quantum Dots
This article is part of a continuing series that looks at security features in development for the security paper industry. It’s not a connection you can make everyday, but some leading cancer research could also prove to be an important development for the security paper industry. Quantum dots are a discovery of nanotechnology (much like [...]
Learning More About The CBCDG
The Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group (CBCDG) is a group of 31 central banks and note printing authorities that investigates emerging threats to banknote security and proposes solutions for these threats. Consisting of members from countries around the world including Canada, the United States, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Japan, France, Greece the United Kingdom, the CBCDG [...]
NEW FEATURES: Forensic Fingerprinting
It may sound like something straight out of the crime-drama CSI, but scientists in Brazil and the US are developing a method of identifying “fingerprints” on banknotes in order to spot counterfeits. The process is done using what chemists call a “mass spectrometric technique” that can detect the authenticity of a banknote in seconds. This [...]
How Computer Software Can Prevent Counterfeiting
With the onset of devices like colour photocopiers, personal printers, and high-quality photo printers readily available on the market, security features on banknotes are at an all time high when it comes to the technology they employ. While security features embedded in banknotes are the first line of defense when it comes to protection against [...]
India Switches Rs500 & 1,000 Notes To Blue Paper
After a significant “large-scale circulation of fake notes” throughout India over the past year, the Indian government has decided to begin printing Rs500 and Rs1,000 on special blue security paper to curtail counterfeiting in the region. Blue paper is made by combining cotton and linen fibre with a special dye that only glows under ultraviolet [...]
NEW FEATURES: How Butterflies Could Help Protect Banknotes
While we often write about security devices that have already been introduced in banknotes, this week we launch the first part in a continuing series called “New Features” looking at features that are in development but have yet to be adopted by the industry. In the world of banknote security, anti-counterfeit technology has to be [...]
A Closer Look At The New US $100 Bill’s Security Features
The new US $100 banknote is being called “the next generation one hundred” by the US Treasury Department. Along with a redesign of the bill’s graphic layout and the addition of some colour, several new security features have been added to the bill while some old ones maintain their presence. The newest, and arguably the [...]
Taking Stock of Tickets
Paper makers like Fortress Paper are most known in the security sector for their production of banknote paper, and rightfully so. At their mill in Landqart, Switzerland, Fortress Paper manufactures some of the world’s most high-tech and highly securitized banknotes for many countries including Switzerland. Specializing in security features for banknotes, Fortress has become a [...]
