News & Insights
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Insights
Forensics in the Banknote World
As counterfeiting methods evolve, central banks must stay vigilant. Crane Currency provides critical insights through forensic analysis and counterfeit risk assessments, helping to safeguard banknotes and maintain public confidence.
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Celebrating 20 Years of MOTION®
It was 20 years ago that the micro-optics technology behind MOTION® first made its appearance – first at the Optical Document Security conference that year in San Francisco, and then a few months later at the Currency Conference in Rome.
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Meet Crane Currency’s Quality Lab Manager, Charlot Magro
"When Crane opened a new printing facility in Malta in 2017, I seized the opportunity to build and lead a state-of-the-art testing lab, which has since become renowned for its capabilities and expertise."
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When Are New Banknote Security Features Ready for Use?
For central banks, manufacturability is crucial, and it is essential to ask suppliers the fundamental question: Is this new feature ready for production and public use – or are we at risk of quality failures, delivery delays, and erosion of public trust?
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Technology
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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.
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“No Need for Anti-Pathogen Treatment of Banknotes”
There are many lessons to learn from the pandemic, not the least the importance of effective policies to protect the health and well-being of families. Getting the needed public confidence requires long-term and science-based strategies – also for central banks who faced questions around the safety of cash.
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Technology
The Best is Now Even Better
In today’s day and age we are constantly on the lookout for processes that simplify and make faster all aspects of our lives, including how we pay. Already fast, cash payments take about 10 seconds to conclude and of these we spend an average of about one second looking at our banknotes. Of that, only one-third of a second is typically dedicated to verifying the authenticity of our banknotes.