News & Insights
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Insights
The Role of Cash is Changing
Is the role of your banknotes changing? For all the talk about a decline in cash demand, data shows a steady rise in the value and the number of banknotes in circulation.
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The Right Choice?
As with all companies, our spending choices can be considered investments in the company’s future. So how does Crane Currency ensure its choices are the right ones? Especially when it comes to security technologies, we do this in four ways:
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Central Bank Digital Currency – Put the Public First
When developing new technology, success depends on fully understanding the users’ behavior. Collecting real data on what people are doing, what they believe and what they want is critical. Designers of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) have a lot to learn from the anthropology experts – and the manufacturers and designers of banknotes.
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Perception Study Results of New Banknote Feature to be Presented at Public First
The industry’s acknowledged banknote perception expert, Professor Jane Raymond, is studying a yet-to-be launched banknote security feature. The results will be presented for the first time at the Public First conference in Malta, hosted by Crane Currency on March 13-16.
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Internet Delivers Movie Money Directly to You – and the Criminals
If you have been enjoying a new blockbuster movie at the theatre or binge watching the latest series on your sofa, then you’ve most likely seen impressive piles of cash. This is actually fake cash, manufactured as a prop, especially for the camera. This so called “movie money”or “prop money” can enhance any film production. Not long ago, movie money wasn’t very easy to get, much less even know about. The internet, like with so many things, has changed that.
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Technology
How Designing for Movement With RAPID® HD Aims to Revolutionize How the World Checks its Money
The more the world and technology advance and impact how we pay for things, the more important it is to create banknotes that make use of next-generation technology to keep them functional and secure with designs and features that are appealing and intuitive to the public.
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Technology
The Fusion Between Art and Engineering
The chance to develop and explore technology attracted Kara Zona, who has been at Crane Currency for five years. She is the Design Team Lead for a small, but growing team of experts creating micro-optic designs using Crane’s award-winning, micro-lens-based security technology.
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Technology
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BEMs Speak for the Public
The ability to recognize very quickly the denominations of banknotes, in just a glance, belies the complexity of the act. Common banknote validators or “bill acceptors” perform the same act of recognition and authentication impressively when one considers these machines, even top performers, cost less than $900 and are expected to reject 100% of forgeries while still accepting 100% of all genuine banknotes