News & Insights
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Insights
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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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
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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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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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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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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.