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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.
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Sustainability: A Hallmark of Cash
The improving sustainability of cash is important, as across both developing and developed economies the demand for physical cash continues to increase – in nearly all countries significantly outpacing the rise in GDP.
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Crane Currency featured in The NH UNION LEADER
Stephen DeFalco knows what it takes to make money. As CEO of Crane Currency, he leads a company that makes money making money – the banknotes used by countries all over the world.