logo

Fortress Paper Ltd, a pulp and security paper product specialist, has released a statement confirming the first use of their Durasafe® substrate in the new Moroccan 25 dirham banknote. Durasafe® is a high security composite produced at the Landqart Mill in Switzerland. Collaboration between Fortress and the Swiss National bank led to DuraSafe’s development and [...]

Categories: Banknotes, News, Technology
Read More
GD_logo

Yesterday (11/12/2012), Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) presented their latest technology to fight against banknote counterfeiters whilst at the Banknote 2012 conference in Washington D.C. A press release was also issued by the company detailing their new product: MAGnite. This banknote security feature uses “high performance pigments that allow reversible changes between two colour states” when [...]

Categories: Banknotes, News, Technology
Read More
QR Code - SMI Website

The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology have developed a tiny version of the QR Code with the intention of them being applied to banknotes as a security feature. The QR Code is created by combining microscopic nanoparticles with blue and green fluorescent inks before applying them to the banknote surface using an aerosol [...]

Categories: News, Technology
Read More
Talaris_Logo

On the 24th August 2012, Talaris™ launched their new cash recycler, the Vertera 6G™. Cash recyclers enable bank and retail branches to manage their cash efficiently and securely, providing a fast yet reliable method of cash management within businesses such as bank and retail branches. Even with a small footprint, the Vertera 6G™ is able [...]

Categories: News, Technology
Read More
QR Code - SMI Website
Use of QR codes on banknotes - 30th April 2012

QR codes, or Quick Response codes, are becoming more and more common and are often seen in advertising and marketing media. A QR code is a two dimensional barcode which requires a QR reading device such as a smartphone to link directly to the information stored within the code, which can be websites, emails, texts [...]

Categories: Technology
Read More
Technology
Talaris is acquired - 18th March 2012

Cash handling equpiment and software provider Talaris, which employs 1900 people, has been acquired by Glory Corporation for £650 million. Talaris was previously De La Rue Cash Systems, but was sold for £360m in 2008 to private equity group Carlyle Europe Partners. In less than 4 years their investment nearly doubled. Since the departure from De La Rue, Talaris’ [...]

Categories: Technology
Read More
Technology
SMI comments on NOtES - 15th February 2012

Martin Arkwright and SMI have featured on Financial Post Entrepeneur, commenting on the new NOtES technology which was presented in a keynote speech at an industry conference in San Fransciso. NOtES – Nano-Optic Technology for Enhanced Security – uses nano-optic technology such as that found on butterflies, scaled up to could create a next-generation, high-definition hologram. Martin is quoted as [...]

Categories: Technology
Read More