One potent weapon in the fight against Covid-19 comes from somewhere you might not expect: the banknote printing industry. Bioguard is a treatment invented 15 years ago for combatting viruses, bacteria and microscopic fungi on banknotes. Tests conducted last year by the solution’s creator, security printer Oberthur Fiduciaire, clinically demonstrated its efficacy against coronavirus. But…
Due to the national interests involved and the economic value of partnerships between central banks and fiduciary printers, central banks are increasingly exigent in their requirements. Oberthur Fiduciaire’s CEO Thomas Savare affirms that central banks are turning more and more towards international certificates in an effort to prevent repeats of past scandals. Past mistakes Central…
In a few years, Oberthur Fiduciaire will look back on two centuries of high-tech printing and graphics expertise-building. Few companies live that long – either dying or being bought out by competition. Swingin by various markets, and adopting various stances, it always kept the same bearing of ever-better, safer, finer printing. A course to follow ?…
Is Sweden completely changing its mind about cash? For the past few years, the country had engaged in a war against cash and was to become one of the first cash-free nations on the planet. But voices were raised against it and now the access to cash could very well become a legal right in…
A very important economic transformation is under way, and it seems voluntarily to be placed at a stratospheric level, with stakeholders carefully keeping the subject away from public opinion. Several types of players are even favorable to such an economy. But the implications are many, and not all are good. A close scrutiny of the…
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