Monthly Archives: October 2018
The new Swiss Banknotes
In April 2016, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) launched its 9th banknote series with the new CHF 50 denomination. As more than 20 years have passed...
Cashless versus cash
Cashless transactions are on the rise – let there be no doubt about that. Is this increase in electronic transactions a sign that we...
Product design specifications
The creation of a new identity document always involves many stakeholders, each with high expectations. Designing a new ID document is very much about...
Recent impact in Optical Machine Authentication
In 2013 and 2014 we published two articles in this Journal on current aspects in machine authentication of security documents. Since then, the results...
Law enforcement goes mobile
Law enforcement agencies are increasingly finding that the current generation of smartphones and other mobile devices can have important benefits for operational work. Retaining...
Multiple citizenship
The number of persons holding more than one passport has grown considerably in the last ten years – a trend that is likely to...
Big data and migration policy
It is often argued that we lack data on international migration. Although there are large gaps in countries’ knowledge about migration, it is also...
Additive manufacturing
Printing has traditionally been a key technology in the production of secure documents, but it continues to produce new innovations, such as additive manufacturing....
Identities in the blockchain
Identities are important in a blockchain environment. As the blockchain concept in itself does not provide for an identity solution, an interesting challenge lies...
Advanced Generative AI: The Variational Autoencoder
In this series of articles, author Ravi Das examines some of the more advanced topics that support Generative AI. In this first article, he...
LIVE BLOG: Hawaii launches mobile driver’s license/ID card for Apple devices and more news…
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Kenya Releases an Updated Series of Banknotes
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has made some updates to all denominations of the Kenyan banknotes. All denominations are affected, including the 50...
A Sneak Peek at Indonesia’s New-and-Improved Passport
Indonesia plans to celebrate its 80th Independence Day next year by issuing a redesigned passport to its citizens. The Directorate General of the Ministry...
Optimizing Serialization: Part 4
The first three articles in this series reviewed contemporary security document serial number design strategies related to letterpress printing technology, security inks and font...