Monthly Archives: December 2023
The Kingdom of Tonga Issues a New Banknote Series
The National Reserve Bank of Tonga (NRBT) launched Tonga’s latest series of banknotes on December 4, 2023, commemorating the birthday of the Kingdom’s King...
Morocco Issues a Redesigned 100-Dirham Banknote
The Central Bank of Morocco (Bank Al-Maghrib) has issued a redesigned version of its 100-Dirham banknote, ushering in a new family of banknotes. The new...
UK Government To Roll Out eVisas Throughout 2024
UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) are developing a digital immigration system by replacing physical documents with the eVisa, which is an online record of...
Austria is Now Issuing a New Generation Passport
Beginning December 1, 2023, Austria began accepting applications for its new-and-improved passport. The Austrian government worked with experts from the Ministry of the Interior,...
Border Management and Identity Conference
11 - 13 December 2024 | Thailand - Bangkok
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Asia Pacific Smart Card Association (APSCA) host the...
The UAE Introduces a New 500-Dirham Polymer Banknote
The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has announced the issuance of a new AED 500 (500-Dirham) banknote made of polymer. The announcement came...
Biometric Technologies of the Future: Earlobe Recognition
Expert author Ravi Das has, in previous articles, described DNA recognition and Gait recognition as physical biometric technologies of the future. Here, he presents...
TRUSTECH 2024 PARIS
3 - 5 December 2024 | France - Paris
TRUSTECH Paris is an international exhibition dedicated to payments and identification solutions. The 38th edition will...
High Security Printing Asia
2 - 4 December 2024 | Thailand - Bangkok
High Security Printing (HSP) event focuses on government-specified and issued documents, including currency, fiduciary documents, excise...
Advanced Generative AI: The Diffusion Model
So far, this series of articles by Cyber expert Ravi Das has covered two advanced topics in Generative AI: the Variational Autoencoder and the General Adversarial Network....
Upgraded Alaska Driver’s License, ID Card Coming This Fall
The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) recently announced that it will begin issuing upgraded driver’s licenses and ID cards starting in late Fall...
EES and ETIAS: the EU’s New Border Management Systems [UPDATE]
As we have previously reported, the European Union has long been planning to introduce two separate but integrated border management systems. Together, the systems...
Advanced Generative AI: General Adversarial Network
We kicked off this new AI-focused series by Cyber expert Ravi Das with an article about the Variational Autoencoder (VAE). In this second article,...
Rwanda’s New 2,000 RWF and 5,000 RWF Banknotes
The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has put into circulation redesigned versions of two of its banknote denominations: the 2,000 Rwanda franc (RWF) and...