The March 2014 issue of "Banknotes of the World" covered several important and hot topics.

• Firstly, it's the 95th jubilee of the Forensic Center at the Russian Interior Ministry. Today's Sherlock Holmeses perform a lot of miscellaneous expert work including on counterfeit banknotes and securities, operative research. We congratulate RIM FC on their jubilee, talk about basic historical stages of the service and address I.G. Zakharova, Head of the Document, Banknote and Securities Research Dept.
• Februaury featured 2 top banking events - the iFin 2014 conference and the annual meeting of the CBR with representatives of Russian commercial banks. At the conference, the best software developers and hardware producers presented various e-banking systems and e-banking security solutions, now relevant during the cyber-crime boom like never before. The bankers-regulator meeting raised the problems requiring solutions right now: what happens next in the banking sector, whether a systemic bank list will be drafted and what other banks will be closed. We have reviewed these interesting events!

Other features:

• Interview with V.М. Gerasimov, a consultant at the Banknote and Anti-Counterfeiting Department of the Bank of Russia, and V.P. Shesternin, Head of the Commemorative Coin Department of the Bank of Russia, on commemorative and investment coins issued in 2013
• We present the most interesting bonds of the Emission 2 auction.
• Presentation of the nominees for the prestigious IACA Currency Awards for Technical Excellence.
• Full description of security features of 9-country banknotes recently put in circulation!

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