It's important for any professional cash handler to accurately take their berings among many latest trends, innovations, research and financial forecasts. Such info has been provided for the last 13 years by the "Banknotes of the World" journal enabling you to stay tuned for all top cash circulation developments.

The cover story of the February 2014 "BoW" issue, which is counterfeit deterrence especially hot in the past half year, was chosen deliberately - all forensic experts and CBR reps report detection of a new fake cash type targeterd at circulation via ATMs and PoS terminals.

More detailed specs of such fake notes are available in the exclusive contribution by the CBR Currency Analysis Service.

ATM fakes and their countermeasures are described by V. Finogenov,Head of the Currency and Counterfeiting Prevention Division at the CBR Cash Circulation Department.

A review by Dmitry Repetyuk, Lead Engineer for New Products at Crane Payment Solutions, considers requirements to bill validators and acceptors at the current stage of banking development: a lot of anti-counterfeiting efforts also rely on cash processing equipment producers.

Extra info:

• The unique Verus device recently made by Innovia Films producing Guardian polymer substrates took the detector market by storm. Verus easily and quickly verifies polymer notes by detecting in the analyzed sample unique characteristics inherent in Guardian. The device has several mods for tellers and individuals.
• Full info on security features of the new 10 euro note, the mod Transnistrian ruble series and currencies of other 8 countries!

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