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Nicola Sudan

27 Jan. 2022

2 min read

LumaChrome Holographic Gives Two-Factor Authentication

Nanotech Security Corporation, now owned by Meta Materials Inc, is perhaps best known for designing, originating, recombining, and mass-producing nanotechnology-based films for securing documents of value against counterfeiting and tampering. But the Canada-based firm also offers a range of labelling solutions for advanced brand protection, to which it has now added a holographic version.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

27 Jan. 2022

4 min read

New De La Rue Innovations

De La Rue’s Authentication division recently presented interesting developments in digital security printing and product traceability.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

27 Jan. 2022

2 min read

Document Checking in Challenging Environments

Each year, the authentication industry produces tens of millions of documents that require fast and reliable examination to confirm their authenticity. Doculus Lumus® is a mobile document checking device from charismaTec that was developed specifically for use in the often challenging environments of document checking for border management, law enforcement, security printing and banking.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

27 Jan. 2022

3 min read

Nano-Structured Features – Research Continues

Brand owners of mass-produced goods have for some time had access to a range of anti-counterfeit devices, such as holograms, security inks and nano-optic effects that provide clear visual signals of authenticity to consumers.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

27 Jan. 2022

5 min read

News in Brief

The increasing trend towards consolidation in the track and trace industry continues with the announcement that Movilitas has been acquired by Engineering USA, bolstering the group’s industrial digitisation division.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

27 Jan. 2022

2 min read

Fluorescent Organohydrogel for Encrypting Secret Information

Fluorescence – the phenomena where some materials emit radiation as a result of external stimuli – is usually a result, at least in the authentication industry, of visible light being emitted from incident radiation of a shorter wavelength.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

27 Jan. 2022

3 min read

How Taiwan Rewards Citizens for Buying Legal Goods

Part of any anti-illicit product strategy should ideally include measures to reduce consumer demand for illicit products in the first place. While such measures could include imposing penalties on consumers for buying illicit goods, Taiwan has gone in the opposite direction with a scheme that rewards consumers for buying genuine, compliant goods.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

19 Jan. 2022

4 min read

Ecuador Under Pressure?

In the August 2021 issue of Tax Stamp & Traceability News™, we covered some rather controversial changes that Ecuador’s tax authority, Servicio de Rentas Internas (SRI) had pushed through back in April in the form of Resolution NACDGERCGC21-00000019.

Countries Track and Trace

Nicola Sudan

18 Jan. 2022

2 min read

Pakistan Reports 11% Higher Sugar Tax Revenues

Pakistan’s Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has reported 11% higher tax revenues from the sugar sector, following the expansion of its tax stamp and track and trace system in November last year (the system was initially launched on domestically produced tobacco products earlier in 2021).

Countries Tax Stamps Track and Trace

Sven Bergmann

18 Jan. 2022

6 min read

Economist Webinar Discusses Shift in Illicit Trade in Europe

In December last year, Economist Impact, part of the Economist Group, convened a roundtable titled ‘Continental shift: tackling illicit trade in Europe’ to discuss the fundamental changes illicit trade has undergone in Europe and to provide insights into how governments, service providers and industry need to address the issue.

Events Illicit Trade

Nicola Sudan

18 Jan. 2022

1 min read

Call for Papers for TSTF

The deadline for submitting a 200-word abstract on your proposed topic or case study is 28 January 2022.

Events

Nicola Sudan

18 Jan. 2022

1 min read

Hungary’s ANY Security Printing to Buy Romania’s Atlas

Hungary-based ANY Security Printing has signed an agreement to acquire Romanian forms production and personalisation services provider Atlas for €1.37 million ($1.55 million).

Companies

Sven Bergmann

18 Jan. 2022

5 min read

The Newest Bootleg Liquor – Counterfeit Bourbon

If you rang in the New Year with that hard-to-find bottle of bourbon you had been hunting down in off-the-beaten-path stores or through a private social media collectors’ group, you might have been getting more than you bargained for… you might have gotten counterfeit.

Excise Products Illicit Trade

Nicola Sudan

18 Jan. 2022

6 min read

Jura Workshops Look to the Future of Security Printing

Jura Security Printing recently held a series of practical workshops in Budapest, Hungary to discuss the future of security printing. This was one of the first events in the last year or so that customers and suppliers had physically travelled to in order to meet up in person, so it was filled with plenty of energy and enthusiasm.

Events Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

18 Jan. 2022

1 min read

New Family of Optical Features from OpSec Security

OpSec Security has launched OpSec® SuRe, a new family of surface relief effects for security and brand protection applications that provide striking Level 1 features.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

13 Jan. 2022

2 min read

ITSA to Host Seminar for Latin American Tax Authorities

The International Tax Stamp Association (ITSA) is inviting regional government authorities to a pre-conference seminar to discuss best practices and lessons learned in the tracking and tracing of excise products, especially tobacco and alcohol.

Associations Events Free Free

Astrid Mitchell

24 Dec. 2021

4 min read

2021 Review: A Year in Headlines

A review of this year's headlines.

Free Free

Astrid Mitchell

24 Dec. 2021

2 min read

Smartphone Authentication of Currency with ValiCash™

Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions has launched ValiCash™, an app that not only identifies high security documents, but authenticates them too, giving either a ‘Pass’ or a ‘Fail’ response almost instantaneously.

Authentication

Astrid Mitchell

24 Dec. 2021

2 min read

LVMH and SMX Partner for Sustainability

A business unit of fashion group LVMH has partnered with brand protection specialist Security Matters on a series of pilot projects to improve traceability of raw materials in the luxury goods supply chain.

Consumer & Industrial Products

Astrid Mitchell

24 Dec. 2021

4 min read

News in Brief

Digital watermarking specialist Digimarc has entered into an agreement to acquire EVRYTHNG, developers of the Product Cloud platform which links every product item to its Active Digital Identity™ on the web and joins-up product data across the value chain for visibility, validation, real time intelligence, and connection with people.

Authentication

Latest News

LumaChrome Holographic Gives Two-Factor Authentication

New De La Rue Innovations

Document Checking in Challenging Environments

Nano-Structured Features – Research Continues

News in Brief

Fluorescent Organohydrogel for Encrypting Secret Information

How Taiwan Rewards Citizens for Buying Legal Goods

Ecuador Under Pressure?

Pakistan Reports 11% Higher Sugar Tax Revenues

Economist Webinar Discusses Shift in Illicit Trade in Europe

Call for Papers for TSTF

Hungary’s ANY Security Printing to Buy Romania’s Atlas

The Newest Bootleg Liquor – Counterfeit Bourbon

Jura Workshops Look to the Future of Security Printing

New Family of Optical Features from OpSec Security

ITSA to Host Seminar for Latin American Tax Authorities

2021 Review: A Year in Headlines

Smartphone Authentication of Currency with ValiCash™

LVMH and SMX Partner for Sustainability

News in Brief

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