SEMINAR ONE: Design and Public Awareness – the Role of OVDs in Banknotes
Hans A M de Heij, De Nederlansche Bank 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28

9.00    Welcome and Keynote Address
Mr Alexandr Yurov, Director of Cash Circulation Department, Central Bank of Russia   

SESSION ONE: THE REGIONAL HIGH SECURITY DOCUMENT LANDSCAPE

9.15    Criteria for Feature Selection for Modified High Denomination Banknotes 
Vladimir Finogenov, Head of Currency & Counterfeiting Prevention Unit, Central Bank of Russia  

The presentation will  consider the main factors taken into account by the Bank of Russia in deciding on the necessity to upgrade the security of its banknotes, aas well as the scope of this upgrade. Monitoring trends in counterfeiting has allowed the Bank to determine the volumes and the severity of identified forgeries, while an analysis of simulation techniques determined the range of features that need to be upgraded or replaced. Public feedback  has allowed the Bank to select a set of features that are most actively checked by the public and cash operators. Patent searches and an examination of proposals put forward by security feature suppliers allowed the Bank to define a list of proposed new features, which are then tested for strenghth and resilience to counterfeiting and simulation.

9.35    Security Documents in Lithuania
Vaclovas Juknevičius and Leonas Stankevičius, Service of Technological Security of State Documents, Ministry of Finance (Lithuania) 

A system of technological security of state documents has been created in Lithuania, providing information in a state register of security documents since 2004, which could provide a blueprint for other countries in the EU. It includes the data on these documents, images of documents, information on technological security features, issuance and production and document forgery. The documents include all identity documents, breeder documents, documents relating to objects of enhanced hazard, transport documents, documents of professional qualifications and haulage documents.   

10.00   Upgraded Armenian Series
Arman Hovhannisyan, Central Bank of Armenia  

Over the course of several years  the Central Bank of Armenia has introduced a number of upgrades in its series. Design and various security features of the notes have been modified to standardise both banknote appearance and the features themselves – the same features, placed in the same area, are now used on all denominations. The following project goals were set and pursued:
•    Evaluation of security features
•    Evaluation of costs (substrate, inks, print runs)
•    Design changes and adjustments
•    Promotion and public awareness

In evaluating security features, the Bank sought to increase resistance to counterfeiting and harmonise the design, which translated into:
•    Application of foil stripes on all denominations
•    Use of silk-screen printing technology on the reverse of the notes
•    Use of Step® feature on the reverse of the notes
•    Development of a single principle of numbering for all denominations

As a result, the Bank now has an effective and easily-remembered set of features, reduction in production costs, standardised series, clear public perception and aesthetic pleasure.

10.20   The New Russian Universal E-Card
Federal Authorised Agency OJSC "Universal Electronic Card" (Russia)

Following the introduction of federal legislation in July 2010, the Russian Ministry for Economic Development unveiled its plans to launch the project for universal electronic cards for all Russian nationals in 2012. Universal electronic cards are intended to provide individuals with access to e-government services, from medical insurance and social benefits to ATMs and payment services,  eventually replacing all local, regional, and national forms of ID, from student ID cards to driving licenses. A designated organisation, OJSC “Universal Electronic Card”, has been contracted to develop the project under the authority of the Ministry . On the regional level, local authorities will designate organisations responsible for issuing and servicing cards as well as the body responsible for collecting applications from citizens for this card.

The universal electronic card project is now being implemented in seven stages and is expected to be completed by January 2013. Initial phases of the project included the preparation of the legal, administrative and technical provisions. Next was the production of the cards and the introduction of the program to relevant administrative bodies. The program required infrastructural modifications in the banking system and regional deployment as well as marketing and educational measures and introduction to test groups. The project also offers opportunities for companies targeting Russia’s large consumer market – the card aims at providing individuals with the largest possible number of useful, convenient and secure services at both regional and national levels.

The presentation will cover implementation of the project, the roles of participating organisations, various applications and services available through the card as well as the major issues involved in its deployment.

10.40   Questions

10.50   Break

SESSION TWO: TRAVEL, ID AND BORDER CONTROL 

11.20   The Universal Unique e-ID
Manuel Villamayor, NagraID Corporation (Switzerland) 

The quest is on for a secure and convenient  "Unique ID” for citizens that acts as a multi-application national identity “e-Service Card” to facilitate easy identification & authentication and access to services, help welfare programs reach intended beneficiaries and serve as basis for e-governance.

The universal and converged “e-Service ID Display Card” solution using a Password Authenticated Connection Establishment (PACE) is the most efficient and convenient solution that allow citizens to be identified and authenticated anywhere, anytime via existing channels and infrastructure. This card platform provides governments, citizens, corporations and all e-users with higher visible security, greater user-friendliness and privacy protection.  It combines all information related to an indivudal and his ID documents (national ID, resident permit, driving license, health card, weapon ID, voter card etc), providing an all-in-one secure solution for citizen IDs, corporate IDs and e-consumer IDs.

 During the presentation we will show how this works and how this solution can help governments and citizens, corporations and employees, as well as e-providers and e-users, to be more secure and go "e". 

11.40   From Civil Register to Biometric e-passports & Breeder Documents: Integrated Security Documents
Alexander Ristic, OeSD (Austria)   

The world of “identity management” has changed significantly in the last decade. Handwritten documents have been replaced by electronic passports and electronic ID-cards, the picture of the document holder is now stored on a chip and/or in a database and is complemented by digitized fingerprints. The issuance of a document, the “personalization”, is done more and more with highly sophisticated equipment, laser beams and security foils - not any more by hand. Travel information is stored electronically in databases and border controls include biometric self-service gates and body scanners. But making the document is only a part of the necessary steps to a secure identity. The personalization, the printing and storing of the holders personal data, the picture and, in some documents, the fingerprint, is a sophisticated and technically demanding process. Industrial ink-jet printers or laser-beams are used for the optical personalisation. Wireless communication devices transfer the data encrypted to the security chip. Internationally tested and proven cryptographical security mechanism ensure that only authorized access to the personal data is possible.

A secure and reliable identity is the cornerstone of our world. Many steps are necessary to ensure that people can safely use their citizens’ rights. 

12.05   Polycarbonate ID cards - Challenges and Achievements
Agata Olszyńska, Polish Security Printing Works (Poland) 

While the exceptional properties of polycarbonate has established its as the most suitable material for identity documents, document producers face a challenge to make their polycarbonate cards resistant to counterfeiting. The personalised data is the principal target for fraudsters, hence the focus is on different personalization techniques to make the forgery of this data as complicated as possible. This presentation will cover selected techniques for polycarbonate card personalization, including laser engraving connected with process of carbonization, transparent laser engraving, image laser perforation, implementaion of personalized non-flammable elements into the card body, Color photo integration into the card body, metallic inkjet printing, UV active digital printing, and personalized holograms. 

In additoin to their security properties, the presentation will cover the advantages and disadvantages of each, issuance (centralized or decentralized), required machinery and production process time.

12.25   Production Technologies for E-NID cards and Trends in Security Features
Heinz Artmann, SID-Consult (Germany)   

The presentation will cover:
-   An overview on contact, contactless, dual interface related manufacturing processes;
-   Materials - PC, PVC, PETG and trends;
-   Security features in design, print, materials, foils, personalization and trends;
-   Different printing processes and the different types of inks;
-   Production challenges – eg. security features during lamination, foil application;
-   Transponders - types of antennae, bonding technology, manufacturing equipment;
-   The sheet-fed principle - from assembly to final punched out cards – the challenges of an increase in the number of layers along with print to register and to embossed security features;
-   The web-bed principle – inline system from printed sheet to final card, including all finishing options;
-   A comparison in lamination processes.

12.45   Questions

12.55   Lunch

SESSION THREE: CURRENCY DEVELOPMENTS  

14.15   The New Swedish Series - Making Money to Save Money
Leif Jacobsson and Maria Hesselmar, Sveriges Riskbank (Sweden)  

Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) has decided to introduce a new banknote series. The main reasons for this are to strengthen the level of security and reduce cash management costs. Preparatory work has been underway since 2008. The plan at the moment is to introduce the new series in or around 2015. The banknotes will have a completely new design and prominent new security features. At the same time, a new denomination, a 200-krona banknote, will be introduced.  

The presentation will include an account of the background to the decision on the new series and an overview of the working process until today. Its focus will be on the Riksbank’s decisions regarding the banknotes’ formats and motifs, security details and technical specifications, as well as the aspects acting as guiding principles for these decisions.   

14.35   Authenticity and Quality of Security Features - Using Cognitive Neuroscience to Test Users’ Perceptions
Jane Raymond and Nikki Westoby, Secure Perceptions Research (UK)  

Good design of high value documents such as banknotes or passports should enable a wide range of people to use them efficiently, spot counterfeits easily and feel positive about the design. These properties are a matter of people’s perception, and this is not the same as their opinion. To get a clear picture of how new design elements (including security features) will be perceived and accepted by the general public or by targeted user groups, it is necessary to conduct carefully designed perception testing. A highly pertinent area of science that can inform our understanding of how the public perceives high value documents is Cognitive Neuroscience. This is the science of how the human brain processes information, chooses actions, and generates feelings. Knowledge in this area can and should be exploited to inform feature selection and document design and to improve the ways in which document perception is measured. In this presentation we discuss several points from this area of science and show how this knowledge is relevant to document design and testing.   

14.55   Design Realisation
Deborah Smith, De La Rue Currency  

Banknotes are the calling card of every nation and one of the ultimate symbols of what that country represents. Banknote Design Realisation™ is the process by which the initial design concept ideas are taken through the origination process to end up with a manufacturable banknote that is both attractive and secure. It includes bringing ideas together and working them up into a proposed concept design. This stage is of course very important from a creative point of view, but by far the largest part of the overall process in terms of investment of time is preparing that design for production, i.e. the realisation stage. De La Rue has extensive experience of both Design and Design Realisation, having worked on new banknote designs for 55 different currencies during the last  five years.  This presentation aims to give an understanding of the complexities involved in the process and the expertise that is required to ensure a successful result.

15.15   The New 200 000 Rubles Note
Viktor Sosnovsky, National Bank of the Republic of Belarus

On 12 March 2012  the National Bank of the Republic Belarus issued a new banknote worth 200,000 Rubles, doubling the face value of its highest denomination. The new note is predominantly green-coloured and depicts an art museum in the eastern city of Mogilev with the back illustrating a decorative collage of architectural elements of the museum building. A number of new sophisticated security features have been introduced including windowed security thread with motion effect characters "НБ РБ" moving up and down against each other on tilting of the note, latent multi-coloured image ""НБРБ" with each character changing its colour when the banknote is rotated without changing its viewing angle and combined multitone and electrotype watermark. This will be the first international presentation of the new note since its unveiling on March 12 and will cover the factors that lay behind its issue as well as the Bank's methodology for selecting specific security features.

15.35   Questions

15.45   Extended break and exhibition viewing

18.00   Close of first day

19.00   Conference dinner

THURSDAY, MARCH 29 

SESSION FOUR: PRINTING AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES 

9.00    Software Developments for Optimising the Workflow, Quality Control and Smart Authentication
Barna Barabas, Jura (Hungary)  

By today, most of the security printers have converted their workflow from CTF (Computer to Film) to CTP (Computer to Plate). One of the biggest challenges is how to check the files – single original or step & repeated – before they produce the plates. Together with some security and banknote printers we have developed a workflow that can provide a production-safe solution and can avoid poor plate production.  The solution is practical for designers or the Quality Control division where the materials are inspected before printing production. This software opens the gate to a new dimension of Quality Control – directly by computer before producing any print-ready material.

In addition to Quality Control, Jura offers nwe software for authentication in the form of the IQ-R track-and-trace solution. Unlike most such systems, IQ-R also incorporates a strong anti-counterfeiting solution, which makes it an ideal choice for any product that has to be protected and where 2D, QR or any B&W Code can be applied. The code (two dimensional, QR or datamatrix) acarries all the necessary production and vendor information required for track and trace purposes. The code, however, when printed on the carrying surface, is protected by a patent pending technology, which makes it virtually impossible to photocopy. And for data extraction, identification and verification, there is no need for expensive specialized equipment. Instead, IQ-R is built for the use of smart phones with two separate applications readily available, one for resellers and one for end users. most smart phones can be used to track the products, validate their authenticity and feedback the collected data to a central  

9.20    New Developments in Tax Labeling Machines
Felix Berg, Goebel (Germany)

9.45    Security Printing and Marking on Polycarbonate-Based Films
Georgios Tziovaras, Bayer Material Science (Germany)  

When it comes to printing of security documents on non-paper substrates, polycarbonate based films are the most popular plastic substrates for making such documents. The main reasons for using polycarbonate are good process ability, high security of the documents, long lifetime, and environmental friendliness.  Documents made of polycarbonate enable documents manufacturers to implement all the security features in a plastic document. This presentation will show the ways of processing polycarbonate, focused on printing and marking techniques related to this material. 

10.05   Automatic Quality Monitoring for High Value Papers – In-Line, In-Print, on Foil and Cutting Machines
Michel Popovic, In-Core Systèmes (France) 

In order to fulfill the world’s central banks' requirements, paper makers and printers have to follow the innovations and provide the banknotes or security paper with the latest security features. Each production step must be continuously monitored without any compromise in order to maintain a very high level of quality throughout all the manufacturing processes. IN-CORE Systèmes has been an established manufacturer of flexible machine–vision based inspection solutions since the late 1980s. The proven inspection and measurement systems dedicated to security features on paper for e-passport, currency and security paper can be installed in paper mills for the inspection of watermarks and secrutiy threads, as well as printworks on printing equipment, foil stamping machines and sheeters to inspect security features and geometrical compliance. Furthermore, real time sorting strategies have been developed based on multi criteria sheet analysis and statistics.

10.25   Questions

10.35   Break  

SESSION FIVE: GOVERNMENT SECURITY SOLUTIONS

11.05   Tax Stamps – Multi-Billion Market Opportunity
Nicola Sudan, Reconnaissance International (UK)  

In late 2007 Reconnaissance International published Tax Stamps: a Technical Study and Market Report, the first study of its kind to examine and analyse the evolution and implementation of tax stamp regimes around the world. But much can change in the space of just a few years. And due to demand,  the 2nd report is now being pulbished. It contains a wealth of updated facts and figures on the proliferation of tax stamp programmes around the world and the factors driving their deployment.  This presentation, from the Report’s author, will provide a cover the latest figures in terms of consumption and tax stamp usage, an overview of the new technologies that are being now being deployed, the spread of programmes from tobacco and alcohol to beverages and other excisable products and the political, regulatory and fiscal drivers that hold the key to the market’s growth. 

11.25   Doing More with Thermal Transfer Printing for Vehicle Regulation: Covert Security for Seemingly Unsecurable Printing
Viktor Goldovsky, InkSure (USA) and Pavel Dmitrikov, Interfoil Engineering (Russia)  

Thermal transfer ribbon (TTR) is a material used in a wide variety of items. It allows for each printed image to be slightly different and therefore is used for many barcodes and license plate numbers. Given its widespread use, it is important to secure the material and keep it from being counterfeited and, since TTR uses pigments, pne would think that taggants would be a natural means of covert protection.  But TTRs tend to come in very dark colors which are very difficult if not impossible for most taggants to secure.  InkSure, a taggant technology provider and Interfoil, a security printer based in St. Petersburg, started an R&D project to find a solution, devloping a chemical composition/pigment that can be tagged and not affect the characteristics of the ribbon. A trial production using tagged TTR in license plates is scheduled. Because about 80% of license plates printed with TTR, this could be a game-changer for security printing and motor vehicle regulation. 

11.50   Healthcare Fraud – the Card Strikes Back
Terhi Halminen, Gemalto (Finland) 

According to the European Health Care Fraud and Corruption Network, approximately 56 billion Euros are lost every year to healthcare fraud and corruption across the EU. The US Department of Justice reports that the Medicare Program suffers more than $60 billion in fraud every year through practices like phantom billing. The quality and confidentiality of data, the issue of claimant identification as well as the protection of entitlements are issues in all healthcare systems. The benefits of paperless, electronic medical data exchanges have not been fully tapped. 

Smart cards based solutions can contribute to the creation of personalized, online or offline services, a «patient-centric» approach with consistent databases, automatic reading of data, and eventual local storage of additional data such as allergies, chronic diseases and associated treatments. The combination of PKI together with biometrics can provide a trusted, secure and user-friendly environment, facilitate the eServices thanks to fingerprint identification (Medication distribution) and reduce cost thanks to service automation & fraud reduction.

12.10   Track and Trace for Tax Stamps for Alcohol – the Russian Experience
Petr Vihlyantcev, FGUP CenterInform (Russia)  

The presentation gives a brief historical background on the development and implementation of Unified Automated State Information System (EGAIS) in  Russia.

EGAIS was designed to provide centralised management and monitoring of the production and sales of ethanol, alcohol and alcohol-based products and was rolled out in 2006 .The state agency Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation (Rosalkogolregulirovanie) was charged with implementation and management of the system.

The state status of EGAIS allows for an effective system of monitoring of the domestic alcohol market. Products that have not been entered or accounted for in the system are deemed illegal. The relevant legislation provides for administrative responsibility for manufacturing and sales of products outside of EGAIS.

System functionality includes  the integration of produced, distributed and used (customised with variable print) federal and excise stamps, as well as secure electronic management of the accompanying documentation. Alcohol producers and importers have installed EGAIS data exchange platforms with integrated thermal transfer printers that apply two-dimensioanl barcodes and alphanumeric information containing variable data on marked products and their entry record in the central database. EGAIS platforms are linked with an automated system for measuring and recording alcohol production volumes, capturing the data from each licensed producer. Over the years, operating experience of EGAIS has allowed us to evaluate and appreciate the benefits and weaknesses of the system and determine the prospects for its further development and improvement.

12.30   Questions

12.40   Lunch 

SESSION SIX: SECURITY INNOVATIONS 

14.00   Security Inks for Digital Print
Nick Cooper, Luminescence (UK)   

This presentation will look at the way that digital technology is changing security printing.  First, it will cover how inks can now be digitally encoded using synthetic DNA. These codes can contain huge amounts of data that is totally unique and cannot be reproduced or copied even by other biochemists.  Encoded DNA is stable and can now be formulated in inks for almost all printing methods.  Next will be the development of inkjet systems and their increasing role in security print for variable data, which  has become an essential part of security documents. Nick will describe the various types of inkjet printing methods available, the benefits and drawbacks of solvent-based, water-based or UV curing technology, the security features currently available for inkjet printing and how multi-level features can be used to give a high degree of security using digital print. The final section of the presentation will look at how digital print can be used to create secure track and trace systems.  

14.20   Hyperspectral Imaging for Examination of Counterfeit Security Documents
Jeffrey Beckstead, ChemImage (USA)   

This presentation will introduce the audience to a new technique, called hyperspectral imaging, for evaluation of suspected altered or counterfeit security documents.  Hyperspectral imaging combines digital imaging and spectroscopy to provide powerful ink discrimination capabilities.  This is made possible by a state-of-the-art liquid crystal tunable filter (LCTF) technology, providing a narrow bandwidth and accurate spectral tuning to acquire detailed spectral information for every pixel in the two-dimensional image space.  This presentation will review the spectral processing functions used to identify spectral features and differences between authentic and counterfeit security features that human visual examination cannot detect. 

14.40   NanoTrace – Secure ID Personalisation During Portraits and Text Issuing
Robert von Arx, U-NICA (Switzerland)   

nanoTRACE®id secures the authenticity of an optical personalised portrait image and the associated text on identity cards and passports. The principle is based on a secure link between biometric information, personalized text and the personalized portrait image. The linkage information is encoded and stored in the personalized portrait image itself with leading-edge secure digital data-hiding methods. There is no visual degradation of the portrait image. Several years of research were invested to prove the security level and the robustness against counterfeiting as well as general degradation of identification documents from regular use. The required software modules have been developed and are fully integrated into existing personalization and document reader equipment.   

15.00   Questions

15.10   Break 

15.40   Imprinted Electronics – New Solutions for Security Print
Scott White, PragmatiC Printing (UK)  

Printed electronics has been talked about for many years now as the next big wave of the electronics industry. The ability to “print” functionality is seen as enabling a huge range of new products and applications – driven by the extremely low cost of printing compared with traditional silicon wafer processes, and by the greater range of physical form factors enabled by robust, transparent thin-film semiconductors on flexible plastic or paper substrates. This presentation describes various possibilities to leverage new technology for imprinted electronic logic in security applications, including brand protection, document authentication, and track-and-trace. It highlights the potential for unique, interactive security features either as standalone products or in combination with more conventional features such as 2D bar codes or optical microstructures. It also sets out a roadmap for the increasingly sophisticated functions enabled by imprinted electronic functionality, and how this will be delivered commercially.  

16.00   Next Generation Solutions for Banknote Security
Oleg Loginov, Goznak (Russia)   

In order to achieve a new level of security to substantially reduce the volume of counterfeiting in banknotes it is important to have a comprehensive approach to upgrading or developing a new series of banknotes. Only an integrated approach that involves all types of modern, high-tech security features can create the banknote of new generation. The presentation describes Goznak’s approach to new solutions for production of banknotes on the example of the upgraded series of the Russian rubles introduced into circulation in 2010 and 2011.

16.20   Metallised Images Based on High Speed Nano-Crystallisation in Laser Plasma - A New Generation of Featrures for Banknotes and ID Cards
Prof Dr Sergey Maksimovsky and Grigory Radutsky, Lebedev Institute of Physics, Academy of Science (Russia)  

The high-speed growth of micro- and nanostructures is possible via the action of laser pulses on a substrate with an absorbing-solution layer deposit. This phenomenon is called high-speed nano-crystallization, and is based on the application of effects discovered at the Lebedev Institute of Physics, Russian Academy of Science. One development as a result of this discovery is that copper polycrystals that can be formed inside paper, on the surface of which it is possible to obtain nano-dimensional pyramidal structures – ordered and disordered – which can be measured by an atomic microscope. The images produced via this technique provide a new method of protection of high security documents against forgery.  

16.40   Questions

16.50   Concluding remarks and close of conference

17.00   Farewell drinks 

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 You can view the programme here for the 8th Pan European High Security Printing Conference (Vienna, Austria - March 2011), or click here  to read a review of that event .