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The Catalogue of Currencies suite - milestones:

April 29, 1929

Geneva Convention:

• Delegates acknowledged that Anti-counterfeiting centers had to be established
• Anti-counterfeiting centers were obligated to co-operate in dealing with counterfeiting; new issuing, etc.

Periods after 1929

Society pressure:

• Determine, collect and publish counterfeiting data

Problem solution:

• Paper Catalogues

Turnover of 1980/1990

New break impulse:

• Development of reprographics techniques (color copies, printers, computers)
• New counterfeiting offence
• New sophisticated currencies

November 11, 1992

New society demand:

• New sophisticated device to collect and publish currency data for recognition and detection

New global solution:

• The Catalogue of Currencies - APIS software!

April 1993

Catalogue of Currencies suite released to market:

• The Catalogue of Currencies; MS DOS version 1.xx was installed in first banking house

June 1995

International conference on Anti-counterfeiting issues held in Bratislava:

• The Catalogue of Currencies; MS DOS version became an internationally accomplished product

Autumn 1996

The Catalogue of Currencies Windows version 2.xx was released

1998

Other companies (competitors) developed and released electronic versions of the Paper catalogue

1999

The Catalogue of Currencies Windows version 2.xx with automatic Internet updating of process was released

2000

The Catalogue of Currencies Windows version 2.xx with central management (installation, administration, updating) was released

2001

The Catalogue of Currencies "Thin-Client" version 3.xx suite are released as follows:

• Globe Legal Tender
• Security Features Guide
• Catalogue of Currencies Client's Drive System
• Catalogue of Currencies Standard
• Catalogue of Currencies CS

2002

Biggest installation of The Catalogue of Currencies "Thin-Client", v3.xx had been done (Intranet with 12 000 workstations)

2003

New language mutations: Chinese, Russian

2004

New language mutations: Spanish, German