 | |
 | The International Association for Identification-93rd International Educational Conference An audience of over 1,000 forensic professionals and potential customers. Face-to-face access to senior-level decision makers. A guaranteed way to generate valuable sales leads and increase your organization’s visibility. Professionals who include top-level forensic scientists prepared to make purchasing decisions. This Conference will provide the ultimate opportunity for marketing your products or services. August 17 - 23, 2008, Kentucky International Convention Center, Louisville, Kentucky, USA ...read more |
| Eighth Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference CARDIS 2008 Since 1994 CARDIS has been the foremost international conference dedicated to smart card research and applications. Every two years the scientific community congregates to present new ideas and to discuss recent developments. September 8 - 12, 2008, Royal Holloway, University London, Egham,Surrey, UK ...read more |
| 8th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition - FG2008 The IEEE conference series on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition is the premier international forum for state of the art image and video-based biometric gesture and body movement recognition. September 10 - 13, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ...read more |
| 11th Information Security COnference (ISC) ISC is an annual international conference covering research in theory and applications of Information Security. September 15 - 18, 2008, The Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan ...read more |
| Interop New York 2008 Meet with more than 200 exhibitors and see the full range of IT solutions—all in the same place. This year, Interop New York brings you four focused zones in addition to the comprehensive IT expo: Security & Compliance Zone. Evaluate IT and physical security solutions to protect your business. Start Up City. See innovations from exciting new technology companies that have been in the market for a year or less. Mobile Business Expo. Discover key mobility solutions that will revolutionize the way your people work. Web 2.0 Expo. See new tools and emerging technologies that promise to break down information boundaries and learn how to integrate into your IT organization. September 15 - 19, 2008, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York, New York, USA ...read more |
| Smart Event’08 The agenda includes: - Parallel meetings & workshops, Sept.16 - e-Smart, World e-ID, Smart Mobility conferences - Sept. 17-19 - Smart University, advanced educational program - Sept. 16-19. September 16 - 19, 2008, Sophia-Antipolis, French Riviera, France ...read more |
| 18th International Congress of Biometeorology - ICB2008 Organized by International Society of Biometeorology (ISB). September 22 - 26, 2008, Tower-Hall Funabori, Tokyo, Japan ...read more |
| NAT SEC 08 NAT SEC 08 will bring together these agencies and organizations that work on the multiple aspects of National Security including counter-terrorism and will look at how they are transforming in order to cope with changing threat scenarios throughout Europe. The conference will focus upon the following major themes; Inter-agency collaboration, Threat Detection, Threat Prevention, Threat Response. September 30 - October 2, 2008, Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium ...read more |
| The IEEE Second International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 08) BTAS 08 is the premier research meeting focused on biometrics. Its broad scope includes advances in fundamental pattern recognition techniques relevant to biometrics, new algorithms and / or technologies for biometrics, analysis of specific applications, and analysis of the social impacts of biometrics technology. September 29 - October 1, 2008, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Washington DC, USA ...read more |
| Fourth Symposium and Exhibition on ICAO MRTDs, Biometrics and Security Standards The Symposium will be complemented by an Exhibition focusing on products and services related to Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs), biometric identification, airport security biometric and border control inspection systems. October 6 - 8, 2008, ICAO Headquarters, Montreal, Quebec, Canada ...read more |
 | |
| We would like to thank to Mr. Bronislovas Degutis from Lietuvos Bankas for supporting us with specimen banknotes of 10 and 100 LTL / 2007 |
| Many thanks to our Expert Consultant for Asian region, Mr. Li Hao for supporting us with up-to-date informations about CNY and HKD currency |
| We would like to thank to Ms. Andrea Torres Vicent - Documentary Expert from Police of Investigations of Chile, for supporting us with information about passports of South American countries |
If you cannot read this email or it is not displayed correctly, please click here for the web version
07/2008
This is free of charge Newsletter of latest events (improvements) regarding Banknotes, ID cards, Cheques, Passports and our relevant products/services/updates of The Catalogue of Currencies and Documents (link to www.catalogueofcurrencies.com)
 | |
 | China issued special 10-yuan notes to mark Olympics The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, started to issuing a  commemorative banknote with a face value of 10 yuan ($1.46) from 8th July 2008 to mark the Beijing Olympic Games. The PBOC said it would issue a total of 6 million such notes, which would be circulated in the currency market with the same denomination as the ordinary 10-yuan notes. The new note, in cyan, is 148.5 millimeters long and 72 millimeters wide, according to the central bank. While the ordinary 10-yuan notes are in cobalt black, 140 millimeters long and 70 millimeters wide. ...read more |
| BOCHK Launches the Olympic Games 20 Hong Kong Dollar Commemorative Banknote On 11th July, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited (“BOCHK”) announced the launch of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Hong Kong Dollar Commemorative Banknote  (“HKD Olympic Banknote”) denominated in HKD20. There is a total of 4 million pieces of the HKD Olympic Banknote to be available for public sale from July 16 to 31 at the 50 designated branches of BOCHK. Proceeds generated from the sale of the HKD Olympic Banknote will be donated for charity cause. Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Commemorative Banknote is the first Olympic-themed banknote in the history of the Olympic Games. HKD Olympic Banknote has a far-reaching meaning as it combines the elements of the Olympic Games and charity, further promoting the spirit of the "People's Olympic". ...read more |
| New 5000 Tenge banknote has been issued into circulation The National Bank of Kazakhstan issued a 5000 Tenge note to dedicate 15-years of National currency. Banknote has almost same design as previous issue, except some improvements of security features. Banknotes of previous series remain in circulation as legal tender and will continue to circulate alongside with new ones. ...read more |
| New currency notes of Rs5 and Rs50 launched State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on 7th July launched state-of-the-art new currency notes of Rs 5 and new design of Rs 50 denomination with added security features. Announcing the issue at the launching ceremony at SBP  head office, the Governor State Bank Dr Shamshad Akhtar said that the new notes will be available from Tuesday (8th July) from all branches of SBP Banking Services Corporation (SBSC). She said the up-to-date security features incorporated in Rs 50 newly designed and new Rs 5 banknotes are of international standards and thus minimized the possibility of their counterfeiting. ...read more |
 | |
| German Cabinet Approves Disputed ID Cards, Citizenship Test On 19th July, the German cabinet gave the go-ahead for a new controversial citizenship test for immigrants and new identification cards to German citizens amid continuing fears the latter could erode privacy rights. The new ID card is the result of a compromise between conservative Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaueble, who was pushing for compulsory digital fingerprints that he said would boost security, and data-privacy proponents who argued it would erode privacy rights. ...read more |
| Self-authenticating passport for Belgium Graphic Security Systems Corporation (GSSC) and F. C. Oberthur (FCO) have teamed to produce the world's first self-authenticating passport. It was introduced in the new Belgian passport released on February 1, 2008. FCO, the French security printer which produces the Belgian passport, has added an optical decoder page in the passport opposite the data page. When placed over the photo, the decoder page verifies the presence of GSSC's Scrambled Indicia feature hidden in the holder's photo. The Scrambled Indicia feature reveals any fraudulent changes to the photo or information printed on the data page. ...read more |
| Kazakhstan to implement biometric passports Kazakhstan is ready to implement biometric passports, said on 17th July chairman of the committee of registration service and rendering of the legal assistance of the Ministry of justice of Kazakhstan Samat Abish, agency reports. In the beginning of July of this year first original samples of the Kazakhstani electronic biometric passports successfully underwent approbation, which proved its 100-per cent compatibility of the domestic samples with all international norms, requirement and technical characteristics. Approbation was conducted on the special display equipment and software, used at the bordering checkpoints of the international Changi airport of Singapore. ...read more |
| Turkmenistan introduces passports with biometric data Turkmenistan has introduced new travel passports with biometric data of Turkmen citizens as of 10 July 2008. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a relevant resolution yesterday "with the aim of further strengthening friendship relations with foreign countries and expanding mutually beneficial trade and economic, scientific, technological and cultural partnership with foreign countries, and also ensuring legitimate rights of Turkmen citizens for free travel abroad and back home," the Turkmenistan.ru correspondent in Ashgabat has learned from the press service of the Turkmen president. At the same time, the current passports of Turkmen citizens are valid for travel abroad and back home up to 10 July 2013. |
| UK cancels e-passport application upgrade program The U.K. Identity and Passport Service has scaled back plans to upgrade its electronic passport system. Millions had been spent on the Electronic Passport Application (EPA2) project upgrade. The total write-down of EPA2 assets since the project began in 2005 is Ł10.8 million, comprising Ł5.5 million in 2006-07 and Ł5.3 million in 2007-08. The figures were revealed in the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) Annual Report and Accounts for 2008, which also disclosed that the IPS spent Ł84.8 million on outsourcing services last year. In the report the IPS explained the decision to drop EPA2 and revert to "more limited" enhancements to the existing ePassport system, saying it was striving for value for money. ...read more |
 | |
Our Catalogue of Currencies was enriched by new additions this month : | |
| Venezuela - series 2007 We enriched our catalogue with complete descriptions of whole series of Venezuela banknotes which were issued into circulation at the beginning of year 2008. Full description of security features with detailed pictures and UV/IR images you can find in Venezuelan section of The Catalogue of Currencies. If you would like to access online version please click here.  |
| Papua New Guinea - new 2 PGK and 20 PGK / 2007 We enriched our catalogue with complete descriptions of 2 and 20 PGK banknotes issued into circulation on during year 2007. Full description of security features with detailed pictures and UV/IR images you can find in Papua New Guinea section of The Catalogue of Currencies. If you would like to access online version please click here.  |
 | |
Our Catalogue of Documents was enriched by new additions this month : | |
| Italy
|
| Republic of Korea
 |
If you wish to be removed from this list, please send an email to register@apis.sk with the subject line "Remove from Email List".