The Central Bank of Bahamas has launched the third denomination of their CRISP banknote series, the $20 banknote featuring De La Rue’s Active™ thread. The Central Bank of the Bahamas is gradually issuing their CRISP (Counterfeit Resistant Integrated Security Product) Evolution banknote series, having already issued the 10 dollar denomination in 2016 and the 1 dollar…
De La Rue launches Ignite®, a new liquid crystal colour shifting security thread with advanced optical microstructure technologies. De La Rue’s latest banknote security feature, Ignite®, was launched this week at the Mint & Print International 2018 conference being held in Lebanon. According to De La Rue, its new thread is a highly complex, technological innovation that…
De La Rue plc (DLR) has announced the appointment of Helen Willis as the Chief Financial Officer as well as an Executive Director of the Company. The announcement was made today on the DLR website. Helen Willis, who joined DLR in April 2018 as the interim CFO in April 2018, will take the CFO role with immediate effect,…
MyImage™, a new optically variable security feature has been launched today by De La Rue in partnership with Opalux, a producer of level 1 public recognition security features. De La Rue and Opalux partnered in October 2017, this is the first in a series of security features planned by the two companies. MyImage™, launched at the SDW…
De La Rue has confirmed that the recently issued Botswana 10-pula banknote is the first circulating note to include its Gemini™ Microtext security feature. The Gemini™ Microtext security feature from De La Rue is an evolution of its Gemini™ ultraviolet (UV) security feature, which consists of a combination of two colour matched inks that fluoresce under UV illumination…
PNO Global, supplier of banknote varnish and solutions for fitness sorting, quality control and counterfeit analysis, has entered into a joint development agreement with De La Rue. PNO Global is the producer of the Snowfish® banknote sorter range. The partnership between the two companies is intended to incorporate “joint product development and related sales execution on…
De La Rue (DLR) has opened its new product authentication facility in Malta, which will produce tax stamps, authentication and brand products including protection labels for Microsoft. According to DLR, the facility, which was opened today by the Prime Minister of Malta on 24 April 2018, is a centre of excellence across Currency, Identity and Brand…
The new ten pound banknote from the Bank of Scotland has begun to circulate, printed on De La Rue’s Safeguard® polymer substrate. Like its predecessor, the new ten pound banknote features portraits of Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet, Sir Walter Scott, as well as illustrations of the Bank of Scotland’s Head Office, The Mound, and Scotland’s…
The Royal Bank of Scotland has begun circulating its latest polymer banknote, the ten pound note, printed by De La Rue on Safeguard® substrate. It is the first time in thirty years that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has issued a new £10 banknote design. The new note, which features mathematician and astronomer Mary Somerville, is…
The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that it will issue its new polymer £10 banknote printed on SafeGuard® substrate on 4 October 2017. It is the first time in thirty years that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has issued a new £10 banknote design. The banknote denomination is the second in the RBS “Fabric of Nature”…