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Nicola Sudan

7 July 2021

2 min read

New Traffic Light Security Ink from GSI

Gleitsmann Security Inks (GSI) has launched what it terms the ‘world’s first traffic light for banknotes’, in the form of mouveGSI, a unique security feature that will also help safeguard security documents such as tax stamps using luminescent colour effects.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

28 June 2021

5 min read

Cigarettes Flagged as Illicit by Cloned ID Number, Not by Security Label

In France and the UK, there have been recent news stories of cigarette packs identified in the market as illicit because they were all carrying the same ID number (when this number should in fact be unique to each pack). What was not mentioned in these reports, however, was whether or not the packs were carrying authentication labels, which they are obliged to do under the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).

Authentication Countries Excise Products

ASPA Family

28 June 2021

2 min read

The Icon of the Indian Holography and Authentication Industry

The news of the untimely demise of Mr U K Gupta has left the Authentication Solution Providers’ Association (ASPA) family and the entire authentication industry in shock.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

25 May 2021

1 min read

CCL Design Partners with iTRACE Technologies

CCL Design has announced a partnership with iTRACE Technologies, a leading provider of supply chain security applications for anti-grey and anti-counterfeit markets. The partnership will integrate the iTRACE 2DMI® smartphone authentication capability with CCL Design’s HP Indigo-based security label production.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

19 May 2021

5 min read

YPB Group Launches World’s First Smartphone-Readable Tracers

The Australian brand protection and consumer engagement solutions provider YPB Group has launched MotifMicro™, its forensic, smartphone-readable, anti-counterfeit technology for high-volume applications, which will provide individualised markers for products and documents.

Authentication Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

29 April 2021

2 min read

Product Traceability and Authentication Systems: A Technology Review

Track and trace, trace and track, supply chain transparency, traceability… a confusion of terms to describe the use of an encoded unique identifier to determine the source and the pathway of an individual product.

Authentication Reports & Studies Track and Trace

Nicola Sudan

14 April 2021

2 min read

De La Rue Welcomes Over 50 Tax Authorities to Inaugural Excise Tax Protection Course

During March and early April, De La Rue ran its inaugural Excise Tax Protection Course. The six-module course, delivered as online seminars, was aimed at government excise managers and professionals and was by invitation only. De La Rue plans for the course to become an annual event.

Authentication Companies Events

Nicola Sudan

30 March 2021

2 min read

De La Rue’s Smartphone Authentication App for Holograms Leverages Power of Visual-AI

In last month’s issue of Authentication News®, we looked at the tantalising prospect of combining the analytical capability and connectivity of a smartphone with the authenticating power of a hologram, touching on how reliance on end-user knowledge of hologram features could be alleviated by the use of smartphones to verify the holograms.

Authentication

Alan Hodgson

4 Feb. 2021

5 min read

Drivers for Smart Packaging

Smart packaging is an area that is pertinent to the interests of our community. It has links to track and trace, product labelling and interaction with the brand through technology. The aim of this article is to take a wider look at trends in smart packaging and consider some of the potential implications for tax stamps and track and trace solutions.

Authentication Technology & Systems Track and Trace

Nicola Sudan

27 Jan. 2021

3 min read

Authenticating Whisky Without Touching a Drop

The Gaelic word ‘whisky’ can roughly be translated into English as ‘water’ and so it comes as no surprise that sales of the golden liquid are worth roughly £5 billion annually to Scotland’s economy. As with many premium products, whisky is a favourite target for counterfeiters, which not only takes income away from the legitimate brand owner but deprives revenue authorities of much needed taxes.

Authentication Excise Products Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

10 Dec. 2020

2 min read

YPB Group Secures Partner to Access Thailand’s Tax Stamp Market

Product authentication and consumer engagement solutions provider YPB Group (which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange) has signed a master service agreement (MSA) with a new channel partner, Specific Products, in Thailand, in order to access the high-volume tobacco and tax stamp industries in that country, according to reports in various financial media.

Authentication Companies

Nicola Sudan

30 July 2020

4 min read

Recent Developments in Document Biometrics for Tax Stamps

The term ‘biometrics’ is commonly used to describe technologies that employ human features that are unique to individuals – such as fingerprints or retinal eye patterns – as a way to identify those individuals. But the term is also employed, within the authentication industry, to describe technologies which use the intrinsic microscopic or molecular properties unique to items such as tax stamps to identify and thereby authenticate those items. Hence the term ‘document biometrics’, or ‘fingerprinting’.

Authentication Tax Stamps Technology & Systems

Latest News

New Traffic Light Security Ink from GSI

Cigarettes Flagged as Illicit by Cloned ID Number, Not by Security Label

The Icon of the Indian Holography and Authentication Industry

CCL Design Partners with iTRACE Technologies

YPB Group Launches World’s First Smartphone-Readable Tracers

Product Traceability and Authentication Systems: A Technology Review

De La Rue Welcomes Over 50 Tax Authorities to Inaugural Excise Tax Protection Course

De La Rue’s Smartphone Authentication App for Holograms Leverages Power of Visual-AI

Drivers for Smart Packaging

Authenticating Whisky Without Touching a Drop

YPB Group Secures Partner to Access Thailand’s Tax Stamp Market

Recent Developments in Document Biometrics for Tax Stamps

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