A Confluence of Innovation, Design, Security and Technology at HSP Asia
The 2023 High-Security Printing™ (HSP) Asia conference took place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 4-6 December, following a four-year break due to the pandemic. This marked the conference’s first appearance in Sri Lanka, featuring a well-organised programme and a diverse audience of specialists.
The conference hosted 230 delegates from 102 organisations across 37 countries. It spanned three days, including pre-conference workshops on identity and currency.
The identity workshop was hosted by ID technology company Onfido, which addressed the growing demand for self-service and online document authentication and the challenges global organisations face to stop targeted attacks in a document-not-present environment.
There were two currency workshops, the first hosted by counterfeit expert Kerre Corbin. She described how a father and son operation was sentenced in 2022 for manufacturing £977,000 worth of counterfeit Scottish banknotes. The notes were printed at a legitimate printing shop and then taken to the son’s house to simulate the security features, including holograms, windowed threads and UV patterns.
The second currency workshop was led by cash security consultants Secura Monde International, focusing on the importance of, and interaction between, the various machine-readable technologies available on the market today. These included both level 2 features used by the commercial sector and level 3 features used by central banks.
The following day, the main conference programme was launched with a welcome address by the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Dr P Nandalal Weerasinghe, followed by an overview of currency management in the country. John Winchcombe of Reconnaissance then shared the latest cash trends and developments across the Asian region.
The programme was subsequently divided into parallel tracks for currency and travel/identity documents, allowing delegates to choose their areas of interest. The sessions covered the critical themes of the identity and currency lifecycle, from innovation, design, security, production and automation to recycling and sustainability. In all, over 40 presentations were delivered.
Some highlights included:
- Note Printing Australia’s presentation of its award-winning R-Series passport. The newly released passport provided an interesting example of using UV-based features to complement and enhance overt and covert design elements such as impregnated substrate fibres, multi-coloured StarLites™ (planchettes), earthy-coloured stitching threads, and full-colour offset-printed images.
- Landqart presented a physical/digital innovation based on its Durasafe® Certify paper-polymer composite substrate and TECH5’s technologies for issuance and offline verification of digital IDs.
- Gleitsmann Security Inks, now part of IN Groupe, presented its mouveink traffic light and mouveink polar security features, which, through a combination of proprietary pigments in one single ink, provide a series of unique effects under UV light, including an afterglow.
- IQ Structures presented its IQ Check solution incorporating machine-readable holograms, for applications ranging from ID cards to brand protection. The solution works by the user tilting the hologram up and down and from side to side, in front of a smartphone camera equipped with a special app, so that the camera can pick up the hologram’s unique visual effects and subsequently authenticate it. The hologram is created from micro-segmentation technology, where any attempt to manipulate it ends up disintegrating the hologram into thousands of miniature parts.
- Micaal Sidorov, General Secretary of the International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA), unveiled the Security Image Register. This expansion of the Hologram Image Register will enable feature developers, printers and issuers to register all their optically variable features in a secure registry to help protect copyrights and avoid lookalikes (see ABN’s sister publication Holography News®, December 2023).
- On the sustainability front, Hunkeler Systems reviewed how central banks are disposing of unfit banknotes, pointing out that mixed substrates are becoming the norm and that separation is crucial to destruction. Then, Brazil-based Blendpaper explained how it could recycle both waste from the paper-making process and shredded printed banknote paper waste for reuse in the production of new paper.
Regional awards
Another highlight of the conference was the presentation of the regional HSP Asia awards (HSPA), with three categories for Banknote of the Year and three for ID Document of the Year.
And the winners this year were:
Regional banknote
- Best New Series – National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic for its 5th banknote series
- Best New Banknote – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for the 1,000 Piso
- Best New Commemorative Banknote – jointly awarded to the Central Bank of Samoa and China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation.
Regional ID Document
- Best New ePassport – Australian Passport Office for the new R-series passport
- Best New ID card – the Philippines for its national ID card.
The next HSP Asia will be held from 2-4 December 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Yes! I am very pleased about the outstanding quality of most of the presentations! I got a fantastic insight in the different branches and issues covering banknote printing as well as the challenging future.
The combination of meeting business partners and customers while being well supported by friendly and competent Reconnaissance staff makes HSP conferences very attractive to us. Thanks for another great event at a very nice location.
Reserves banks and high security manufacturing suppliers across the world share the knowledge, technology and facilities world wide to ensure reliability, safety and accuracy of high security documents of sovereign nature.
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Extremely interesting sessions. Very well organised and plenty of occasions for networking with other delegates.
Great atmosphere, great people, great organisation, great time, great location and great presenters.
Outstanding experience, cozy atmosphere and perfect organisation as usual. Thank you.
Attendees
This conference is a bowl of opportunities and knowledge.
Very good conference. Particularly enjoyed the gala dinner.
Good presentations, good attendance and always well organised.
Programme
Sunday 3 December 2023
10:30 – 17:00- De La Rue invites you to “Future of Banknotes” seminar series, followed by Afternoon Tea at the British High Commission in Colombo.
Monday 4 December 2023
09:00 – 12:30 Operation Timerbrier- A Counterfeiters Fall from Glory
A father and son team were sentenced in December 2022 after pleading guilty to manufacturing £977,000 worth of counterfeit banknotes. This is their story.
09:00 – 12:30 Identity Document Fraud in an Online Environment – The Challenges of Digital ID Verification
Michael van Gestel & Simon Horswell, Onfido
With the digital revolution of the 21st century, millennials, governments, and corporations have increasing requirements for self-service, quick and reliable document authentication remotely and at scale. The revolution is upon us and fraudsters have access to better technology, leaked data and a vast library of faces from social media.
13:30 – 17:00 The Next Level – Mastering Machine Authentication
Jonathan Ward & Martin Arkwright, Secura Monde International
The efficient handling of high volumes of banknotes requires machine handling to count, fitness check and authenticate the banknotes. Machine readable security features have been included in banknotes, therefore, for many decades.
Tuesday 5 December 2023
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Currency and Identity Documents in Asia-Pacific
09:00
Welcome Address
Dr. P. Nandalal Weerasinghe
Central Bank of Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka)
09:15
Cash Usage and Trends Across Asia
John Winchcombe
Currency News (UK)
09:35
Sri Lankan Experiences: Currency Management, Quality Improvement and Counterfeit Deterrents
M C Dilhan de Silva
Central Bank of Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka)
09:55
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Philippines Statistics Authority (Sri Lanka)
Currency Developments
11:30
Power to the Print – Komori Corporation, 100 Years of Design and Manufacturing Excellence
Phil Holland
Komori Corporation (Japan)
11:50
Successfully Managing Polymer in Diverse Environments
Nikki Strickland
De La Rue (United Kingdom)
12:10
Brilliant Movement for Highest Security
Michael Ritschewald
Hueck Folien GmbH (Austria)
12:30
Cutting-Edge Technologies Activate the Ancient Chinese Painting: China issued four commemorative banknotes for the 24th Beijing Winter Olympic Games
Shao Zhenyu
China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (CBPM) (China)
Developments in National ID and Passports
11:30
A Landscape of Pakistan ID and Secure Documents
Syed Faizan Haider Shah
Pakistan Security Printing Corporation (Pakistan)
11:50
Exploring New Security Features For Polycarbonate ID Documents
Christoph Husmann
De La Rue (United Kingdom)
12:10
Evolution of the Australian R Series Passport
Nuwan Kalpage
Note Printing Australia (Australia)
12:30
Bringing Physical Documents into the Digital Realm
Richard Perera
Landqart AG (Switzerland)
Design & Security
14:20
Banking on Heritage
Rukmini Dahanukar
MoneyTalks (India)
14:40
Durability and Creativity go Hand in Hand
Richard Perera
Landqart AG (Switzerland)
15:00
Latest Security Thread Technologies
Julien Gillot
Oberthur Fiduciaire (France)
15:20
KINEGRAM® Security Features – The Clearest and Most Intuitive Mark of the Genuine Banknote
Thomas Kleindienst
Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co KG (Germany)
15:40
Innovative Security Feature for Banknotes: Moov™ Series by Surys
Abderrahmane Belmaachi
SURYS - IN Groupe (France)
Design & Security
14:20
How Impeccable Design in Identity Solution is Critical to Achieving the Benefits of eGovernment?
Kenny Ching
HID Global (UK)
14:40
Innovative, Secure and Adaptative Solutions to Secure the ID Cards and Access all Services – A Case Study of the Togo HealthCare Card
George Lam
IN Groupe (France)
15:00
Leveraging Specialty Films to Enable Highly Secure ID cards and all-in-one Passport Concepts
Henry Leung
Covestro (Germany)
15:20
Advanced Technology for Securing the Holder’s Primary and Secondary Images
Florian Pacquelin
Veridos (Germany)
15:40
Facial Morphing. How to Protect Against It
Nadezhda Beliatskaya
Regula Forensics (Latvia)
Wednesday 6 December 2023
Currency Production and Automation
9:00
Banknote Security as a Complete System
Jürgen Kaufmann
G+D Currency Technology (Germany)
9:20
Creating Value vs. Cost Reduction: Defining the Future Role of Banknotes in Society
Aurélie Berthon
Koenig & Bauer AG (Switzerland)
9:40
Vacuumatic – Adding Efficiency to Production
Sandra Emde
Vacuumatic Maschinen (Germany)
10:00
New Kyrgyz Banknotes: Challenges and Achievements
Dana Saifullina
National Bank of Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan)
10:20
Enabling Customers’ Right to Choose – Innovation in Security Features
Peter Dietrich
Gleitsmann Security Inks (Germany)
Substrates, Features and Secure Docs
9:00
New Generation of Dynamic Luminescent Inks Based on Nanotechnology to Prevent Counterfeiting
Àlex Julià Lopez
Distinkt SL (Spain)
9:20
Why Everything is Better in Colour – How to Prevent ID Document Fraud
Belur S Nagabhushana
IDEMIA Smart Identity (France)
9:40
Smartphone Authentication
Chander Shekhar Jeena
Reconnaissance International (UK)
10:00
State-of-the-art Security Technologies in the Production of Passports, based on PWPW’s Promotional Passport.
Anna Przybylska
Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW) (Poland)
10:20
Benefits of a Passport Card in a Philippine Setting
Melon Carlo M. Santiago
APO Production Unit (Philippines)
Recycling and Sustainability
11:40
Towards a More Secure, Efficient & Sustainable Cash Cycle
John Lucas
SICPA SA (Switzerland)
12:00
Sustainability in the Destruction Process of Banknotes
Gabriel Moser
Hunkeler Systeme AG (Switzerland)
12:20
Printed Currency from 100% of Waste Banknotes
Alexandre Ambrozio Gilberti
Blendpaper (Brazil)
Digital and Payments Identity
11:40
How Digital Mobile Based Solutions Complement Physical Document Use Cases
Fabiola Bellersheim
Veridos (Germany)
12:00
Electronic Identity Specific to India
Sunil Kumar Chakrabarti
Ex Additional Registrar General (India)
12:20
Mobile Financial Services (MFS) in Bangladesh: Expectation vs. Reality
Mohammad Shariar Nafees
NaxRo / Bangladesh (Bangladesh)
Technology & Innovation
14:30
Mobile Banknote Authentication SPAS 2.0
Barna Barabas
Jura JSP (Hungary)
14:50
Smartphone Readable Optical Security Features for the Protection of Banknotes, Identity Documents and Precious Metals
Robert Dvorak
IQ Structures (Czech Republic)
15:10
Central Bank Solutions
Hervé Guillerey
Koenig & Bauer AG (Switzerland)
15:30
IHMA The Next Frontier for Security Images
Micaal Sidorov
IHMA (UK)
Sponsors
Thank you to our 2023 Sponsors and Exhibitors
Many thanks to the following sponsors and exhibitors for taking part in our wonderful exhibition running alongside the conference:
Platinum – De La Rue
Diamond – Madras Security Printers
Gold – China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (CBPM), Koenig & Bauer, Komori, Landqart, Oberthur Fiduciaire
Silver – HID Global, IN Groupe, IQ Structures, Jura/PARVIS, Luminescence Sun Chemical Security, Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW), Security Fibres Ltd, SICPA, WTG Water Treatment Gmbh
Exhibitors – FNMT – Real Casa de la Moneda, GWT Wasser- und Wärmetechnik/SEPRINTO, Hunkeler Systeme AG, MaskTech, Papeteries de Vizille, Petrel, Regula, Schwarz Druck, Stardust Secured, ZEISER