Cash Per Diem
Presented here are the daily contributions of a central banker… these are various stories to do with currency and related issues that range from the interesting to the bizarre…
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March 10 2010
Canada – bust US note counterfeiting gang
Canada – on the use of cash relative to other payment instruments – some ruminations
Russia – policeman swallows banknotes to avoid being charged with bribery
UK – risk of online banking fraud
US/Kentucky – check counterfeiting
US/Texas – high school counterfeiting
US/Virginia – about identity theft
March 9 2010
Brinks – a thorough business analysis
Canada – more polymer coverage
DataLogic Scanning – authentication tester
UK – 1m pound counterfeit cash gang
UK – Adam Smith on new banknote
UK – counterfeiting of the Elgar note forced its replacement
US/Illinois – fake travellers cheques
US/Michigan – check cashing ring
US/Minnesota – identity theft & counterfeiting ring
March 6-8 2010
Nigeria – alternatives for loading ATMs
Russia – patent for banknote inspection system
Sri Lanka – currency processing
Thailand – credit card hacker to be extradited to the US
UK – Elgar 10 pound banknote being withdrawn from circulation
US/California – skimming at the gas pump
US/Iowa – counterfeiting charges
US/Tennessee – high school students & counterfeiting
US/Washington – massive check fraud
US/Washington DC – Pentagon shooter had idea for a kind of electronic currency
March 5 2010
Canada – polymer substrate is coming
Canada – more polymer coverage
Nigeria – Soludo, CBN & Securency
South Africa – significant counterfeit note problem
UK – Bank of England note circulation scheme
UK – Bank of England note circulation scheme background material
US – new US$100 design will be released April 21
US – speculations on the redesign of US currency
US – small banks are not immune from check fraud
US/Colorado – turning $5s into $100s
US/Kentucky – 100 indicted in check fraud ring
US/Pennsylvania – counterfeits
US/South Carolina – check fraud ring
March 4 2010
Canada – jail-breaking counterfeiter is captured
Do gold bars contain tungsten?
India – the changing face of the currency
Kenya – cash-in-transit revamp
Nigeria – what to do with the non-polymer substrate notes?
Qatar – vending machines, coins & banknotes in conflict
South Africa – flood of counterfeit R200 notes
South Africa – bizarre cash-in-transit attack
UAE – possible fraud against central bank
UK – vibrating banknote detector for the blind
US – Orrin Hatch proposes to replace Grant on the $50 with Reagan
US/Massachusetts – counterfeits
Wincor Nixdorf & Hypovereinsbank24
March 2-3 2010
Fiserv webinar on 3/9 on ATM management
Fiserv – promoting cash optimization
India – more secure cheques to be introduced
Iran – Ahmadinejad accuses US of massive counterfeiting of its own currency
Japan – possible Yen counterfeiting
JDSU gets recommendation of Jim Cramer
North Korea – still counterfeiting US$100s?
US – State Department INCSR Volume 2 – Money Laundering & Financial Crimes
US – when the federal government took over banknote issuance in the US
US/California – buying gift cards with counterfeit money
US/Colorado – counterfeits in Aspen
US/Florida – counterfeit check losses
US/North Carolina – counterfeit money orders
Verayo – unclonable circuits use silicon DNA
WSFS Cash Connect wins banking innovation award
February 27-March 1 2010
Australia – nanotechnology & banknote printing machines
Belgium – a book on the largest diamond heist in history
Cellphones let people point-click-purchase
Ghana – business reaction to new note
India – an official currency sign
InXitu – authenticating drugs & products with x-rays
Malaysia – allegations that Bank Negara received bribes from Securency
MorphisOnline & ATM cash supply/demand forecasting
Myanmar – possible life imprisonment for counterfeiting
UK – counterfeit coin making goes to jail
US – retailers & counterfeit cards
US/Alabama – counterfeiters captured
US/Connecticut – cash vault theft may involve more than Webster Bank
US/Massachusetts – what is Newton to do with all those Canadian coins?
US/New York – counterfeit stamps
US/Oklahoma – counterfeits at a “gentlemen’s club”
US/Washington DC – counterfeit checks
February 26 2010
G&D – the history of banknote printing
Philippines – currency printing
UK – currency gang members jailed
US/Missouri – visiting the FRB KC money museum
February 24-25 2010
Applied DNA & putting UK robbers in jail
Austria – counterfeit euros picked up at UK post office ruin man’s vacation
Europe – counterfeit euro coins
India – defending against counterfeits
Mobile phone can detect counterfeit money
UK – Swedish 100 kroner banknote not worth 100 pounds
US/Massachusetts – Bulgarians caught skimming ATMs
US/Missouri – counterfeit case
US/North Carolina – spotting fake bills
Zambia – counterfeiters go to jail
February 23 2010
American Bank Note – duochrome ink
Bulgaria – fear of counterfeits unjustified
Israel – women added to currency design committee
NanoGuardian – authenticating medicines
Simons Security Systems – micro colour codes
UK – the cocaine on your banknotes
US/Connecticut – counterfeit checks
US/New York – making $5s into $100s
US/Pennsylvania – counterfeiting Coinstar receipts
February 20-22 2010
Canada – another arrest for counterfeiting on PEI
Estonia – introducing the euro
Germany – Bulgarian ATM skimming gang caught
GSSC & Sun Chemical & authentication products
Kenya – cash validating machine
Philippines – public disdain about the coin shortage
Philippines – Sicpa pushing its authentication technology
US Bank – remote cash handling services
US/Alabama – counterfeiter sentences
US/Connecticut – counterfeit travellers cheques
February 19 2010
Applied DNA Sciences & Safe Solution AB
Canada – father urges prison escapee & counterfeiter to turn himself in
Document Security Systems vs ECB – some news coverage
EDAPS, holograms & cigarette pack authentication
Fortress Paper loan for factory revamp
India – international check fraud scheme
Patent round-up for pharmaceutical authentication
Philippines – citizens urged to use their coins
UK - a brief history of payments in the UK – from the BBC
UK – former comedian acquitted in counterfeit pound coin case
US – criticizing the new penny design
US/California – $5s turned into $100s
US/Connecticut – counterfeits at casinos
February 18 2010
Canada – counterfeits in Nova Scotia
Canada – cocaine, marijuana & counterfeit cash
Document Security Systems vs the ECB – next chapter
Document Security Systems & Premier Packaging
Kenya – armed police escorts for G4S cash in transit runs
UK – fake 20 pound note warning
US/North Carolina – counterfeit check scheme involving the homeless
US/South Carolina – making legal tender into illegal tender
February 17 2010
Austria – skier trapped on a chairlift for six hours burns cash to stave off hypothermia
Canada – prison escapee implicated in counterfeiting
Czech Republic – money exhibit
G&D – security platform for mobile phones
India – counterfeit cheque ring
Japan – world’s largest gold bar
New Zealand – this house has a secret vault to hold cash, shouldn’t everybody?
South Africa – large counterfeit bust
US/Arizona – counterfeits & meth
US/California – travellers cheque fraud ring
US/Michigan – towns get their own currency
US/North Dakota – counterfeits in the neighborhood
US/Wisconsin – counterfeit passed “by accident”
February 13-16 2010
Argentina – trial begins in country’s “robbery of the century”
Banknotes – study of the world banknote industry
Belgium – book on the diamond heist of the century
Canada – counterfeiter escapes from jail
Chile – Mint director fired over mispelling on coin
Crime Prevention Products Ltd – using UV to authenticate currency & other products
Fortress Paper – IVQ 2009 financial results
Packaging market & product authentication study
Pakistan – history of currency design
Philippines – counterfeiter killed in a shootout
South Africa – stealing cash from a casino, a perfect crime?
UK – online fraud report from OFT
US/Massachusetts – counterfeits
US/New Mexico – counterfeit task force
February 12 2010
Coinstar earnings call transcript
India – counterfeiter convicted 20 years later
Malaysia – problems with discolored banknotes
Malta – counterfeit credit cards
Philippines – seminars on counterfeit detection
Securency & the mass production of organic solar cells
UK – university lab says chip-&-pin can be easily defeated
UK – card associations dismiss allegations of easy chip-&-pin fraud
US – is there a solution in the offing for the penny & nickel?
US – historical costs for producing the penny & nickel
US/Indiana – counterfeit checks
February 11 2010
Burma – smuggling counterfeit notes into India?
China – woman tries to use obsolete Kuomintang era note to make a payment
EDAPS Consortium anticounterfeiting products
Europe – Europol & the fighting of counterfeit euros
Ghana – problems with biometric cards
India – man caught with 1m in counterfeit euros
Iraq – knocking three zeros off the currency
Netherlands – will cash be extinct by 2015?
Rwanda – DeLaRue & identity cards
South Korea – mobile wallets wallowing in regulation
Switzerland – national bank resists putting Roger Federer on a banknote
US/Colorado – identity thief sentenced to 13 years in jail
US/Connecticut – more on the $12m money vault embezzlement
US/Michigan – MSU anti-counterfeiting course
US/Michigan – counterfeiting pleads guilty
US/Minnesota – credit card fraud
February 9-10 2010
Bangladesh – public official supposedly admits to Indian currency smuggling
India – someone other than Gandhi should be on the banknote
JDSU & authenticating of pharmaceuticals
Singapore – jail for Indonesian counterfeiters
Sri Lanka – new 1000 rupee note
Tidel – coin recycler/dispenser
US – Free Competition in Currency Act (Ron Paul)
US – suggestions on how the US dollar could be redesigned
US/California – counterfeit case
US/Connecticut – Webster Bank cash vault fraud
US/New York – counterfeits & heroin
February 6-8 2010
Algeria – investigation of counterfeit dinars made in France
Australia – coin casting machine
India – prime minister asserts counterfeits are coming across the border from Pakistan
India – RBI defending against counterfeit incursions
Japan – the future of currency recycling?
Malaysia – banknotes barely survive the wash
Trinidad & Tobago – counterfeits
US/California – a dollar bill’s WWII war story
US/Florida – what to do if your ATM dispenses counterfeits
February 4-5 2010
Celent – tales of remote cash capture
India – unique security ink developed by nuclear lab for banknotes
Indonesia – coin issuance delayed
North Korea – did currency flop drive country to crisis
Tellermate & cash management efficiency
UK – fake notes sold to schoolchildren
US/Michigan – $15m check fraud
US/Oregon – grandfather, grandson, counterfeiting
Wincor Nixdorf ATM cash cassette patent
February 2-3 2010
Anti-counterfeiting for mobile phones involves G&D, SAP & Nokia
Brazil – new currency is friendly to the blind
Fortress Paper – financing for new banknote machine
India – counterfeit cases being tried in federal court system
Ireland – cash machine attacks
North Korea – finance official sacked over redenominating the currency
North Korea – starvation spreads after currency change
Philippines – BSP purchase of note printing equipment is stalled
US – preventing check, ACH & wire transfer fraud
US/California – counterfeiting & car crashes
US/California – large scale check fraud
US/Massachusetts – Webster Bank defrauded in cash handling
US/Tennessee – bungling counterfeiters go to jail
US/Texas – Houston bank distributes counterfeits
January 30 – February 1 2010
Coinstar – patent application approved
Colombia – euro counterfeiting operation discovered in Bogota
Europe – the E500 note and the drug trade
G&D delivers 10,000th Numeron system
India – RBI to establish paper mill to help combat counterfeiting
India – accusations that Pakistan’s ISI is promoting Indian counterfeits
Kuwait – counterfeits being smuggled in from Syria
Oliver-Wyman report – the future of the world financial system
Oliver-Wyman report – the state of the financial industry 2010
US – 15 things you never knew about a US$1
US – on product counterfeiting
US/Arizona – theft of a cash exhibit from Yuma courthouse
US/California – credit card scammer
US/Massachusetts – ATM theft case
US/Massachusetts – counterfeits
US/Nevada – a burst of ATM fraud
US/Oregon – how not to forge a check
January 28-29 2010
Canada – combatting counterfeit bus passes
Cummins-Allison hooks up with DeLaRue
Nepal – counterfeiting Indian currency
UK – the rising tide of internet crime
US/Georgia – strange tale of used cars and counterfeiting
Wells Fargo banking history museum
January 27 2010
Bangladesh – near perfect forgeries
Canada – counterfeit cheque ring
China – rare collectable banknote sells for 80,000 pounds
Landqart (Fortress Paper) increasing its banknote paper manufacturing capacity
NCR – powering over 2 million service points worldwide
Philippines – fake US currency
UK – some suspected counterfeit 1 pound coins are actually genuine
US/Illinois – large counterfeit check ring busted
US/New Hampshire – counterfeit travellers cheques
Wincor-Nixdorf – new technology means better security & lower cash handling cost
January 26 2010
Belgium & others mint eurodollar test coins
China – counterfeit seizures in the last year
DeLaRue – increase in banknote production volumes
DeLaRue – Financial Times take on the business
India – counterfeit & drug smuggling
Saudi Arabia – counting currency
US/Kansas – ATM emptied of all its contents with vendor’s PIN
US/Maryland – drugs, counterfeits & firebombings
US/Missouri – counterfeiter sentenced
US/New Jersey – making $5s into $100s in East Rutherford (of all places)
US/Tennessee – counterfeit checks
US/Virginia – identity thief sentences to 200 months in prison
US/Washington – counterfeits in the neighborhood
Wincor-Nixdorf – cash handling developments in Europe
Zimbabwe – inflation is now just 5% (officially anyway)
January 23-25 2010
Abu Dhabi – attempt to defraud the central bank
Canada – Bank of Canada Karsh exhibit
Cybercrime is a growth industry
Haiti – distributing cash post-earthquake
Nigeria – about the polymer note
North Korea – turning to barter amidst currency change chaos
Pakistan – new banknote with OVI
Saudi Arabia – currency counting machines
South Africa – cash in transit mastermind is caught
UK – fake 1 pound coins figure prominently in the annals of 2009 frauds
US – counterfeit check scam aimed at law firms
US/Maryland – firebomb/counterfeit ring
Vietnam – US$2s in demand for Tet holiday
Zimbabwe & the quantity theory of money
January 22 2010
India – designing a new symbol for the rupee
Kenya – new armored cash vehicle introduced to protect vulnerable cash-in-transit
Philippines – counterfeit warning
UK – card fraud ringleader pleads guilty
US – combatting enterprise fraud
US/North Carolina – counterfeits
Zambia – counterfeits & money laundering
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