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Eco-friendly and “fair trade” produced raw materials, resource-conserving production processes, reusable packing and intelligent recycling are key considerations to obtain a sustainable product. What about the ecological footprint of a banknote over its lifecycle? Louisenthal paper mill has now examined this question. For the recently launched sustainability campaign headed “Life of a Banknote”, the international specialist of banknote paper and security foils has looked at the individual steps in the value chain and analyzed them from the viewpointof sustainability.

The pilot project with payment cards from G+D Mobile Security will be carried out by Crédit Agricole Touraine Poitou from June 2019 and is the first of its kind in France with this technology. It is scheduled for a period of six months, managed by Credit Agricole Payment Services, the market launch of the tested technology is planned for 2020. 

G+D Mobile Security's trade fair presence at MWC (Mobile World Congress) Shanghai is under the motto "Protect what matters to you". The company presents 5G-ready strategies, solutions, products and services for secure identity management.

The UITP Summit, taking place in Stockholm from June 9 to 12, is the world's largest trade fair for public transport. At booth A5140, G+D Mobile Security will present its secure mobile solutions for seamless travel offering end customers maximum convenience and enabling transport service providers to reduce costs, increase efficiency and meet the expectations of an increasingly digital society.

eSIM technology promises numerous advantages to the users of smartphones and other connected devices. Many devices now shipping all around the world are equipped with a permanently installed SIM chip on which users can easily download their network operator profiles "over the air". The activation and management of mobile phone contracts will also become much easier for both users and network operators. 

Money20/20 Europe 2019, taking place from 3rd to 5th June in Amsterdam, is Europe’s largest marketplace for ideas, connections and deals in payments, FinTech and financial services. At this event, where the ecosystem’s most influential leaders come to learn, network and do business, G+D showcases at booth E60 its digitalized E2E banking journey. This includes a digitalized KYC onboarding and identity authentication use case, a use case showing safe provisioning with tokenization, and payments via PSD2 compliant mobile authentication and biometrics.

Den ersten Platz des Wettbewerbs belegt der Entwurf des Münchner Architektenbüros 03 Architekten. Auf Platz zwei kam das ebenfalls in der bayerischen Landeshauptstadt angesiedelte Büro Henn Architekten. Den dritten Platz teilen sich Steidle Architekten aus München sowie Richard Meier & Partner aus New York und Los Angeles. 

The 15 x 8.5 centimetre paper was invented at the end of the 1960s as a cashless and cross-border means of payment. In 2019 the eurocheque, as it is officially called, will celebrate its 50th birthday: The official starting signal was given on 1 May 1969. Travellers no longer had to pack Schilling, Franc, Lira or Peseta, but could cash the cheques in many European countries. At its peak in 1988, an estimated 950 million eurocheques were issued in the respective European countries in addition to the 50 million paper cross-border payment orders.

The next generation model of XPENG Motors, a highly intelligent and high-performance coupe named P7, will be available in China with the DCK (Digital Car Key) service from G+D Mobile Security. Buyers receive two NFC (Near Field Communication) cards as digital keys with which they can open, turn on and turn off the vehicle. This makes a conventional physical car key obsolete. G+D's DCK system is also integrated in Xiaomi's NFC solution, allowing P7 drivers to receive and share their digital car keys via their Xiaomi smartphone and mobile network.

In fiscal 2018, G+D sales increased by 5 percent year over year (currency-adjusted: 7 percent) to €2.25 billion. That represents a record turnover for the company. The fiscal year ended with the G+D order backlog at €1.7 billion, which is 50 percent above the previous year’s value. Altogether, this is the highest order backlog ever achieved in G+D’s history. 

The banknote won the award for its "brilliant, beautiful and dynamic security features which correspond perfectly with each other and encourage the public to authenticate the note at first sight." The paper-embedded security features - the thread, the foil and the watermark - were supplied by Louisenthal, a subsidiary of Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH. 

New Bulgarian banknote series

„Made in Germany“ ist weltweit ein Siegel für hohe Qualität. Täglich geben Mitarbeiter aus aller Welt in deutschen Unternehmen ihr Bestes – Fremdenfeindlichkeit hat hier keinen Platz. 50 Familienbetriebe haben sich nun unter dem Motto „Made in Germany – Made by Vielfalt“ zusammengeschlossen. Die Initiative, an der sich Giesecke+Devrient beteiligt, will ein eindeutiges Signal für mehr Toleranz und Weltoffenheit senden.

The 67-member jury, made up of independent experts from all over the world, chose the BPS C5 because of its outstanding degree of innovation, the excellent functionality including ergonomics, its aesthetic appeal and the high standard with regard to environment, safety and health. Altogether, over 6,400 entries were submitted from 50 countries for the iF DESIGN AWARDS.

BPS C5 benchmark in efficiency and in design

G+D Mobile Security integrates AirOn eSIM management solution with Pelion IoT platform for quick and secure IoT device onboarding.

Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) Mobile Security has agreed on a cooperation with Arm to provide GSMA-compliant remote provisioning and management of mobility provider data and the ability to transfer IoT device profiles using eSIM. AirOn was developed by G+D Mobile Security to secure the lifecycle management of eSIMs and complies with the remote provisioning specifications for SIM data defined by the GSMA.

Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security introduces eSIM Device Enablement Service (eDES): a holistic solution for mobile network operators (MNOs) to monetize enterprise solutions and for enterprise customers to benefit from a fully digitalized mobile device management (MDM). This world-class leadership and expertise in eSIM management combines with business/operational support systems from the industry to facilitate real-time activation of eSIM capable devices.

Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security will present a reference design for safe automotive telematics control units at MWC Barcelona 2019. The solution, developed jointly with SIMCom, enables OEMs in the automotive industry to produce safe control units faster.

Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security's AirOn eSIM management platform now also meets the latest requirements in terms of management, security and connectivity in the IoT environment. The solution and service portfolio ranges from secure data provisioning in innovative NarrowBand (NB) IoT environments to the support of new SIM technologies, in particular the recently announced nuSIM by Deutsche Telekom.

Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security has developed a new solution that enables the integration of multiple security applications on a single security chip, e.g. for mobile connectivity, mobile payment, transit and other security applications. G+D will be presenting its solution for the first time at Mobile World Congress 2019.

G+D Currency Technology adds the BPS C6 to its comprehensive portfolio of banknote processing systems. The BPS C6 sets new standards in its combination of productivity, durability, and connectivity.

It has been designed as a sturdy desktop banknote processing system for heavy-duty use especially in medium-volume cash processing centers of commercial cash handlers, such as commercial banks, cash-in-transit companies (CITs) and casinos. 

Meeting increasingly demanding requirements for cash centers

Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) Mobile Security will showcase products and solutions to ensure trusted identity management at Mobile World Congress 2019. Secure digital identities that can be managed throughout the entire life cycle are the key to trust and sustainability in the evolving digital economy. They are also the basis for "Intelligent Connectivity", the central theme of this year's MWC.