Building a modern currency infrastructure: Scalable, modular, and tailor-made
A robust currency infrastructure plays a crucial role in a country's economic development, with modern cash centers at its core, safeguarding the integrity and security of national currency transactions and storage.
Navigating the complexities of developing automated modern cash centers requires hardcore planning, seamless integration of all its functions, and interoperability between the systems and processes to ensure optimal success. At G+D, we leverage our extensive 170 years of experience to help the central banks, as well as the commercial banks, casinos, and cash-in-transit companies, in achieving their goals in such a turnkey scope. As a general contractor, we ensure management of every step with a single coordinated approach, mitigating risks and optimizing efficiency. From the initial planning stages of both greenfield and brownfield turnkey projects through to full operation and service, we help our customers identify and build a scale tailored to their individual needs.
When experience counts: Key benefits
- G+D as a general contractor: From consulting-only services to turnkey-ready facility solutions, we work as a dedicated point of contact
- Global presence with extensive regional insights
- A technology leader in global currency management solutions
- Solutions that are scalable, modular, and tailor-made
- Optimization through tailored software solutions, integrating advanced security measures, enhancing both redundancy and reliability
- Automation of business processes and integrated security systems ensures efficiency
From concept to completion: Key steps to success
Requirements analysis:
Our planning phase is a deep dive into understanding the country's unique cash cycle, aligning with the specific needs and goals of our customers. We engage in intensive planning and analysis, including construction consultation, systems, processes, IT, security, organizational workflows, etc., to exceed customer expectations and craft a visionary outcome for them.
We collaborate closely with our customers to develop a customized solution based on their requirements, discussions, and best practices. The modularity in our approach supports long-term planning and ensures the security of investments. From project management to solution and architectural engineering, everything is scalable and tailored to the needs. Moreover, we offer cash center solutions that pay into the sustainability goals of our customers.
Implementation:
In this phase, we focus on implementing automation, software, and integrated security. We set up and configure the hardware and software, ensuring interoperability within existing operational processes. Additionally, we train customer staff and prepare for acceptance through rigorous testing.
Service is a key element for the continual successful operation of a cash center. From training the customer staff and quality support to maintenance and lifecycle support, G+D ensures optimum availability of the systems and further comprehensive range of services all over the world.
Outsourcing Operations
As part of our extended offerings, we provide comprehensive managed services for the cash centers. Our local team of experts ensures the maintenance and optimal performance of your banknote processing systems and manages spare part logistics, making sure that your operations run smoothly without any disruptions. Moreover, we offer to fully operate your cash centers, handling all daily activities and responsibilities.
Transformative customer stories
What our customers say – Angola Cash Center Casa do Kwanza
In Angola, the National Bank partnered with G+D to build a modern, high-tech cash center. As the 7th biggest country in Africa, Angola’s population is rapidly growing, and the economy is heavily reliant on cash. The National Bank of Angola invested in the new cash center to optimize the cash cycle with the latest technology for efficient and ultra-secure processing, storage, and distribution of banknotes and coins for decades to come. Multiple sophisticated vault solutions complete this amazing large infrastructure project.
Learn more about Angola’s new flagship cash center directly from our customer in this video.
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Discover more details about how the flagship cash center in Luanda was set up to support the National Bank of Angola in serving the people and how "Casa do Kwanza" benefits the currency and treasury management in the country.
The Central Bank of Egypt
The Central Bank of Egypt is one of the most modern currency hubs on the entire African continent. At the new headquarters of the Central Bank of Egypt in New Capital Cairo, G+D acted as general contractor for the construction and turnkey set up of a complete print house with a connected cash center – and implemented a holistic security concept right from the start. Four complete printing lines ensure the secure printing of Egyptian banknotes – and from there, via a highly automated cash center, guarantee the security of the Egyptian currency from design, production, storage to distribution, throughout the entire life cycle of each banknote.
What our customers say – first fully-automated vault in Rwanda
The National Bank of Rwanda has ambitious goals: to improve its current cash center with state-of-the-art technology in order to manage the actual space restraints as well as streamlining the ongoing processes while increasing security throughout the cash center. G+D realized the complete rollout of the first fully-automated vault and vault management system in Rwanda: an optimization for more security and more efficiency.
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Discover how the National Bank of Rwanda transformed its operations with the first fully automated vault and vault management system in Rwanda: an optimization for more security and more efficiency.
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