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World-leading identity solutions provider Veridos, a joint venture of Giesecke+Devrient and state-owned Bundesdruckerei, has announced today the conclusion of a major contract. The Ministry of Home Affairs of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, acting through the Department of Immigration and Passport (DIP), has commissioned Veridos with the supply, installation, and implementation of next generation electronic passports and border control systems in Bangladesh. The contract, with a volume of around €340 million, will run for 12 years.

Today, G+D Mobile Security announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Worldline, the European leader in payments and transactional services, to cooperate in the field of Industrial IoT (IIoT) security.

At its Annual General Meeting, the International Currency Association ICA, has elected Dr. Wolfram Seidemann, CEO of G+D Currency Technology, as its new chairman. The ICA is a not-for-profit organisation representing all suppliers of currency as well as all suppliers of products, technologies, cash-in-transit services and equipment used in the design, production, handling, and circulation of currency worldwide.

Munich, May 22, 2018 — At this year’s Money20/20 Europe event (https://europe.money2020.com/), G+D Mobile Security will showcase its fully digitalized banking customer journey, including solutions such as compliant digital customer onboarding and customer banking authentication with secure biometrics.

Munich, May 21, 2018 – Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology presents the company's solution and product portfolio with a specific focus on new security features as well as intelligent automation in the cash cycle at the Banknote Conference 2018 in Dallas, Texas.

Munich, May 17, 2018 - G+D Mobile Security and IDnow GmbH entered into a partnership to combine expertise and resources with the aim to develop AI-driven biometric and security technologies. A first result of this cooperation is the development of a fully automatic remote identification solution for international markets.

Munich, April 17, 2018 – At €2.14 billion, the global security technology group Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) once again exceeded the record revenue achieved in the previous year, with a rise of more than 2%. The adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) increased by 4% year-on-year, to €130 million. This means that G+D has more than doubled its EBIT within the last four years. All business sectors – Currency Technology, Mobile Security, Veridos, and secunet – have again made a positive contribution towards this result. G+D recorded a significantly higher net income of €67 million, a rise of 28% on the previous year.

• VERIMI’s basic product goes live and initially supports videoident • Deutsche Bank and Bundesdruckerei integrate VERIMI from the start; further shareholders and partners will follow by mid-year • Start-ups Weltsparen, Compaio and Docyet are application partners from the very beginning • Further product features such as payment and ID functions as well as eGovernment integration will be added in the coming months

Munich, Germany, February 21, 2018 – At the 2018 High Security Printing (HSP) Conference in Warsaw, the Armenian 500 dram collector’s note, which features Noah’s Ark as its main motif, was selected as Regional Banknote of the Year for the EMEA region (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). With this collector’s note, the oldest Christian country on Earth commemorates the ship in which, according to the Old Testament, Noah’s family and all the animals were saved from a biblical flood, before coming ashore on Mount Ararat.

Munich, February 27, 2018 – G+D Mobile Security drives and supports the Narrow Band-IoT (NB-IoT) market by introducing an innovative data security solution. It provides secure end-to-end NB-IoT data protection that is independent of network security mechanisms or additional cryptographic hardware that would raise the bill-of-material (BOM) of cost-sensitive IoT devices. Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), application providers and end customers alike benefit from this new approach to IoT data security. G+D Mobile Security showcases this innovative solution for secure end-to-end data protection in NB-IoT networks at its booth 7A41 in Hall 7 at this this year`s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (February 26 to March 1).