Our Sponsors, Exhibitors & Partners
Platinum Sponsor
Landqart
Landqart AG is the only manufacturer of security paper in Switzerland, proudly upholding traditional Swiss values: quality, security, and innovation. A trusted partner to governments around the world for the supply of banknote and passport paper, our paper-polymer composite substrate, Durasafe®, is firmly at the forefront of technological development in the industry.
A platform for innovative design and security features, Durasafe® is engineered to meet the requirements of banknote issuers. It allows the notes to stay safely ahead of the counterfeiters, offers untold design possibilities, and remains familiar and easy to recognise for the general public. In circulation from Switzerland to Asia, from Africa to the Americas, Landqart’s substrates are used with confidence in the most demanding situations.
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Diamond Sponsor
Canadian Bank Note Company
Canadian Bank Note is a mission-driven organization with a clearly defined set of values and principles. We encourage our employees to have a strong sense of purpose, a high level of self-esteem and the capacity to think clearly and logically. We believe that competitive advantage is largely in the minds of our employees as represented by their capacity to turn rational ideas into action towards the accomplishment of our mission.
Our vision is to make the world a safer and better place in which to live and work in by supplying technologically advanced solutions to the prevention of fraud in specific markets, particularly those associated with the issuance of secure documents.
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Diamond Sponsor
IDEMIA
As leader in identity technologies, IDEMIA is on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer. Backed by cutting-edge R&D, IDEMIA provides unique technologies, underpinned by long-standing expertise in biometrics, cryptography, data analytics, systems and smart devices.
IDEMIA offers its public and private customers payment, connectivity, access control, travel, identity and public security solutions. Every day, around the world, IDEMIA secures billions of interactions in the physical and digital worlds.
With nearly 15,000 employees, IDEMIA is trusted by over 600 governmental organizations and more than 2,300 enterprises spread over 180 countries, with an impactful, ethical and socially responsible approach.
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Gold Sponsor
CCL Secure
CCL Secure (formerly Innovia Security) is the supplier of Guardian™, the world’s most advanced banknote substrate, which has been issued on more than 55 billion banknotes.
The company is a trusted partner to central banks worldwide who use Guardian™ polymer substrate to transform their currency’s performance via dramatically lower counterfeits, greater durability leading to significant cost savings, a cleaner note handling experience for the public, and 100% recycling of used banknotes.
Our unique PolyTeQ Services division, headed by a team of former central bankers and printers, partners with central banks and banknote printers to achieve the successful transition to Guardian‚Ñ¢ polymer banknotes and to harness the ongoing benefits, through technical advice, information and support.
CCL Secure is a division of CCL Industries which employs more than 20,000 people worldwide and operates from over 150 production facilities across 35 countries on six continents.
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Gold Sponsor
De La Rue
De La Rue’s purpose is to enable every citizen to participate securely in the global economy. As a trusted partner of governments, central banks and commercial organisations, De La Rue provides products and services that underpin the integrity of trade, personal identity and the movement of goods.
As the world’s largest designer and commercial printer of banknotes, De La Rue designs, manufactures and delivers banknotes, banknote substrates and security features to customers in a world where currency will continue to be a key part of the developing payments eco-system.
De La Rue is the world’s largest commercial printer of passports, and also creates and delivers secure product identifiers and ‘track and trace’ software for governments and commercial customers alike to help to tackle the challenge of illicit or counterfeit goods and the collection of revenue and excise duties.
De La Rue is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LON-DLAR).
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Gold Sponsor
Formas Inteligentes
Formas Inteligentes have over 50 years’ experience innovating in security printing.
We are experts in combining different techniques (holography, high security inks offset, flexo, silkscreen and intaglio, exclusive papers, cold and hot stamping, laser cuts, braille printing, QR high security codes, RFID integrations, etc) to develop any product that meets your needs and exceeds your expectations.
We have ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and ISO 14298:2013 certificate.
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Gold Sponsor
GET Group
For over 30 years, GET Group has established a global reputation as a leading provider of advanced security printing solutions, empowering more than 25 governments worldwide with highly secure and durable travel and identification documents through a robust portfolio that includes personalization printers, laser engravers, laminators and secure document inventory systems.
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Gold Sponsor
Oberthur Fiduciaire
We are a hi-tech security printer and smart card manufacturer in India specialising in tax stamps for tobacco, wines and spirits- both non-adhesive and self-adhesive with complete track and trace system to eradicate the fake stamps.
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Gold Sponsor
Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW)
Since 1919 PWPW has been implementing projects, which are strategic for a state security and its citizens. The company offers security products of the highest global quality, solutions that are commonly used both by domestic and foreign customers.
The products include banknotes, documents, stamps, cards and IT systems, so the company can provide comprehensive, end-to-end solutions to its customers.
A modern machinery park, own paper mill, design studio, printing house, personalisation centre, electronic certification centre, R&D unit and skilled IT personnel – all these areas of PWPW activity contribute to its excellence in trust and security services.
The company executes contracts for governmental institutions. PWPW products are present in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
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Gold Sponsor
Security Fibres Ltd
Security Fibres Ltd are the leading manufacturers of security features for paper. Our Rainbow Fibres, Planchettes, Threads and StarLites create an integrated security feature that is highly resistant to counterfeiting and forgery.
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Gold Sponsor
Thales
Businesses and governments rely on Thales to bring trust to the billions of digital interactions they have with people.
Our identity management and data protection technologies help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more.
More than 30,000 organisations already rely on Thales solutions to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyse vast quantities of information and encrypt data.
In early 2019, we acquired the international security company, Gemalto and have combined it with our existing digital assets to create a new leader in digital security. Every organisation around the world is in the midst of a digital transformation and stands to benefit from our joint innovations.
As the world becomes more connected, Thales makes it more secure.
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Silver Sponsor
Baldwin
Baldwin Technology Company Inc. is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of process-automation equipment and related consumables for the printing, packaging and other industrial segments, including technical textiles, chip and fiberboard, and film extrusion. Through our global footprint, Baldwin offers our customers a broad range of market-leading technologies, products and systems that enhance the quality of industrial-produced products, with a focus on improving the economic and environmental efficiency of the production process. As a total solutions provider, Baldwin not only provides new equipment to its customers, but also dedicates extensive resources to maintaining and servicing existing equipment with quality replacement parts, highly engineered consumables and engineering services that include upgrades and retrofits in addition to regular maintenance.
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Silver Sponsor
Giesecke+Devrient
Founded in 1852 as a firm of specialist printers, Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) has evolved from its traditional beginnings into an important international group of companies.
Today G+D prints banknotes and securities, and supplies security paper and banknote processing equipment, as well as complete identification systems and cards and card systems for electronic payment and telecommunications.
Throughout the company’s history, it has consistently pioneered the use of innovative technology. Security and competence are the international high-tech group’s watchwords. Its customer-focused products, systems and services make G+D a reliable partner for all organizations needing to solve complex problems in security-related fields.
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Silver Sponsor
Gleitsmann Security Inks
Gleitsmann Security Inks (GSI) has been a trusted, innovative provider of highly secure, durable and efficient inks for government entities worldwide since 1847. We continuously strive to improve our products, meeting latest requirements from our customers, i.e. Central Banks, State Printworks and Commercial Security printers. Customer centricity is not just a buzzword for GSI but has highest priority in every aspect of our operation. Our technical and commercial customer service, operating from our headquarters in Berlin, provides support within hours from receiving a customer request. Besides our standard intaglio, offset and numbering inks we also provide cost efficient varnish solutions and an environmentally friendly series of silk-screen colours. Our products are today used by more than 40 international customers.
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Silver Sponsor
Hueck Folien
HUECK FOLIEN is the respected partner of both central banks and public authorities. As a family-held, independent company HUECK FOLIEN offers tailor-made solutions with the widest range of technologies for high-security features for banknotes and documents. High-security threads, foils and laminates with premium physical and chemical resistance are all entirely developed and produced within one site.
HUECK FOLIEN can point to long-term experience in the high-security field. Indeed, the partnership with our customers is based on mutual trust and is conducted in line with stringent, internal directives regarding quality and security guarantees. Numerous intellectual property rights and patents safeguard our solutions worldwide, thus ensuring that high-tech solutions from HUECK FOLIEN secure the products of our customers in an unmistakable and unique manner.
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Silver Sponsor
Jura / PARVIS
Jura is a recognized name in the security printing market, offering solutions from document personalization, high-security prepress, and platemaking to digital security and consultancy.
Jura’s software are in function at more than 100 governmental and licensed security printers all over the world. The Corvina graphic design software family helps the designers to develop sophisticated high-resolution artworks with precision, beauty and harmony.
For the fast-developing digital security printing market, has proprietary, worldwide-patented technology to protect security products and enhance brand protection. Jura’s latest developments contain different new features with smartphone apps for security print authentication and brand protection.
Jura is the first ‘Certified Security Supplier’ company by Intergraf and VPGI.
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PARVIS is the leading provider for MES, Track & Trace, Quality Control and production management solutions for the high security printing industry.
With an experience of more than 25 years, PARVIS has been constantly investing in innovation, working in tight cooperation with its customers.
The line of solutions proposed by PARVIS include:
– Abaco-MES: for production management and traceability
– Numero: for on-line numbering inspection
– Proxima-o/p: for substrate and offset print measurement
– Proxima-i: for intaglio print measurement
– Optimark: SCMarks measurement system
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Silver Sponsor
Luminescence Sun Chemical Security
Luminescence Sun Chemical Security is part of the Sun Chemical global security solutions business unit. Through the strong corporate culture and power of our multinational parent we have access to over 22,000+ specialists in inks, pigments and coatings based all over the globe. With highly specialised Research and Development centres from which we can draw resources and knowledge, we are continuously on the search for the latest technologies to help you stay ahead of counterfeiters or other threats to your secure documents.
Luminescence Sun Chemical Security (LSCS) offers a wide range of security inks and authentication technologies for Central Banks, Revenue Authorities, ID issuers and Brand Owners.
Whether it is to upgrade or redesign your banknotes, introducing a completely new identity document, increasing your tax revenues or securing your brand, the LSCS specialists are here to help you with innovative, tailor-made solutions. Working with the highest level of confidentiality and the ethical standards that are expected from the industry.
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Silver Sponsor
Mühlbauer
Founded in 1981, the Mühlbauer Group has ever since grown to a leading global player of the security sector. With 35 production and service locations worldwide we have created a strong competence network around the globe. We specialize in innovative end-to-end ID solutions focusing on the production, personalization and issuance of secure ID cards and ePassports according to ICAO standards, and have established ourselves as a competent partner dedicated to implementing security systems. Access and border control systems, vision inspection technologies and semiconductor and RFID applications complete our comprehensive portfolio. Our clients benefit from three decades worth of experience we have gained during the lead in no less than 300 ID projects.
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Silver Sponsor
Veridos
Veridos GmbH creates secure and pioneering identification and identity solutions. Founded in January 2015, the joint venture between Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, Munich, and Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Berlin, pools the specialist expertise, the many years of experience, and the innovative power of the two largest German providers for high-security technologies to serve the international market.
Veridos offers its customers a unique product portfolio from a single source. For instance, it covers the entire value chain for passports, from paper right through to eGates.
The German company is a reliable partner valued by governments and public authorities throughout the world – so far, it can count over 70 countries among its customers. In addition to its headquarters in Berlin and the operating facility in Munich, Veridos is represented around the world including in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, the USA, and the United Arab Emirates. Veridos currently employs a workforce of approximately 400.
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Silver Sponsor
WTG Water Treatment GmbH
WTG is an engineering company and trading company for industrial goods.
Our employees have decades of experience in the field of treatment plants and industrial plant construction.This both in the planning, the execution and the site supervision.
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Exhibitor Sponsor
ELYCTIS Sas
Elyctis is an expert in secure physical and digital citizen identity, which develops innovative hardware devices and software applications to enable government and citizen sovereignty.
Created in 2008, Elyctis specializes in the development, industrialization, production and marketing of fixed and mobile readers, and software, dedicated to Secure Identity Documents (e-passport, e-ID card, e-driver license, …). Elyctis has customers in more than 50 countries worldwide using its products in a wide variety of applications:
– Government ID issuance and delivery to the citizen,
– Elections ID verification
– Citizen rights enablement,
– Border control
– Hospitality industry,
– Banking and finance,
– Know Your Customer (KYC),
– etc.
Elyctis sells its products through its network of distributors and systems integrators, to whom it provides development kits to facilitate the use of its readers and software.
Recognizing the sovereignty of citizens on their own identity, Elyctis strongly believes that the combination of chip security with scanning technologies allows to build secure, reliable, easy-to-use and cost-effective reading solutions for ID documents.
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Exhibitor Sponsor
Evolis
Cards for foolproof security!
Evolis designs, manufactures and markets a complete range of solutions for personalisation of plastic cards to print, encode and laminate cards from national identity cards to driver’s licences.
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Exhibitor Sponsor
HID Global
HID Global is the trusted source for innovative products, services, solutions, and know-how related to the creation, management, and use of secure identities for millions of end-users around the world. The company’s served markets include physical and logical access control, including strong authentication and credential management; card printing and personalisation; visitor management systems; highly secure government and citizen ID; and identification RFID technologies used in animal ID and industry and logistics applications. The company’s primary brands include ActivID®, EasyLobby®, FARGO®, IdenTrust®, LaserCard®, Lumidigm®, Quantum Secure, and HID®. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 2,700 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand.
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Exhibitor Sponsor
IN GROUPE
As global specialist in identity and secure digital services, IN Groupe is the trusted partner in the management and protection of sensitive data. By mastering the entire valuechain of the identity, IN Groupe has deployed its expertise beyond sovereign identity by extending its solutions and services to professional identities and identity of things.
The Group operates 4 reference brands, each a leader in their respective market : IN Groupe for physical and digital identity solutions for Governments and administrations, Nexus for secure identity solutions for professionals and objects, SPS for electronic components and package solutions for banking and identity, SURYS for optical and holographic components for the banknote and identity market. As a national state printing company, IN Group is a committed player in identity schemes.
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Exhibitor Sponsor
Infineon
Infineon is the leading provider of security solutions. For nearly 30 years, we have been offering the industry’s broadest portfolio addressing the increasing need for security in the connected world. Our tailored and ready-to-use security solutions serve a wide range of applications from smartcard and ID applications to embedded, mobile and Internet of Things use cases.
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Exhibitor Sponsor
IQ Structures
IQ Structures is a company creating micro and nano structures that provide products and materials with extraordinary properties to be used mainly in the fields of anti-fraud protection and optics.
The company is equipped with technologies that allow you to record and build structures with a precision of several nanometres. IQ Structures has authored many international patents and has more than 100 years of combined business experience in the protection of government and private documents and goods in over 80 countries.
Such knowledge and experience enables IQ Structures to create optical security features for protection of IDs, passports, banknotes etc. against counterfeiting.
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Exhibitor Sponsor
Luminochem
Security pigment supplier
In today’s world of rapid scientific and technological progress, security solution providers need the very best materials to make their products secure. Luminochem has a team of highly qualified researchers to develop top quality luminescent materials for different applications such as security printing, brand protection, coatings, fibers etc.
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Exhibitor Sponsor
MaskTech
Masktech is the #1 independent supplier for highest security embedded chipsets, operating systems and related middleware for electronic identification cards, travel documents and authentication solutions.
Our portfolio includes generic and customized mask solutions for state-of-the-art Common Criteria certified smart card and contactless cryptographic chipsets. The company supplies more than 30 major passport manufacturers and system integrators and holds a leading position in all of its primary product categories.
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PETREL
PETREL, a french Company, started in 1985, is one of the main producers of Security Inks, with a permanent contact with our customers , with a constant objective to develop new inks for new protection against falsifications and imitations, with inks formulated for offset, silk-screen, flexography and gravure printing processes. PETREL manufactures Security fibres and Security stitching threads.
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Exhibitor Sponsor
Regula
With over 25 years on the hi-tech market, Regula offers trustworthy security equipment for identity checks and authentication of all types of security documents including ID cards and passports. The company also develops software for automated recognition and verification of security documents. In addition, Regula experts conduct in-house training courses for customers using Regula solutions
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Exhibitor Sponsor
SELP
SELP proposes a global offer for the identification of persons and the management of payment means.
Our solutions integrate biometrics, data management, secure card issuance, digitization and global system orchestration.
The major issuers who rely on SELP appreciate the complementary nature of our products and services, which are designed to improve their customers’ lives in a secure environment.
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Exhibitor Sponsor
SEPRINTO
We are dedicated to help, accompany and maintain the follow-up of security printing production. We conciliate the antagonisms in adding a new company, full of enthusiasm, on the market, with a rich experience of over 30 years in the production and the services of banknote printing.
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SPM – Security Paper Mill
SPM – Security Paper Mill, Inc. is the leading and oldest security paper mill in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The company was founded in 1997 by Czech shareholders and continues a 50 years-old tradition of security paper production.
Security papers include various ways of protection against counterfeiting. Distinct features provide a documents protection and their security. Currently, our company produced more than 1,000 different types of security papers having unique technical specification and characteristics per customer´s requirements.
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Stardust
We are the leaders in state-of-the-art technology for Supply Chain Traceability, Document Security, and Brand Protection for the past 20 years. We provide brand owners the ability to authenticate products and materials at any point in the supply chain, from the point of origin to the end user. This enables brand owners to track and accurately identify diversion of goods and counterfeits along the supply chain, and make demonstrative claims about what is, and what is not, in their products.
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UAE Federal Authority
Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs & Port Security (ICP) was established on Sha’ban 15, 1425H corresponding to September 29, 2004 under the name “Emirates Identity Authority” under Federal Law No. (2) for the year 2004 to establish the “Population Register and Emirates Identity Card Program”, which included recording personal and vital data for all population in the state and keeping them in electronic databases in coordination with the competent authorities, and issuing the Emirates ID Card for each individual to be registered and to contain the Emirates ID number, readable data and data stored on an electronic chip, which can be used in all entities.
Since its establishment, ICP has specialized in providing identification and confirmation services of Identity for individuals to federal and local government authorities and any other entities and determining the means applicable in this regard. The Law has given ICP, for such purpose, the right to request the necessary data and information from the competent authorities in the State to serve its objectives.
The Federal Decree-Law No. 3 of 2017 is a significant and important turning point in the work of ICP after it was decided to change its name to be “Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship” and to add new functions to its Terms of Reference namely citizenship Affairs, passports, entry and residence of foreigners in the state, and transfer the terms of reference and powers assigned to the Ministry of Interior to ICP in this regard.
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Media Sponsor
Currency News
Currency News published by Currency Publications Ltd, is the only independent newsletter dedicated to the specification, production and circulation of currency. Published 12 times a year, Currency News is an authoritative one-stop source of news and analysis of the events and issues shaping the development of banknotes and coins around the world and the industries that support them.
Currency Publication Ltd is is a joint venture between Currency Research and Reconnaissance International.
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ID & Secure Document News
ID & Secure Document News is a comprehensive information source that focuses on developments in ID and travel documents.
Each monthly issue includes news, features on technologies, information on case studies and successful applications, interviews with key figures involved in specification, production, issuance and examination of ID and travel documents. ID & Secure Document News also features in-depth commentary and analysis to give you the inside track on the key players and winning technologies for the protection, production and issuance of travel and identity documents.
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Secure Identity Alliance
The Secure Identity Alliance is dedicated to supporting sustainable worldwide economic growth and prosperity through the development of trusted digital identities and the widespread adoption of secure e-Services.
The Alliance offers leadership and advisory services to governments and other public bodies; supporting the implementation of digital ID projects to accelerate the wide range of economic, public health, electoral and sustainability opportunities offered by the shift to digital service provision.
The Alliance brings together public, private and non-government organizations to foster international collaboration on Digital ID challenges and the issues of data security, citizen privacy, identity, authentication and more.
The Alliance plays a key role in sharing best practice and uncovering the new generation of eIdentity and eDocument technologies crucial to building the trusted framework on which to drive eGovernment, and global economic growth, forward.
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Smart Insights
Smart Insights, by Intelling: a blog about the Secure Transactions industry.
Smart Insights covers the smart card and secure transactions industry, its businesses, its technologies, its markets as well as its technology suppliers. Smart Insights covers all the major trends in the industry, it encompasses worldwide business, standardization bodies …
Smart Insights is brought to you by Intelling, the secure transactions industry expert. Intelling proposes services in communication, strategy, marketing and market intelligence, with a strong focus on all markets relating to the secure transactions industry.
More information atwww.smartinsights.netandwww.intelling.com
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Tax Stamp & Traceability News
Tax Stamp News is the only source of essential information about tax stamp programmes around the world.
Whether you are responsible for issuing, enforcing or supplying tax stamp programmes, our comprehensive analysis offers a valuable and timely insight into the latest issues, policies and innovative technologies.
First published in January 2009, Tax Stamp News has become the authoritative voice for all those involved in combating illicit trade and counterfeiting in tobacco, alcohol and other products.
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