Despite the increasing use of electronic payments, currency retains an important role in the payments system of every country. Two aspects of currency usage drive currency design worldwide: deterring counterfeiting and making paper currency accessible to the visually impaired. Further, among the...

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Box -- Summary -- 1 Background and Overview -- 2 Counterfeiting Technology Trends -- 3 A Systems Approach to the Counterfeiting Threat -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members -- Appendix B Features of Current U....

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Confidence and the Currency -- 1. Bordering on Alchemy -- 2. Cogniac Street Capitalism -- 3. The Bank Wars -- 4. The Western Bankers -- 5. Passing and Detecting -- 6. Ghosts in the Machine -- 7. Banking on the Nation -- Epilogue: Confidence in the Country --...

This article gives an overview of counterfeit brands in India. The article gives a reader an overall view of counterfeit brands in India with the amount of damage done to each sector. The thrust area of this article is on specific industries like FMCG, Consumer Durable, Pharmaceutical and Rural...

Confederate Treasury notes were convertible into government bonds at par. This provided an imbedded option value for the currency. Confederate interest-rate policy encouraged, and ultimately coerced, holders of Treasury notes to exchange these notes for bonds by imposing deadlines on their...