The prestigious Regional Banknote and ID Document of the Year Awards form part of the industry’s High Security Printing™ EMEA conference. This year’s event was held on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, with the awards presented at a special ceremony in the stunning grounds of the W Hotel, during the conference dinner on 8 March 2023.

IDEMIA has launched a new security feature, based on optically variable elements, that combines colour personalisation and DOVID technologies to secure secondary portraits.

On 1 January 2002, the first series (ES1) of euro notes became a reality for some 300 million Europeans. The lower-value denominations contained a holographic stripe while the higher value notes carried a DOVID patch.