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Giesecke+Devrient (G+D), the global security technology group, is once again raising a promissory note loan, building on the success of its last issuance, which despite a challenging market environment, was very well received by investors.

The world’s population has now reached the landmark figure of eight billion people, according to the United Nations. However, one billion people still have no legal identity and are thus excluded from social participation and the opportunities of the modern world. With this having serious implications for those individuals, Veridos is committed to supporting the UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of giving all people a legal identity by 2030.

Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) has been named the winner of the Best Technology Award in the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's (HKMA) Global Fast Track CBDC 2022 competition. Through this initiative, Hong Kong's central bank honors innovative technology solutions for central bank digital currencies (CBDC).

The Central Bank of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) will partner with international technology group Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to research and explore the development of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) – an electronic form of money for the Kingdom of Eswatini. Both parties signed an agreement to this effect at last week’s annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Washington D.C..

Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) is proud to announce that the eCom Tokenizer solution has been recognized as a winner in the Fraud and Security Innovation: Payment Tokenization Solution category of the 2022 Juniper Future Digital Awards. The solution impressed the jury with its scalability and platform-agnostic approach.

Veridos, a world-leading provider of integrated identity solutions, announces the launch of it’s new VeriCHECK Selfkiosk and M600 document reader at this year’s Future Travel Experience (FTE) Global. The new solutions represent the next generation of products from Veridos’ verification portfolio with the aim to make travel more convenient and secure.

In response to sales losses due to counterfeiting and product and brand piracy equating to billions across all industries, Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) has developed a new authentication solution SIGN^®, for simple and rapid product authentication. Thanks to modern micro-optics technology, SIGN^® offers the highest level of security.

Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) enables banks to offer their customers personalized digital services in a phygital ecosystem. The supporting cloud environment including APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have now received the highest certification level for digital payment services.

Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) pledges to replace all virgin plastic in its payment card products by 2030 at the latest to further support consumers and banks to fulfil their own sustainability aspirations. Being the first in the payment industry to make such a commitment, G+D expects the industry to follow suit.

Giesecke+Devrient (G+D), a global security technology group, today announced the acquisition of the payment and identity solutions business of Valid USA. With this step, G+D aims to accelerate growth in the U.S., one of the world's largest payment and identity markets. G+D customers will benefit from the enlarged business size in the face of persistent industry-wide supply chain challenges.