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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-10352750236X

ISBN-139783527502363

eBay Product ID (ePID)13038734810

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Economic Conditions, Coins, Currency & Medals, Criminology, Social Science, Antiques & Collectibles, Business & Economics

AuthorKlaus W. Bender

IllustratorYes

Dimensions

Item Length9.3 In.

Item Height1.2 In.

Item Width6.5 In.

Item Weight23.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN2006-296654

Book TitleMoneymakers : The Secret World of Banknote Printing

Dewey Decimal676/.2826094

Intended AudienceTrade

SynopsisThis book is about the most precious piece of paper we know, about bank-notes. Modern life would be unthinkable without them. Yet, the general public is kept very much in the dark about how they are made or who makes them. It is rarely known, for example, that despite America's technical Prowess all dollar bills are printed exclusively on German high-security printing presses using secret Swiss special inks, or that the phony 100 dollar bills, the so-called supernotes may well be printed in a top-secret printing works located just north of the white House and run by the CIA - although the US government is blaming the rogue government of North Korea for counterfeiting these bills. This book is finally lifting the veil on an industry used to absolute secrecy. It recounts the stories of a British banknote printer who, fearing the loss of his customer, informed the Egyptian secret service that the securities printing machinery the Egyptians were about to buy was of Jewish origin; of a private printer who convinced the Polish central bank that it should destroy a complete series of new, perfect banknotes which had been printed by a competitor, or of an Argentinean high-security printer who came to print genuine fake bank-notes for Zaire and Bahrain as a result of two sting operations, which smell of the Belgian and French secret service. Moneymakers, by offering a detailed view of the banknote industry and its modus operandi, removes the industry's carefully imposed shroud of secrecy. This book has been researched over a five-year period in Europe, the USA, and Latin America. The book is based exclusively on personal Interviews and confidential mate4rial normally not accessible to outsiders. There were attempts to stop this research project. Klaus W. Bender has peered behind the scenes of the Secret and exclusive world of the moneymakers. - Financial Times Deutschland, 2004 The errors and pitfalls at the birth of the euro make Bender's research so unnerving. - Suddeutsche Zeitung, 2004 Bender does not mince his words when he describes abuses - and there are lots of them. - Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 2004, This book is about the most precious piece of paper we know, about bank-notes. Modern life would be unthinkable without them. Yet, the general public is kept very much in the dark about how they are made or who makes them. It is rarely known, for example, that despite Americas technical Prowess all dollar bills are printed exclusively on German high-security printing presses using secret Swiss special inks, or that the phony 100 dollar bills, the so-called supernotes may well be printed in a top-secret printing works located just north of the white House and run by the CIA - although the US government is blaming the rogue government of North Korea for counterfeiting these bills. This book is finally lifting the veil on an industry used to absolute secrecy. It recounts the stories of a British banknote printer who, fearing the loss of his customer, informed the Egyptian secret service that the securities printing machinery the Egyptians were about to buy was of Jewish origin; of a private printer who convinced the Polish central bank that it should destroy a complete series of new, perfect banknotes which had been printed by a competitor, or of an Argentinean high-security printer who came to print genuine fake bank-notes for Zaire and Bahrain as a result of two sting operations, which smell of the Belgian and French secret service. Moneymakers, by offering a detailed view of the banknote industry and its modus operandi, removes the industrys carefully imposed shroud of secrecy. This book has been researched over a five-year period in Europe, the USA, and Latin America. The book is based exclusively on personal Interviews and confidential mate4rial normally not accessible to outsiders. There were attempts to stop this research project. Klaus W. Bender has peered behind the scenes of the Secret and exclusive world of the moneymakers. - Financial Times Deutschland, 2004 The errors and pitfalls at the birth of the euro make Benders research so unnerving. - Suddeutsche Zeitung, 2004 Bender does not mince his words when he describes abuses - and there are lots of them. - Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 2004, Es gibt auf der Welt kein zweites Industrieprodukt, dass jeder Mensch so h ufig in der Hand h lt wie die Banknote. Aber es gibt auch kaum einen anderen Wirtschaftszweig, der sich derart hermetisch gegen die Blicke der -ffentlichkeit abschirmt, von Geheimnissen umgeben ist, wie der Druck der Banknoten. Die Herstellung des Sicherheitspapiers und der Banknotendruck bilden den Kern dieser Hochsicherheitsbranche. Unter den Begriff Sicherheitsdruck f llt noch sehr viel mehr: Schecks, Wertpapiere, P sse, Personalausweise, Lotterielose, Eintrittskarten f 1/4r Gro Yveranstaltungen, Flugtickets - und seit einigen Jahren sogar die mit Magnetstreifen oder Chip ausger 1/4steten Plastikkarten f 1/4r Zugangskontrollen sowie die Karten der Krankenversicherungen. Alles an dieser Branche ist streng vertraulich. Die hier verwendeten Druckmaschinen und das Papier d 1/4rfen nirgends sonst eingesetzt werden. Neben dem sachlich gebotenen Sicherheitsbed 1/4rfnis gibt es noch einen weiteren Grund f 1/4r die Geheimniskr merei der Branche: Die Hersteller, staatliche wie private, m chten sich nicht in die Karten schauen lassen. Genau dies aber hat Klaus Bender getan. In seinem spannenden Buch weiht er seine Leser in einige Geheimnisse der Zunft ein. Denn die -ffentlichkeit hat ein Recht auf eine gewisse Transparenz: Schlie Ylich geht es in diesem Gewerbe immer auch um die Verwendung von Steuergeldern.

Publication Year2006

FormatHardcover

Dewey Edition22

Table Of ContentPreface Money Magic 1 From "obelos" to "e-cash" 2 Why the market for banknote printing is special Moneymakers I 3 How Signor Giori was able to carve out a worldwide monopoly with his printing presses 4 Why Monsieur Amon had the same success with printing ink Moneymakers II 5 What caused De La Rue's imperial aura to fade 6 How Giesecke & Devrient struggles for technological leadership 7 Where hard work and politics helped Francois Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire 8 What brought Bundesdruckerei to the brink of ruin 9 How Ciccone Calcográfica wasted its fiduciary capital 10 Why the euro became a bonanza for moneymakers 11 Why there is a problem with the euro's security 12 Quo vadis euro printing?

LC Classification NumberHG927.B46 2006

Number of Pages308 pages