Moneymakers
The Secret World of Banknote Printing
(Sprache: Englisch)
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This book is about the most precious "piece of paper" we know, about banknotes. 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 Argentinian high-security printer who came to print "genuine fake" banknotes 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 material 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."
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Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2004"Bender does not mince his words when he describes abuses - and there are lots of them." Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2004
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Moneymakers “
The introductory chapter offers an outline of the history of money with the emphasis on paper money.The first topic group ("Moneymakers I", 3 chapters) initially explains the peculiarities of the banknote business (Chapter 2) as a market limited to selected members and muted competition.
It is the story (Chapter 3) of Gualtiero Giori, a machinery engineer, and his "System Giori". A couple of hitherto unpublished episodes show how Giori, with the help of the German machinery constructing firm of Koenig & Bauer, convinced central banks to building expensive printing works which were not always needed.
Next comes the story (Chapter 4.) of Albert Amon, GioriŽs close friend and producer of special inks for banknote printing. Amon's company, Sicpa, enjoys a de facto monopoly of the world market for these exclusive inks and can ask almost any price.
The second topic group ("Moneymakers II", comprising 3 chapters) describes the varied fate of today's three leading private banknote printers - from Britain, France and Germany.
The private British banknote printer and papermaker De La Rue plc. (Chapter 5) ruled the world market for banknotes. However a sequence of management mistakes committed by rapidly changing CEOŽs has reduced this once proud company to a shadow of its former self. Not even efforts to strike secret deals with markets and/or prices could avert that fate.
Quite different is the story (Chapter 6) of the private German banknote printer Giesecke & Devrient. The latter was almost completely destroyed during WW II; but under its charismatic and aggressive owner, Siegfried Otto, it became the only full vertically integrated, high security company in the world, covering everything from paper to printing, to banknote inspection systems and shredders for used banknotes.
Market entry into the profitable banknote business may be difficult, yet Chapter 7 shows that it can be done with entrepreneurial courage - plus some help from important
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political friends. Thus private French printer Francois Charles Overthur Fiduciaire succeeded even though he was a latecomer.
The third topic ("Money Destroyers", comprising 2 chapters) deals with the "losers". Even in a highly lucrative business, unreasonable profit expectations and lack of judgment can lead to doom and failure.
Chapter 8 exposes the developments around the privatization of the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin where complete lack of strategy, in combination with greed, led to the loss of thousands of jobs and near ruin.
Likewise (Chapter 9) the owner of Ciccone Calcogràfica, a printing plant in Argentina, dreamt of banknote printing as a source of high and continuous profits. The firm's highly leveraged expansion into high security printing drove it into the arms of a gang of international Mafiosi on whose orders they printed "genuine fake banknotes" for Zaire and Bahrain.
The fourth and final topic ("Money Worries", 3 chapters) uses the concrete example of the euro and describes not only the politically, but also technically painful paths toward a true common currency.
The story is told (Chapter 10) of how the involvement of too many paper suppliers and printing works - public as well as private - pushed up the production costs at the same time as lowering the quality of the new euro-notes.
Chapter 11 deals with the fact that for the first time in modern history there are two block-currencies available for trading and for hoarding purposes, the dollar and the euro. Both today are massively threatened by an ultra-modern reproduction technology, and both have a rather different approach to the question of banknote security.
Lastly in Chapter 12, the introduction of the Common European Currency was supposed to strengthen competition and market forces in general. Unfortunately the euro in one particular instance, that is in banknote printing, opens the back door to disintegration of private industry and even to its nationalization.
The third topic ("Money Destroyers", comprising 2 chapters) deals with the "losers". Even in a highly lucrative business, unreasonable profit expectations and lack of judgment can lead to doom and failure.
Chapter 8 exposes the developments around the privatization of the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin where complete lack of strategy, in combination with greed, led to the loss of thousands of jobs and near ruin.
Likewise (Chapter 9) the owner of Ciccone Calcogràfica, a printing plant in Argentina, dreamt of banknote printing as a source of high and continuous profits. The firm's highly leveraged expansion into high security printing drove it into the arms of a gang of international Mafiosi on whose orders they printed "genuine fake banknotes" for Zaire and Bahrain.
The fourth and final topic ("Money Worries", 3 chapters) uses the concrete example of the euro and describes not only the politically, but also technically painful paths toward a true common currency.
The story is told (Chapter 10) of how the involvement of too many paper suppliers and printing works - public as well as private - pushed up the production costs at the same time as lowering the quality of the new euro-notes.
Chapter 11 deals with the fact that for the first time in modern history there are two block-currencies available for trading and for hoarding purposes, the dollar and the euro. Both today are massively threatened by an ultra-modern reproduction technology, and both have a rather different approach to the question of banknote security.
Lastly in Chapter 12, the introduction of the Common European Currency was supposed to strengthen competition and market forces in general. Unfortunately the euro in one particular instance, that is in banknote printing, opens the back door to disintegration of private industry and even to its nationalization.
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Autoren-Porträt von Klaus W. Bender
Klaus W. Bender is an economist and journalist with 30 years experience as a foreign correspondent for the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ), Germany's leading daily paper. From an office in Tokyo, he has covered East Asia; from Rome, the Mediterranean basin; from Vienna, the Eastern European countries in transition. Further, in the run-up to the birth of the euro, since the 1990´s he has been investigating the situation of the banknote industry and its problems. As a result, in the year 2000 he discovered and broke the story of the misprinting of more than 300 million 100-euro bills by the officially appointed printer in Germany. The story went around the world. Additionally, he was the first journalist to report on the unfolding economic difficulties of the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin, the then highly respected state printing plant of the DM bills, as it was about to be privatized.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Klaus W. Bender
- 2006, 1. Auflage, 316 Seiten, Masse: 16,4 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley-VCH
- ISBN-10: 352750236X
- ISBN-13: 9783527502363
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.03.2006
Sprache:
Englisch
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