Giesecke & Devrient - News, Articles & Research

Company announcement/security

Germany works on transition to quantum-secure ID cards

Since its introduction in 2010, Germany’s national ID card – with its integrated online identification feature – has been recognized as one of the world’s most secure government-issued documents.

11 November 2025

Company announcement/crypto

ECB enlists G+D for digital euro resilience

Advancing the preparation of a digital euro, the European Central Bank (ECB) has announced the conclusion of the framework agreements for each of the five digital euro negotiated procurement procedures (also see the notice view in the Official Journal of the EU).

06 October 2025

Company announcement/crypto

G+D and GFT join Commercial Bank Money Token initiative

(G+D), and GFT Technologies (GFT) are joining the CBMT initiative as Technical Service Providers (TSP), driving commercial bank money designed to facilitate direct and secure transactions between businesses using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).

19 August 2025

News/devops

CBDC pilot projects seeing adoption in Ghana and Thailand – Giesecke + Devrient

Raoul Herborg, managing director, central bank digital currency (CBDC) solutions at Giesecke and Devrient (G+D) spoke to Finextra on their release of a recent survey on CBDC progress worldwide, and what we can expect from CBDCs in the coming years.

04 July 2025

News/payments

Australian Payments Plus to bring least-cost routing to online Cick to Pay transactions

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) has selected Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to develop eftpos Click to Pay with integrated least-cost routing (LCR), a project that is billed as a world first for online debit card payments.

10 June 2025

News/crypto

Third of central banks delay CBDC timelines

With Donald Trump banning work on a digital dollar, a central bank survey suggests that while 75% still plan to issue a CDC, nearly a third have pushed back their issuance timeline.

13 February 2025

News/inclusion

Ghana pilots blockchain-based credentials and CBDC for global trade

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has completed a proof-of-concept into the use of digital credentials for international trade and CBDC-based cross-border payments.

31 July 2024

News/payments

G+D unveils offline payments tech

Germany's Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) has unveiled a token-based system for secure offline payments.

04 July 2024

Company announcement/payments

G+D launches modular platform for card issiance

The modern payment card issuance platform Convego Service Market bundles G+D’s Convego services to simplify their use for banks and financial service providers, making it easier to access and operate intelligent solutions for a phygital customer experience that perfectly combines physical and digital offerings.

03 June 2024

Company announcement/payments

Conclusion report from Bank of Thailand envisages innovation potential of a retail CBDC

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) recently released the report of its Retail Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot project which it conducted on Giesecke+Devrient´'s (G+D) technology solution.

09 May 2024

News/payments

Mauritania commissions G+D to design CBDC

The Central Bank of Mauritania has commissioned Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to design a digital form of the national currency Ouguiya as a complement to cash.

23 April 2024

News/retail

MPE 2024: Tokenisation in the ecommerce space

In a panel discussing tokenisation, panellists Suzana Kordumova, product manager at Netcetera, Stephan Hackenberg solution sales director at Giesecke+Devrient, Matteo Gamba, head of product - global payments and fraud at Wayfair, and John Noltensmeyer CISO at Tokenex spoke on network tokenisation and what tokenisation can do for merchant payments.

14 March 2024