HSP Asia 2025 Reaches New Heights

High Security Printing™ Asia (HSP Asia), held in Kuala Lumpur from 1-3 December 2025, delivered the strongest performance in the event’s history. The conference attracted 337 delegates from 145 organisations across 51 countries, including 34 governments and central banks.

The conference was held in Malaysia for the third time (following successful editions in 2006 and 2010), and reaffirmed HSP Asia as the region’s most trusted platform for innovation, insight, and partnership across currency, identity, and secure documentation.

Engaging programme with key openings 

The programme opened with a workshop from De La Rue for central banks entitled ‘Currency – The Banknote Balancing Act: Making Informed Currency Choices’, and another on cash sustainability, hosted by Reconnaissance and the International Currency Association, that explored practical steps to reduce the environmental impact of cash and the wider cash cycle.

The main conference opened with a welcome address from Abd Rahman Abu Bakar, Assistant Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, who explained that while e-payments may have increased at a compound annual growth rate of 17% between 2004 and 2024, there is still RM 171 billion of banknotes in circulation and that in 2024 the growth rate was 5.5%.