History

Oberthur Fiduciaire’s history has been both rich and remarkable. Jean-Pierre Savare, a natural entrepreneur developed his business in different secure technological activities over the years before finally deciding in December 2011 to focus on its core business: security printing.

	Oberthur printing was founded by François-Charles Oberthur in Rennes
	Oberthur began printing banknotes when the Banque de France had difficulty obtaining supplies and turned to Oberthur for assistance
	Jean-Pierre Savare took over the security printing activity and named it François-Charles Oberthur
	Creation of FCO Lorraine, specialized in cheques
	Creation of FCO Card Systems
	Creation of François-Charles Oberthur Chèques et Sécurité
	Acquisition of Axytrans which became Oberthur Cash Protection
	Acquisition of BABN, specialized in scratch cards, which becomes Oberthur Gaming Technologies in 1999
	Creation of Oberthur Smart Cards
	Acquisition of De La Rue Card Systems and creation of Oberthur Card Systems
	Oberthur Card Systems IPO
	Consolidation of activities and creation of Oberthur Technologies Cession of Oberthur Gaming Technologies
	Acquisition of XPondCard, specialized in smart cards Delisting from stock exchange
	Cession of Oberthur Technologies (Card systems and Identity activities) All the security printing activities have been renamed: Oberthur Fiduciaire