Category: EMV News

INSIDE And SAETIC Partner to Bring Contactless EMV to Spain

New Card and Sticker Products to Incorporate Next-Generation MicroPass Technology AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, September 2nd, 2008–INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, today firmly established its presence in the Spanish contactless EMV market through a partnership with SAETIC, one of Spain’s leading manufacturers of plastic payment cards for the banking and public transportation…

INSIDE Contactless continues expansion in Canadian Smart Card Market

EMV Migration Driving Demand for INSIDE’s MicroPass Contactless Payment Platform AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, May 21, 2008–In a move to meet the growing demand for smart cards in Canada, INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, today strengthened its position in the market and announced that it has joined Advanced Card Technologies (ACT) Canada….

Collis CPV Test Tool qualified by MasterCard

Leiden (NL) 6 May, 2008–Collis announces today that MasterCard has qualified Collis’ new MasterCard Card Personalisation Validation (CPV) module within the Collis EMV Personalisation Validation Tool (Collis EMV PVT). Professional testing of personalized MasterCard EMV/PayPass™ cards is essential to ensure worldwide accept- ance of cards. Collis’ newly developed module checks if MasterCard cards are correctly…

VeriFone Introduces Vx 810 DUET with Innovative Dual-User Design for Merchant and Customer Use

PCI PED and EMV-Approved System Combines Clerk and Customer-Facing Capabilities in a Sleek, Cost Effective, Feature-Rich Design LAS VEGAS (ETA Booth #519), April 15–VeriFone Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PAY) today announced the Vx 810 DUET, a 2-in-1 payment system that incorporates a sleek and secure consumer-activated, hand-held device tethered to a clerk-facing base unit. The Vx…

New President appointed to Giesecke & Devrient Canada

Toronto, April 10, 2008–Canada is entering a new era in payment technology with the migration to EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) standard chip-enabled payment, a proven technology in use in many countries around the world. In order to successfully implement this migration, the Management Board of Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has appointed Mr. Erwin Diekemper…

Bell ID Signs New Banking Customer in Canada

Rotterdam–26th March 2008–Bell ID, worldwide technology leader in the field of smart card management solutions, today announced that it will be providing a full EMV solution for managing over two million cards, to a major Canadian financial institution. Bell ID will implement and support its ANDiS4EMV smart card management solution, enabling the bank to migrate…

JCB Collaborates with CASSIS International in an Experiment to Test OTA Services for NFC Mobile Payment

Tokyo and Singapore, February 21, 2008–JCB and CASSIS International (CASSIS) announced today an agreement to collaborate in an experiment to test NFC over-the-air (OTA) services. JCB and CASSIS International will jointly demonstrate end-to-end secure contactless payment issuance services for NFC mobile phones. The demonstration will begin this April with the following services to ensure secure…

Gemalto’s Personalization Center in Poland Achieves MasterCard® and Visa Accreditations

Gemalto aims to serve the growing market in Poland, with the number of credit cards forecast to more than double from 4.1 million in 2006 to 11 million in 2010, an average annual growth rate exceeding 40%* Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Jan 18, 2008–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces successful…

Gemalto Achieves Latest SECCOS Certification for its Banking Cards in Germany

Ready now for mass deployment, Desineo Seccos 6.1 allows German banks to offer the EMV Common Payment Application to their customers and ease SEPA deployment in Germany Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Jan 10, 2008 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces its Desineo banking card has been certified by the…

Bell ID and Collis forge strategic technology partnership

Bell ID, worldwide market leader of smart card management solutions, and Collis, EMV consultants and market leader for state-of-the-art testing tools today signed a global strategic partnership agreement. Rotterdam, 6th November 2007–The partnership will integrate Bell ID’s ANDiS smart Card and Application Management System (CAMS) with the Collis Card Image Editor (Collis CIE) and the…