Category: EMV News

“Global presence, local service” approach results in strong performance for leading provider of smart card solutions

Luxembourg, July 12, 2004–Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294–GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world’s leading provider of smart card solutions, today announces nine new customer wins in emerging smart banking markets in Asia Pacific, South America, and Europe. This growth is testimony to Gemplus’ improved market performance in a five year EMV drive, which has seen…

MBF Cards, Malaysia To Purchase 10,000 Smart, Fast, Easy-Use Hypercom T7Plus Card Payment Terminals

Largest Single Order in Malaysia Sets New Record–Malaysia’s Largest MasterCard Merchant Acquirer Chooses Hypercom Terminal Technology Global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) today announced another major win for its highly popular EMV-certified T7Plus card payment terminal and operating software as MBF Cards, the largest MasterCard merchant acquirer in Malaysia, agreed to purchase 10,000…

Gemplus Delivers World’s First New Generation of MasterCard Payment Smart Cards

Gemplus Continues to Drive EMV Migration Around the Globe, Delivering the World’s First EMV Smart Cards Compliant With MasterCard M/Chip™4 Standard to One of the Leading Retail Banks in Russia LUXEMBURG, and MOSCOW, May 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294–GEM and Nasdaq: GEMP), the world’s leading provider of smart card solutions, announces that the company…

Visa Launches Visa Wave For Contactless Card Payments

World’s First Implementation with MBF Cards and Merchants in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/–Visa Asia Pacific today announced Visa Wave, the first-ever Visa contactless smart card that is fully compatible with global EMV smart card standard. With Visa Wave, no signature is required and there is no need to hand the card to the…

Gemplus Deploys First French EMV Banking Cards

World Looks at French Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294–GEM; NASDAQ:GEMP), the world’s leading provider of smart card solutions, today announced that it had become the first company to begin personalisation of EMV1 payment cards for the French financial market with the production of EMV-compliant payment cards for Societe Generale, one of the largest financial services…