Chantilly, VA, January 14, 2010–Oberthur Technologies, the world’s second largest provider of smart card based solutions, has acquired the payment card personalization assets of Dyetron S.A., a provider of smart card-based technology solutions for the transportation, communications, government and financial sectors.

Executivo chega à empresa com a finalidade de alavancar novas oportunidades na área de Identificação e Gerenciamento de Acesso

A Sagem Orga, empresa do grupo francês SAFRAN e um dos maiores fabricantes de smart cards da América Latina, anuncia a chegada de Anderson Xavier como novo gerente de vendas para o mercado de IAM–Identity Access Management & ID.

Organizações realizarão um Webinar para discutir estes resultados

Cartes & Identification, Villepinte, France, November 17, 2009–A redução de fraudes em pagamentos financeiros é o principal motivo para os emissores e compradores adotarem EMV/chip no Brasil e no México, de acordo com nova pesquisa da Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA), realizada em conjunto com Visa Inc., à venda hoje. Outros resultados importantes: os entrevistados neste estudo também foram motivados a adotar cartões EMV/chip para se posicionarem como inovadores e líderes de tecnologia, e esperam conseguir uma migração para EMV/chip de 100% dos seus portfólios de cartões de crédito e de débito dentro de um a cinco anos.

Organizaciones realizarán Webinars (seminario vía web) para discutir hallazgos

Cartes & Identification, Villepinte, Francia, November 17, 2009–La reducción de fraude en pagos financieros es el principal impulsor para que los emisores y adquirientes adopten chips EMV en Brasil y México, según un nuevo estudio de Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA), producido en participación con Visa Inc., disponible para la venta hoy. Otros hallazgos importantes: los encuestados también están motivados a adoptar las tarjetas con chip EMV para posicionarse como innovadores y líderes de tecnología, pues todos esperan que el cien por cien de sus portafolios de tarjetas de crédito y débito migren a chip EMV dentro de uno a cinco años.

Organizations to host webinar to discuss findings

Cartes & IDentification, Villepinte, France, November 16, 2009–Reducing payments fraud is the top driver for issuers and acquirers to adopt EMV/chip in Brazil and Mexico, according to a new study from the Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA), produced in participation with Visa Inc., available for sale today. Other important findings: respondents are also driven to adopt EMV/chip cards in order to position themselves as innovators and technology leaders, and they all expect to have 100 percent of their credit and debit card portfolios migrated to EMV/chip within one to five years.

São Paulo, May 18, 2009 – Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, and Open Communications Security S/A, a Brazilian company specialized in information security, have entered into a partnership to collaborate on sales, consulting, implementation and support of Gemalto’s Protiva authentication solutions in Brazil and other countries in the Mercosur. The two companies target telecom operators, banks and corporate organizations.

Customers of Personal Argentina can now access Windows® Live Messenger from their SIM card regardless of their type of mobile phone

Buenos Aires, February 9, 2009 - Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces the successful implementation of Microsoft’s Instant Messenger service built into Gemalto’s SIM cards. The innovation will be available for the Argentinean marketplace through Personal’s new SIM cards in the coming weeks. With 12 million subscribers, Personal is known for its value added services innovation based on Personal’s Chip and this is one of the latest services added to the new SIM services portfolio.

Caracas, Venezuela, Jan 30, 2009–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, announced today that it is teaming up with two banking technology leaders to help banks in Venezuela move to a new, high-tech smart credit card that will better protect their customers from fraud and identity theft. Gemalto publicly declared an exclusive business alliance with Corporación Cardtech, Venezuela’s largest supplier of magnetic stripe bank cards, and Newtech Solutions, a consulting and technical support organization that specializes in EMV. EMV is the global standard for banking cards, supported by all of the major international credit cards brands.

OTI’s Magna™ Platform, Offers an End-to-End Turnkey National eID Solution

Fort Lee, NJ, January 26, 2009 – On Track Innovations Ltd, (OTI) (NASDAQ-GM: OTIV), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions for homeland security & eID Systems, payments, petroleum payments and other applications, announced today that it has signed a contract with the Registro Civil (Registry Office) of the Government of Ecuador to implement a limited scale pilot project for the country’s National eID system, which will serve as the first stage of the national eID system. The project includes issuance of new biometric-based electronic ID cards and other public certificates (birth, death, marriage, etc.) for the citizens of Ecuador. The value of this first stage project to OTI is estimated at $4 million, with deliveries scheduled for the first half of 2009.

Flexible MicroPass-Powered Bank Cards Ready for Brazilian Economy

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, December 11th, 2008–Strengthening its presence in the Brazilian contactless payments segment, INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, today announced it is expanding its relationship with American Banknote (ABnote) Brazil to produce Visa type approved contactless payment cards for this growing economy. INSIDE is supplying ABnote Brazil with its award-winning MicroPass® 4003, a contactless payment processor designed from the ground up for Visa payWave applications, and has worked closely with them to obtain type approval, implement in-house pre-personalization capabilities and ensure their products achieve optimal performance.