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.

Anhanguera University students will be first to use the new multi-functional cards for secure payment, access to campus buildings, and more

Amsterdam and São Paulo, December 11, 2008–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced it is providing Banco Santander with innovative technology for its university identity card program. It is Brazil’s first multi-functional smart card combining EMV (Europay, Mastercard and Visa) payment and contactless access control on a single ID card, to be used within the university buildings–for students, teachers and staff. Gemalto delivers the cards to the universities and personalizes each card with the cardholder’s unique data at its personalization center in Barueri, São Paulo.

LEGIC is extending its partner network in Spain with ELECTRÓNICA MEYSH. End-users will, as a result, get further security and flexibility through a broader range of advanced security systems using LEGIC technology.

Zurich, November 2008–LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, the leading manufacturer of contactless smart card technology for personal identification, has signed a licence partnership with ELECTRÓNICA MEYSH, leading provider of integrated security systems in Spain. The agreement will result in the development of innovative and integrated security systems, using LEGIC contactless smart card technology. With MEYSH distribution network in Spain, LEGIC strengthen its position on the Iberian peninsula.

This worldwide innovation will first be launched in Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, Oct 27, 2008–Oi, the first quadri-play operator in Brazil, today announces that it will launch, in the first week of November, Windows Live Messenger services built into Oi’s SIM card, in partnership with Microsoft and Gemalto. This worldwide innovation means that users who buy a new Oi SIM card will have direct access to Messenger functionalities in any Oi mobile phone. The new features will first be available for customers in all States where Oi operates.

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 13th, 2008–Strengthening its presence in the Brazilian contactless payments market, INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced contactless microprocessor platforms, today announced it has teamed with American Banknote (ABnote) Brazil to produce a MasterCard type-approved contactless payment card for this growing market. INSIDE is supplying ABnote Brazil with its award-winning MicroPass® 4003, a contactless payment processor designed from the ground up for MasterCard® PayPass™ applications, and has worked closely with them to obtain type approval, implement in-house pre-personalization capabilities and ensure their products achieve optimal performance.

American Banknote Brazil is the largest secure printing and transaction service provider in Brazil, producing hundreds of millions of cards each year, and is the unrivalled local leader in bank cards as well as virtually every other product and service category the company offers. American Banknote Brazil’s customers includes Banco Bradesco, Banco Itaú, Unibanco and Banco do Brasil–as well as Caixa Economica Federal, one of the largest government-owned financial institutions in Latin America

Libercard lets Brazilians ride transit and make contactless payments, top-ups at retailers using a single prepaid contactless card

Fortaleza, Brazil, October 7th, 2008–Libercard, ViVOtech and Inteligensa today announced that they have collaborated to develop the first Transit & Retail combination contactless payment implementation in Latin America. With the new technology, Brazilians in the city of Fortaleza use a single contactless payment card to ride local transit and make retail purchases. Libercard has enabled tens of thousands of transit riders with dual-purpose prepaid contactless cards to ride transit, pay for purchases and perform top-ups at several hundred retail stores in Fortaleza that use ViVOtech contactless payment devices implemented with Inteligensa integration expertise.

Gemalto’s 3G technology enables Brasil Telecom mobile users to experience new, secure and faster wireless data services

São Paulo, June 5, 2008–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces its selection by Brasil Telecom to provide USIM cards for the launch of its 3G network this month. The USIM technology, advanced software adapted for 3G networks and loaded in SIM cards, will allow Brasil Telecom’s users to access unique value added services and benefit from higher levels of security on electronic transactions performed with their mobiles.

PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., May 19, 2008–Rapidly rising fraud rates due to skimming of magnetic stripe credit cards and shifts in fraud liability are fueling the migration of Latin American banks to smart bankcards based on the global EMV standard, attendees learned at the joint Smart Card Alliance annual meeting and CTST conference last week.

NEW YORK, April 16, 2008–The rapidly expanding Latin American smart card market will be given extra focus including a special daylong mini-track Wednesday, May 14th during CTST 2008–The Americas Conference. CTST 2008, the largest payment, security and identification conference in the Americas, will be held May 12th through 15th at the Orange County Convention Center West, in Orlando, Fla.

December 20, 2007–XIRING has announced a partnership with E-Safetransfer and a first delivery of 15,000 Teo by XIRING readers for the Brazilian administration.

E-Safetransfer has received a purchase order for 15,000 Teo by XIRING readers from the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, through its department of Internal Revenue (R.F.B Receita Federal do Brazil), which are to be delivered immediately. This first contract with the Brazilian Government aims to equip the Department’s employees with smart card readers in line with the PKI smart card infrastructure in Brazil.