Germany

Personalized credit cards for SEB’s customers

Now customers of SEB Germany can use Gemalto’s CardLikeMe^TM to create a unique personal credit card. After uploading their picture on the bank’s website, users can visualize the card in real time and adjust the photo to taste. SEB is a North European financial group with some 1,000,000 clients in Germany. “Simplicity and convenience were key when offering our customers the option to design their own credit card,” commented Marc Vormann, of SEB. “Gemalto proposed an easy-to-use end to- end solution.”
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  India

Accelerating microbanking

Underbanked people in India are benefiting from simplified access to financial services through the use of our specially developed smart cards.

Each card holds up to 15 different types of secure application such as deposits, savings, loans, insurance and e-purses.

The card also acts as an electronic statement to store the last 150 transactions, which are validated using biometric authentication.This one-card-does-all solution resolves the normal barriers to growth by providing users with convenient and secure banking services.

Up to 500 million people are currently underserved by the financial sector and this initiative aims at the development of poorer areas.

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  South Africa

Achieving bank card accreditation

American Express, MasterCard and Visa have recognized the reliability of our banking solutions by making Gemalto the first company in South Africa to receive all three certifications for our new personalization facility there.
We already supply banking cards in many African countries and this local capability is enabling us to address the emerging EMV market. Since it allows us to operate closer to our bank customers, we are able to serve them with increased responsiveness.

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