Turkey

Advanced contactless EMV cards

Garanti Bank in Turkey chose Gemalto to supply our most advanced credit cards combined with our instant issuance solution. Holders can use the cards to make EMV and contactless payment, accumulate points through the bank’s loyalty scheme and pay for travel with the eTicketing application.

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Canada

Your photo on your MasterCard
Canadian consumers can put their own photo on their prepaid MasterCard

Gemalto is providing its CardLikeMe service to Canadian company PlasticNow, giving consumers the ability to customize their PlasticNow prepaid MasterCard with a personalized photo of their choice. Allynis CardLikeMe is completely webbased; cardholders can simply connect to the PlasticNow website, upload an image from their computer and order their card instantly online.

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France

Contactless Mobile Payment: Major French Banks Use Gemalto's Secure Services

Five banks - BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole-LCL, Crédit Mutuel-CIC, Caisse d’Epargne and La Banque Postale Groups - are now using Gemalto’s Allynis service as part of the "Payez Mobile" trial for contactless mobile payment. The trial, which includes four mobile operators as well as the French banks, started in November 2007 with 1,000 consumers and 200 merchants in Caen and Strasbourg. The recent renewal of Gemalto’s service contract confirms recognition of its role as a trusted third party among the players in the mobile NFC ecosystem.

• More information on Gemalto's NFC offer
• Read the press release
• Payez Mobile web site
• Read Pegasus sucess story

 United Kingdom

Over one million Barclays Bank customers now use its PINsentry™ smart card reader, which offers stronger authentication for online banking. Since the deployment of Gemalto’s solution not one PINsentry customer has suffered fraud. User feedback has proven extremely positive with customer acceptance 30% higher than anticipated.
With PINsentry, Barclays customers generate One-Time-Passwords to authenticate themselves at log in, and also use it to sign transactions, by inserting their usual chip-enabled bank card into the reader and typing in their card PIN code. This provides a much higher level of security than authentication using static credentials.

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