Brazil
 Student
payments made easy
Banco Santander Brasil, one of the world’s largest financial
institutions, turned to Gemalto when it needed to deploy Brazil’s
first contactless EMV payment system. The system has been introduced
to provide students at Santander Universities with payment and
digital ID cards for carrying out transactions, accessing campus
facilities and using public transportation. EMV cards will be
distributed among students during 2012, a year when demand for
advanced payment systems and NFC is expected to gather pace in
Brazil.
“The card offers unmatched technology in our market and gives us a
leading edge that adds great value to our brand, positioning and
activities,” said Jamil Hannouche, Director of Santander
Universities in Brazil. “We want to strengthen our ties with
universities offering state-of-the-art technology, which improves
the operation of the institutions.”
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Sweden
Access all areas
The
leading banking group in Sweden and the Baltics turned to Gemalto
when it needed to unify its diverse IT security systems. Swedbank,
which has 10 million private customers and 700,000 corporate
clients, picked the
Protiva converged badge solution to provide
secure access to data networks and physical access for its 20,000-strong
international workforce, whether on site or remotely. It was the
first ‘crosssea’ project for Swedbank, which acquired Finnish
banking group Hansabank in 2005.
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 Singapore
25%
 The
percentage of Singaporean students who have experienced cyber-bullying,
according to a 2008 survey by the country’s National Crime
Prevention Council (NCPC). Statistics like this are what led the
NCPC, in partnership with Gemalto, to launch
Cyberonia, an online
game that teaches 11-year-olds how to stay safe on the internet.
Singapore is one of the most connected places in the world: 96% of
its children between the ages of seven and 14 go online at least
once a year.
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Special focus
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 Spain
Milestone: Four Million Students Now Use University Smart
Cards
 Four
Million Students; the number of students now using the university smart card (USC)
that Gemalto developed for the Santander Universities Global
Division of Banco Santander. The card acts as an identity credential
in 200 universities and enables several value-added services,
including
EMV payment,
secure contactless
access to facilities and
digital signature.
The bank currently runs its USC program in Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain and Uruguay.
It is also giving universities the option to install
Gemalto’s
Dexxis Instant Issuance personalization solution to enable on-site
card delivery.
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USA
Securing the cloud
 Users
of one of the leading cloud computing services, Amazon Web
Services (AWS), can now protect their accounts with a new
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) feature from Gemalto. The
Ezio Time
Token is a small, lightweight, long-lasting device that produces
a unique six-digit one-time password (OTP); the user simply presses
a button on the device and the OTP is displayed. The MFA feature
allows users to combine something they know (their email address and
password) with something they have (the Ezio device) in order to
ensure that only authorized people are accessing their AWS account.
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USA
Gemalto
joins SAFEBioPharma Association
 Gemalto is joining leaders in the biopharmaceutical and healthcare
industries to help them achieve their goal of a fully electronic
business environment by 2012. Gemalto is the first smart card
provider to become a vendor partner of SAFEBioPharma Association - a nonprofit association that manages a digital identity and signature
standard for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries - and will
contribute its expertise in smart card-based solutions for
authentication, network security and digital signature.
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 Serbia
In
a class of their own
Gemalto is providing the
first
multi-application electronic student cards for secure
identification and payment in Serbia. Contactless functionality
enables students to enter buildings and to record their attendance
in class simply by holding the card up to a reader. They can also
use it for debit payment through the secure contact microprocessor.
Bearers of the card can pay at student restaurants and hostels, and
they also receive discounts at local establishments..
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