Contactless prepaid card solution for South African public transit fares demonstration at Cartes

At the heart of South Africa’s new contactless, prepaid smart card system for public transit fares, Aconite Prepaid Value Manager manages complex processing specific to smart prepaid products. Integrated with Traderoot Africa (Pty) Ltd’s Universal Prepaid Issuing Platform (UPIP) software, this software solution is licensed to a large South African transit payments processor and approved… Read More

Oberthur Technologies launches a Paper SIM Card

Oberthur Technologies, the world’s second largest provider of security and identification solutions and services based on smart card technologies, has launched the PaperSIM, a premium sustainable plant-based SIM card body made from 100% paper. The PaperSIM is a natural high-tech card body composed of recyclable and biodegradable wood fibres designed to respect the eco-system. With… Read More

All you need to know about Match-on-Card – New website!

Match-on-Card makes a smart card truly personal; it is the concept of storing and matching fingerprints on a smart card. It’s a technology on the rise with millions of users worldwide. Now, all you need to know about Match-on-Card is available at http://www.matchoncard.com. At http://www.matchoncard.com you can try Match-on-Card, find whitepapers, read about relevant standards,… Read More

2010 turns out to be an award winning year for Oberthur Technologies

Oberthur Technologies, one of the world’s largest providers of smart cards technology and related services, has received several prestigious awards for its innovation in the first part of 2010. In June, Oberthur received two International Innovation Awards from ACT Canada, a non-profit association that focuses on smart card technology in Canada. The International Innovation Awards… Read More