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Bell ID & CIM Partner to Offer End-to-End EMV Smart Card Issuance Offering

CIM, a leading-edge card personalization machines manufacturer and Bell ID, a leading smart token management solution provider, today announced a global partnership to realize extensive end-to-end solutions for the in-branch and mass personalization of EMV smart cards.

CIM provides versatile central as well as in-branch issuance desktop machines, designed to work 24/7 and have an all-in-one combination of personalization technologies including thermal printing, embossing, front and rear indent, contact and contactless chip encoding; all in a single pass through the machine. All machines can be interconnected to meet any production process configuration by the operator, providing flexible redundancy and ease of use. Bell ID’s EMV Token Manager software realizes a secure connection between hardware provided by CIM and the centralized, back-offices card applications. The joint-offering provides financial institutions with robust and proven central and in-branch issuance capabilities for all major card schemes, for both contact as well as contactless smart cards.

The combination of both software and hardware packages with the extensive partner network of both companies, also guarantee rapid localized implementations and excellent local support services.

Alberto Mucelli, President & CEO at CIM, commented: “This exciting partnership between CIM and Bell ID is a great opportunity to benefit of the respective skills, experiences, products and services to propose value-added solutions to  international customers. We thank Bell ID for this cooperation and are looking forward to working together on many successful joint projects.”

David Orme, CEO at Bell ID, added: “This partnership adds a new perspective on our in-branch issuance offering and provides new opportunities to meet the growing demand of our customers for in-branch and mass personalization. We are delighted to be cooperating with such an innovative organization and look forward to a fruitful partnership with CIM in the years to come.”

Bell ID’s IT platform and database is vendor and technology neutral allowing it to develop the most appropriate partnerships for customer requirements. This is just one example of its outreach activities which enables it to deliver bespoke and cost-effective solutions.

 

About CIM

CIM is the MF Group S.p.A. complete line of products related to Plastic Card Personalization Equipment. Since 1985 CIM has designed and manufactured a complete range of equipment suitable for instant card issuance and centralized card issuance. The company is present in most of the worldwide countries through and international dealer network.

Bell ID Simplifies EMV Smart Card & NFC Application Management with Versatile New Platform

Bell ID today announced the launch of Bell ID® EMV Token Manager, a new web based solution which coordinates and simplifies the management of any type or combination of EMV token deployment, including contact, contactless and dual interface cards as well as the option to support contactless applications in NFC enabled mobile phones.

The newly announced solution is a comprehensively redesigned successor to Bell ID’s acclaimed ANDiS4EMV smart card management system and draws on the company’s experience with banks and other chip & PIN card issuers worldwide.

Positioned at the core of an EMV implementation, Bell ID® EMV Token Manager is responsible for performing data preparation for any EMV or chip payment application and for managing the entire lifecycles of an EMV token, its associated applications and related cryptographic keys. It enables issuers of payment applications to simply and quickly migrate to EMV and to enhance the functionality of their existing EMV deployments.

Significantly, Bell ID® EMV Token Manager’s design directly incorporates feedback from a series of customer consultation workshops, ensuring that it reflects actual industry and customer requirements relative to EMV token management.

As a result, an improved and highly intuitive online user interface simplifies both operations management and configuration, cutting deployment timescales and offering substantial reduction in program costs.

Optional enhancements such as EMV instant issuance, EMV scripting, internet PIN change, multi-application management, post-issuance management functionality and NFC mobile application management reinforce the value and versatility of the system, and the ability to contribute to the growth and profitability of issuers’ chip programs.

Bell ID® EMV Token Manager is compliant to relevant standards such as EMV, PCI and GlobalPlatform, enabling customers to implement fully certified end-to-end solutions. The platform has also been re-engineered based on the latest technology standards, and offers complete IT platform and database independence.

David Worthington, Principal Consultant Payment & Chip Technology at Bell ID, comments: “Bell ID EMV Token Manager offers EMV issuers the flexibility, scalability and modularity to manage EMV tokens even more easily and cost effectively than before.  The solution’s ’customization through configuration‘ approach ensures that it can be adapted to suit potentially unplanned future business requirements, such as managing multiple token types – perhaps payment applications on both cards and mobile phones – side by side. This level of future-proofing is essential in the increasingly dynamic payments market where new and emerging technologies continue to drive change at a very fast pace.”

Bell ID Teams up With ViVOtech and PPC to Realize Mass Market Rollout of NFC Payments

Anticipating the rapid adoption of mobile payment technologies expected next year, three payment technology powerhouses; Bell ID, ViVOtech, and PPC Card Systems, have teamed up to launch a collaborative program to enable the mass market rollout of Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile solutions in Europe.

Bell ID, the leader in token and application lifecycle management and ViVOtech, the leader in NFC, mobile payments, loyalty and marketing applications and contactless NFC readers have joined forces with PPC Card Systems (PPC), a well-established and respected EMV-certified card personalization bureau, to enable hosted and certified provisioning and management services for EMV credit and debit cards, merchant prepaid, gift and loyalty cards, tickets and transit cards applications to NFC mobile handsets.

Through this collaboration, mobile network operators, banks and service providers can deliver mobile application provisioning and/or Trusted Service Manager (TSM) services for payments, ticketing and marketing applications to their client base.

“We are confident that combining the strength of Bell ID’s and ViVOtech’s software solutions with PPC will allow us to provide an unsurpassed offering to· institutions that wish to look beyond pilots to mass rollout,”· said Michael Mullagh, CEO of ViVOtech.

The joint solution leverages Bell ID’s market-proven, high-volume token and application lifecycle and key management systems alongside ViVOtech’s award-winning mobile wallet software, patented over-the-air (OTA) provisioning solution and coupon issuance/redemption software with the certified and secure operations environment managed by PPC to provide a feature-rich, complete NFC/TSM offering.

“The collaboration between PPC, ViVOtech and Bell ID means we can provide banks, mobile operators and consortia from both of these sectors with a broader set of solution delivery options, further encouraging mass market adoption of NFC based mobile contactless applications,” said David Orme, CEO of Bell ID.

Bell ID’s software is ideal for organizations that wish to issue and manage companion cards, alongside their mobile offerings. Through ViVOtech’s offerings, the solution provides value-added service options allowing consumers to download merchants’ loyalty, gift, transit and prepaid cards and customize these cards to automatically redeem loyalty points and take advantage of discounts.

PPC, a member of the AEM Technologies Group (Switzerland), personalizes and distributes smart cards for many European financial organizations and brings significant operational expertise to the partnership.

“With the combined expertise of Bell ID and ViVOtech, we can now offer several new best-of-breed services to our customers that need secure personalization services, mobile payment, loyalty and marketing solutions· and sophisticated· token life-cycle management,” said Jos van der Linden, Managing Director at PPC Card Systems.

About ViVOtech

ViVOtech is the leading end-to-end enabler of next-generation mobile payments, loyalty and marketing solutions. ViVOtech provides mobile payment solutions, mobile marketing and loyalty applications software for existing mobile devices, as well as Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled mobile handsets, Over-The-Air (OTA) provisioning infrastructure (e.g., TSM) software, NFC smart posters and contactless terminals. ViVOtech’s products are used by most prominent retailers all over the globe; the company has shipped more than 770,000 contactless and NFC payment terminals to more than 35 countries. In 2009, ViVOtech received the prestigious Frost and Sullivan North American Smart Cards Product Line Strategy of the Year Award. In 2010, ViVOtech received the 2010 Mobility Award for its NFC mobile ViVOwallet software, Smart Card Alliance Award “Outstanding Smart Card Achievement” (OSCA) Award for Innovation in Payments Technology and the Contactless Intelligence “Monkey” Awards for Competitive Advantage through Technology used by Citi Tap and Pay NFC Pilot. ViVOtech’s investors include Citi, First Data Corporation, Motorola Ventures, NCR and Nokia Growth Partners.

About PPC Card Systems

PPC Card Systems b.v. is a personalization bureau with a track record of more than 25 years. PPC is specialized in the field of secure personalization services and is certified for personalization of products from VISA, MasterCard and domestic payment schemes such as PIN and Chipknip. PPC was one of the first organizations to do large scale roll-out of contactless tokens for payment applications.

About AEM Technologies Holding AG

The Swiss company AEM Technologies Holding AG is the leading provider of products and solutions for auto ID and electronic components and systems. Its portfolio ranges from smart cards all the way to complex electronic modules and systems.

The individual companies of AEM Group currently serve customers in the access, medical systems, payment services, industrial automation, healthcare, avionics, customer loyalty, data communication and public services industries with a combined staff of over 600.

Bell ID Realizes First End-to-End EMV Issuance Platform for Top 10 Bank Saudi Arabia

Bell ID, technology leader in token management software, today announced the realization of a fully integrated end-to-end EMV issuance solution for one of Saudi Arabia’s leadings banks, the first in-Kingdom operational end-to-end platform for both central and instant issuance.

In 2009, the Bank already deployed Bell ID’s software for its central issuance operations at its headquarters. Now, Bell ID’s instant issuance solution will be deployed at the Bank’s branch in Riyadh and will be rolled out to over one hundred branches throughout the Kingdom.

The new features will enable the Bank to directly issue EMV debit cards to customers while at the branch. This not only enhances customer service but also reduces delay, cost and risk. Both the instant and central issuing solutions are certified by MasterCard and the Saudi domestic debit card scheme.

Bell ID’s software platform covers a wide array of EMV management solutions to maximize the return on investment. In addition to EMV data preparation and both central and instant issuance for contact-based smart cards, Bell ID offers also offers support for contactless (PayPass and PayWave), full card/application lifecycle management, EMV parameter management and EMV PIN change capabilities via the Internet. Furthermore, the combination of banking services with mobile phones for providing contactless applications using Near Field Communication technology is also supported, which puts the product ahead of its competition.

Erik Wellen, General Manager Middle East at Bell ID, commented: “We are pleased to facilitate the first bank in Saudi Arabia with a fully integrated EMV issuance platform, a robust and proven solution that is ready for mass rollout for both central and instant issuance. It acknowledges the strength of our EMV solutions and underlines our presence in the Middle East region.”

Bell ID and PPC Card Systems to Offer Hosted Mobile Application Management Service

Bell ID, the worldwide technology leader in token management solutions, and PPC Card Systems (PPC), an EMV certified card personalization bureau, today announced a collaboration to enable hosted provisioning and management services for secure mobile contactless applications, often known as NFC applications.

The proposition enables mobile network operators, banks and service providers to deliver mobile application provisioning and/or Trusted Service Manager (TSM) services to their client base through the use of hosted ‘over the air’ provisioning and comprehensive management services for mobile contactless applications.

The joint solution takes advantage of Bell ID’s market proven high volume token, application & key lifecycle management systems within the certified and secure operations environment, managed by PPC. This approach delivers the capability of issuing and managing companion cards to complement the mobile contactless tokens. PPC, member of the AEM Technologies Group (Switzerland), personalizes and distributes smart cards for many European financial organizations and brings significant operational expertise to the partnership.

“The collaboration between Bell ID and PPC means we can provide a broader set of solution delivery options, further encouraging mass market adoption of NFC based mobile contactless applications”, said David Orme, CEO of Bell ID. “We are pleased to integrate and partner with PPC, a well-respected and proven provider of personalization services in Europe.”

Jos van der Linden, Managing Director at PPC Card Systems, commented “As a result of this partnership with Bell ID we can now offer an additional service to our customers. With the expertise of Bell ID we can offer the best of both worlds to our clients that need secure personalization services and token life-cycle management.”

About PPC Card Systems

PPC Card Systems b.v. (www.ppc.nl) is a personalization bureau with a track record of more than 25 years. PPC is specialized in the field of secure personalization services and is certified for personalization of products from VISA, MasterCard and domestic payment schemes such as PIN and Chipknip. PPC was one of the first organizations to do large scale roll-out of contactless tokens for payment applications.

About AEM Technologies Holding AG

The Swiss company AEM Technologies Holding AG is the leading provider of products and solutions for auto ID and electronic components and systems. Its portfolio ranges from smart cards all the way to complex electronic modules and systems.

The individual companies of AEM Group currently serve customers in the access, medical systems, payment services, industrial automation, healthcare, avionics, customer loyalty, data communication and public services industries with a combined staff of over 600.

Bell ID Selected by Major Bank in Saudi Arabia for EMV Issuing Solution

Bell ID, the worldwide technology leader in smart card management solutions, today announced that it has signed with one of Saudi Arabia’s leading banks for the provision of both central and instant issuing solutions of EMV cards.

Bell ID’s software suite, ANDiS, offers a comprehensive set of features to meet the bank’s requirements, namely EMV data preparation, smart card and application management, central issuance and instant issuance of chip cards at branch locations. The offered solution will enable the personalization of MULTOS chip based SPAN debit cards at more than 100 issuance locations in Saudi Arabia and various locations in Dubai and Pakistan. The system is also ready for the personalization of chip based M/Chip and VSDC cards and applications. Furthermore it will enable central issuance at the Bank’s head office.

The financial group is a banking heavyweight with a solid presence in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia. It holds more than 100 branches across the Kingdom, with branches in London, Dubai and Pakistan.

The ANDiS platform – certified by all major domestic and international card schemes – provides the Bank with a solid foundation for its EMV issuance solution that can be extended to take advantage of more sophisticated features and functionality in the future. This would enable the Bank to maximize return on investment by offering additional features and services, meant to improve customer retention, attract new customers and introduce revenue generating applications. These features include EMV parameter management, scripting, Internet PIN change, multi-application management and post-issuance personalization. Furthermore, the combination of banking services with mobile phones for providing contactless applications using Near Field Communication technology can be supported.

Erik Wellen, General Manager Middle East at Bell ID, commented: “We are very enthusiastic about this project and look forward to providing the Bank with a solid and reliable EMV issuing solution that will deliver world-class card solutions and services to its customer base.”