Contactless Cards & Payments (2008)

http://www.mastercard.com

MasterCard Europe is the entity responsible for managing MasterCard Worldwide’s business in Europe - for Europe. With headquarters in Waterloo, Belgium, MasterCard Europe works with 51 European countries organized administratively into three customer areas, incorporating the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), mature markets and the developing markets of Europe, stretching as far afield as the eastern border of Russia. Through its network of local offices, MasterCard Europe can understand and meet the diverse needs of customers in the very different types of markets throughout Europe, enabling people to do business in their own way in their own language.

Through MasterCard Worldwide, MasterCard Europe offers its European customers and consumers access to leading payment services throughout the world. MasterCard Worldwide advances global commerce by providing a critical economic link among financial institutions, businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide. As a franchisor, processor and advisor, MasterCard develops and markets payment solutions, processes over 16 billion transactions each year, and provides industry-leading analysis and consulting services to financial institution customers and merchants. Through its family of brands, including MasterCard®, Maestro® and Cirrus®, MasterCard serves consumers and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. For more information go to http://www.mastercard.com

http://www.collis.nl

Collis is a market leader in the designing and testing of electronic transaction systems (contact and contactless). We have been providing high-quality Testing Tools and expert Consultancy & Training to the Payment, e-Identification & Mobile markets for over a decade. This includes expert NFC and Consultancy and Training specifically targeted towards those wanting to know more about NFC technology, the NFC ecosystem, business models, and deployment and operation of NFC services. It is beneficial for financial institutions, public transport operators, handset and terminal manufacturers and mobile network operators. Together with our contactless-based Testing Tools (which include the award winning* SmartWave Box), Collis is a one-stop solution to all your NFC needs.

Collis enjoys official recognition from all major associations in the industries e.g. Visa, MasterCard, JCB, EMVCo, GCF. For more information visit: www.collis.nl

*1st Runner up as ‘Most innovative and advanced Payments Hardware Product’ at the EPCA/ECR 2008 Awards

http://www.espsystex.co.uk

ESP Systex are the UK’s leading provider of smartcard encoding and print services for Citizen Card and Mass Transit projects with over 6.5 million ITSO cards issued for National Schemes in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales

We work with a broad range of smartcard platforms from contactless protected memory Mifare cards through to high-end dual interface microprocessor cards such as JCOP41.

Our services include Data Capture and Database Cleansing; Processing and data capture from Customer Applications Forms; Turnkey Systems for local card issuance, and Expert Assistance in Managing the end-to-end process.

We hold comprehensive ITSO certification covering every smartcard type and every ITSO product entity and we have recently enabled certification of a Near Field Communications (NFC) mobile device with our systems software.

Many of our cards incorporate closed purses or top-up products and we are currently in the process of migrating to EMV provision for our wider cardholder base.

http://www.gi-de.com/

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is a technology leader in the field of smart cards and NFC technology, providing smart card based solutions for telecommunications, electronic payment, health care, ID, transportation, and IT security (PKI). G&D has been a leader in contactless solutions around the globe for over 10 years. Product offerings include pure contactless, dual interface, and combi/hybrid (contact and contactless) solutions. Over the years, G&D’s contactless technology has proven itself in the field in many pilots and mass roll-outs from ticketing and transport to payment. Based in Munich, Germany, the G&D group has subsidiaries and joint ventures around the world. In fiscal 2007, the Group employed some 9,000 people and generated revenue of €1.5 billion. For more information, visit our Web site at www.gi-de.com.

http://www.nxp.com/

NXP is a top 10 semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50 years ago. Headquartered in Europe, the company has 37,000 employees working in more than 20 countries and posted sales of EUR 5 billion in 2006. NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that deliver better sensory experiences in contact and contactless payment solutions, mobile phones, personal media players, TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.