AMSTERDAM - Tuesday, March 5th
2013 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire)--
Regulatory News:
Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653
GTO), the world leader in digital security, and SIA, a major international
payments processor for banks, corporate and Public Administration bodies, are
joining forces to support rapid deployment of NFC services throughout Italy.
Gemalto and SIA team up for the first national TSM infrastructure in Europe
that can be utilized by all of the market’s key stakeholders, accessible to the
country’s largest mobile network operators and leading banks.
Currently being piloted in
preparation of a full commercial launch in mid-2013, SIA has already secured
the support of primary Italian telecom operators and banks to provide NFC
services through its central hub that enables contactless payment transactions.
It will offer the benefits of the Allynis Trusted Service Management for
Service Providersplatform operated by Gemalto’s European secure data center,
which is certified by Visa and MasterCard.
Up to 200,000 contactless payment
terminals will be deployed in Italy by the end of 2013. By offering a secure
and scalable infrastructure that ensures full interoperability and can
seamlessly accommodate new service providers, SIA is putting Italy at the
forefront of the cashless revolution and will help enable millions of consumers
to make payments with just the tap of their mobile phone.
“By creating a central hub, we
meet the needs of both the banking and telecoms sectors fostering the NFC
ecosystem and mobile payments,” said Nicola Cordone, SIA Deputy General
Manager. “Using Gemalto’s proven platform, SIA is allowing all stakeholders to
avoid numerous individual arrangements when introducing new contactless
services.”
“Across the world, momentum is
gathering behind mobile NFC payment and in Italy in particular, where Gemalto
already has a strong footprint in TSM implementations,” said Jean-Claude
Deturche, Gemalto Senior Vice President, Mobile Financial Services. “Through
this new deployment, SIA will benefit from our effective approach to
accelerating the rollout and mass adoption of NFC services.”
About Gemalto
Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653
GTO) is the world leader in digital security with 2011 annual revenues of €2
billion and more than 10,000 employees operating out of 74 offices and 14
Research & Development centers, located in 43 countries.
We are at the heart of the
rapidly evolving digital society. Billions of people worldwide increasingly
want the freedom to communicate, travel, shop, bank, entertain and work –
anytime, everywhere – in ways that are enjoyable and safe. Gemalto delivers on
their expanding needs for personal mobile services, payment security,
authenticated cloud access, identity and privacy protection, eHealthcare and
eGovernment efficiency, convenient ticketing and dependable machine-to-machine
(M2M) applications.
Gemalto develops secure embedded
software and secure products which we design and personalize. Our platforms and
services manage these secure products, the confidential data they contain and
the trusted end-user services they enable. Our innovations enable our clients
to offer trusted and convenient digital services to billions of individuals.
Gemalto thrives with the growing
number of people using its solutions to interact with the digital and wireless
world.
For more information visit
www.gemalto.com, www.justaskgemalto.com, blog.gemalto.com, or follow @gemalto
on Twitter.
SIA is European leader in the
design, creation and management of technology infrastructures and services for
Financial and Central Institutions, Corporates and Public Administration
bodies, in the areas of payments, e-money, network services and capital
markets.
SIA Group is currently present in
around 40 countries and also operates through its subsidiaries in Hungary and
South Africa. The company has offices in Milan and Brussels.
With 8.1 billion transactions
annually relating to cards, collections and payments, 63 million cards managed
and 22.3 billion transactions on financial markets, SIA carries 11.2 thousand
billion bytes of data on the network. The Group is made up of six companies:
the parent SIA, the Italian companies Pi4Pay (services for Payment
Institutions), RA Computer (treasury solutions for banks, businesses and P.A.),
and TSP (payment collection services for companies and P.A.), Perago
(infrastructures for central banks) in South Africa and SIA Central Europe in
Hungary.
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Contacts
Gemalto Media Contacts:
Europe, Middle East & Africa
Peggy Edoire, +33 4 42 36 45 40
peggy.edoire@gemalto.com
or
Asia Pacific
Yvonne Lim, +65 6317 3730
yvonne.lim@gemalto.com
SIA Contacts:
Filippo Fantasia, +39
02.6084.2833
Head of Media Coordination
filippo.fantasia@sia.eu
or
Valentina Piana, +39 02.6084.2334
Media Coordination
valentina.piana@sia.eu
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