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Oberthur Technologies Chosen as the Exclusive Supplier For S2p – The Banking Subsidiary of Carrefour – for the Dual Interface Contactless Payment Card Project
Tuesday 17. March 2009 - Providing Benefits to Customers by Cutting Transaction Times and Waiting Lines Through Innovative and Faster Payment Methods
Oberthur Technologies, one of the world’s leading suppliers of contactless payment cards began delivery of its next generation Chrysalis Fly dual interface payment card to S2P as part of its new “Universal Payment Card” project, the first of its kind in France and one of Europe’s largest contactless projects to-date.
For S2P, the Chrysalis Fly card represents a way to increase the use of payment cards, replacing cash for low value payment transactions which represent the majority of transactions in Europe. Contactless payment technology allows customers to pay by simply waving their card in front of a reader. The Chrysalis Fly product also combines the proven security of an EMV chip interface with Oberthur Technologies’ state-of-the-art contactless applications, offering a vastly accelerated transaction time twice the speed of other payment cards.
For customers, transaction times are shorter, and so are the lines at the checkout, creating critical time savings for shoppers. Contactless payment brings both ease and convenience to the consumer and is a powerful tool to increase their discretionary spending in-store.
The Chrysalis Fly product is the latest addition to Oberthur Technologies’ Chrysalis EMV smart card product range. As the sole supplier for the project with S2P, Oberthur Technologies leveraged its broad experience engineering contactless cards to provide several key advantages. Oberthur Technologies’ dedicated investment in the production process, from chip, antenna and card shape evolution as well as in the manufacture and personalization of contactless cards providing S2P with a key partner in the development of a contactless device that would meet their specifications. From the inception of the project, Oberthur Technologies’ award-winning R&D teams had a clear objective to develop a product that combined high security with both performance and robustness to help S2P take maximum advantage of the Chrysalis Fly product’s exemplary security levels and unrivalled transaction speeds.
“We are extremely pleased to launch our new Chrysalis Fly contactless card solution. Throughout our project, Oberthur Technologies provided us with the responsiveness, expertise and high level of service that we have come to rely on” declared Frederic Mazurier, Financial Director for S2P and Head of the project for the new PASS cards.
“Contactless cards represent the future of the payment card,” said Eric Duforest, Managing Director Europe for the Card Systems Division at Oberthur Technologies. “With millions of contactless cards already delivered, and the launch of innovative contactless projects like S2P, Oberthur Technologies has confirmed its leadership in this strategic market. With a complete range of products for contactless payment, Oberthur provides financial institutions with a unique choice of cards to enable them to differentiate their offer while providing the best technology for their customers”.