Stan Beer
Sunday, 17 September 2006 06:39
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Secure electronic transaction solutions provider Keycorp Limited (ASX: KYC) has received worldwide MasterCard certification under the MasterCard PayPass M/Chip approval scheme for its MULTOS technology.
MasterCard PayPass programs let cardholders
make payments by simply tapping the card on a specially equipped
merchant terminal without having to swipe the card through a terminal.
This eliminates the need to hand over the card to a sales clerk and is
suitable for quick payment environments such as fast food outlets,
service stations, supermarkets and movie theatres.
Keycorp’s contactless MULTOS technology is already being used in a
multifunction card for banking and transit in Taiwan, which is the
world’s first MasterCard OneSmart PayPass Chip Combi Card, known as the
TaiwanMoney Card.
As a result of the certification by MasterCard, Keycorp is now able to
work with a number of card manufacturing partners to offer a
contactless chip payment product for general use by any issuer
worldwide who wants to offer a OneSmart PayPass product.
“Contactless payment cards are becoming increasingly popular and there
is a growing trend to combine a number of applications on a single
card,” said Richard Cusson, Keycorp’s General Manager, Smartcard
Technologies.
“Keycorp is well placed to address those opportunities because of the
security, openness and flexibility of our MULTOS technology with the
added ability to offer contactless and contact card EMV applications to
some of the most innovative issuers worldwide.”
“Mastercard is pleased to announce that Keycorp’s Type A Reduced
Embossing M/Chip 4 PayPass card has now achieved full certification,”
said Toni Merschen, Head of Chip Center of Excellence, Global
e-Business and Emerging Technologies, MasterCard Worldwide. “This
milestone allows us to provide our customer financial institutions
globally with a fully type approved product to support their
contactless payment ambitions.”