“Our partnership with Saetic is strategically important to us because their position in Spain offers us more opportunities to engage the contactless EMV market there,” said Bertrand Moussel, Executive Vice President of Sales of EMEA and LATAM of Inside Contactless. ”As one of the most technically advanced card manufacturers in the world, Saetic is an ideal partner for us to work with in applying our next-generation MicroPass technology and novel form factors.” Since it was first launched at CARTES in November of 2005, the MicroPass intelligent payment platform has achieved its success by continuing to deliver superior performance and flexibility, and is now the platform of choice for certified card manufacturers around the world. The MicroPass platform is designed to power open standard contactless and dual-interface bank card payments along with other value-added applications in all global regions. Based upon a RISC architecture and optimized to the demanding requirements of contactless transactions, each of the MicroPass family of products is designed to meet the demands of issuer organizations in the bank card payments, transit and access control markets. “Inside already provides us with MasterCard® PayPass® chips for cards and fobs, and is able to provide us with type-approved solutions and embedded software so that we can deliver cost-effective, flexible contactless EMV products to our customers quickly and easily,” said Silvano Guillamet, president of Saetic. gmiallet@insidefr.com www.insidecontactless.com