Adding contactless capability to the ANDiS4EMV solution portfolio was in response to a number of payment schemes informing their members earlier this year that they will need to move to a more secure, but also more complex contactless technology. The new contactless electronic payment applications will require issuers to change their card production processes for their contactless card product. The ANDiS4EMV contactless option provides an out of the box solution that can be implemented quickly. It also provides scalability for potential growth, with the opportunity to extend the system to address other issues, such as: – Issuing contactless applications on NFC enabled mobile phones – Personalising and managing additional contactless applications – Data preparation – EMV scripting to enable offline contactless transactions. Erik Vermeer, Technical Director of Bell ID comments: “We are very proud to be the first Card and Application Management solution to address the changes required for the next generation of contactless payment applications. An increasing number of issuers realise that managing the secure issuance of their payment card products is really something they want to keep in-house, so we have developed an easy to implement solution for the upcoming migration to qVSDC and M/Flex. A significant benefit of migrating from magnetic stripe-based contactless cards to EMV-based contactless cards is global interoperability. As different regions will set different security requirements for contactless cards, it is possible that contactless cards issued in one region will not work in other regions. Both qVSDC and M/Flex provide the flexibility to overcome this situation and we have been very encouraged by the positive response from the market.” a.curtis@bellid.com www.bellid.com