As prime contractor, Gemalto supplied BankMuscat and Royal Oman Police with Coesys ePurse, its turnkey solution that includes the ePurse in the card, the post-issuance solution to activate the application, and the centralized system to manage the transactions. Gemalto also provided consulting services, project management as well as support and maintenance. BankMuscat, which acts as an issuer of the ePurse, initiated and implemented the project. Going forward, the Information Technology Authority will host the ePurse system in-house and expand the application to all the banks in Oman. With the Gemalto solution, Omani citizens and residents benefit from the convenience of ePurse without the need to renew their e-ID card. For the Omani government, this flexible solution represents significant savings. Users can use the ePurse to perform transactions to pay for administrative fees notably for birth and marriage certificates, car registration, driving license and visa application. They can also reload their mobile phone prepaid subscription and make purchases in a number of large supermarkets.In the future, the ePurse application will enable payment of public car parks and toll gates. „“Oman is a forerunner in implementing an ePurse on e-ID cards and Gemalto is proud to support this program launch,““ said Jacques Seneca, executive vice president of the Security Business Unit for Gemalto. „“This project demonstrates Gemalto’s ability to leverage its installed base of intelligent identity documents to enable new services for the benefit of its clients and their partners. Some of these cards have been in the field since 2005 and still will benefit from the upgrade: this breakthrough opens up a realm of new e-services to citizens and illustrates Gemalto’s strategy.““ www.gemalto.com