Olivier Brunet, Product and Marketing director at SPS, declares: “With the addition of this platform based on STMicroelectronics solution, our customers are given more options to ensure they satisfy the booming demand for dual interface banking cards. This choice of platforms associated with the manufacturing cost reduction brought by SPS EBooster® technology ensures card manufacturers are in the best position to answer market demand”.
With this addition, thanks to SPS EBooster® technology and modular approach, smart card manufacturers are given a full set of options: they can select between major semi-conductor vendors, and choose native, JavaCard or Multos based operating systems. This way, smart card manufacturers are able to adapt easily to the complexity of market demand and ensure they are able to deliver banking cards fitting all financial institutions requirements.
With this modular approach, SPS’s customers are ideally positioned to benefit both from mature smart card based banking markets, for instance in Europe, Asia or Latin America, and from upcoming developments such as the United States and China.