GlobalPlatform announced that it will hold a two-day card specification training session March 1-2 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.
Directly preceding CARTES North America 2012 (March 5-7, Las Vegas), the training session will aim to educate CARTES delegates and other participants on the importance of GlobalPlatform Specifications, their capabilities and functionality.
GlobalPlatform and SIMalliance have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to improve application security on mobile devices.
Through the formal partnership, the associations say they will work together to develop an end-to-end solution that will enable a mobile device application to communicate with an application loaded in a secure element.
GlobalPlatform has announced that Clear2Pay, a global payment solutions provider, and Shanghai COS, a chip operating system (COS) developer, have become the organization’s newest members.
GlobalPlatform has launched the first in a series of online guides that will explain in simple terms the association’s current projects and technologies.
Up now on the GlobalPlatform Web site, the first guide covers Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), or the hardware and software on a mobile device that ensures that sensitive data is stored, processed and protected.
Adoption of EMV as the universal payment standard gained further traction in 2011, with official figures revealing that more than 42% of all payment cards and nearly 76% of all terminals in circulation globally are based on EMV technology. These numbers, however, do not reflect the U.S.
GlobalPlatform extended its compliance program for validation that secure products meets the requirements of GlobalPlatform’s new basic financial configuration.
This advancement meets industry demand for a qualification process which confirms that a financial card product operates within the payment landscape.