Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Bell ID demonstrating instant PayPass issuance

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Bell ID will offer demonstrations of the instant issuance of dual interface MasterCard PayPass cards at CARTES 2008.

The demonstration will include the personalization of PayPass M/Chip cards for Bell ID booth visitors using the Bell ID ANDiS4EMV Card and Application Management System. Visitors may keep the test cards and will be encouraged to present it at the Collis booth for card validation testing. The Collis PVT tool is certified for card validation testing by MasterCard and will be used to demonstrate to visitors that the card meets the MasterCard requirements, and is ready for deployment.


The contact and contactless interface MULTOS step/one cards are supplied by Keycorp and will be personalized with MasterCard’s Integrated Card Application dual profile PayPass M/Chip application and associated Proximity Payment System Environment using a Fargo desktop card printer.

Instant issuance of contactless cards enables banks to issue cards to customers in real time with the added convenience of high speed transactions that enables cardholders to start using their cards immediately allowing for savings on distribution costs, improved customer service and increased revenues for banks.

ANDiS4EMV, Bell ID’s solution for the Financial Market supports both bulk and instant issuance of multi-application EMV cards on MULTOS, GlobalPlatform, EMV Common Personalization and proprietary card platforms on a wide range of card printers, including Fargo, DataCard, Evolis and Dai Nippon. [end] 

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