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Consult Hyperion joins MULTOS Consortium

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

UK-based Consult Hyperion, a payments and ID management consultant, has joined the MULTOS Consortium, a group of international organizations responsible for the maintenance and development of the MULTOS specification.

Joining as a Professional Partner member, Consult Hyperion will participate in the MULTOS Business and Technical Advisory Group meetings and will contribute towards the future direction of the MULTOS technology.

“Having been involved in some of the highest-profile MULTOS deployments in the world–in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and North America–we have considerable practical experience in using multi-application smart cards in high-security applications such as national identity cards and EMV cards,” commented Dave Birch, one of Consult’s founders. [end] 

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