Oberthur Technologies’s China plant obtains CUP certification
25 August, 2009
category: Financial
Oberthur Technologies has successfully completed China Union Pay certification for its Shenzhen manufacturing center which is providing several hundred million SIM cards globally for the telecom industry and is now supplying magnetic stripe and EMV cards to banking customers in China and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Already certified by Visa, MasterCard and AmEx as a response to the steady growth of the EMV market in Asia, Oberthur’s Shenzhen production unit is increasing the scope of its operations with this successful certification payment scheme standard.
“The Shenzhen manufacturing site was recently extended to provide state of the art capabilities to address the Asia Pacific banking market. This certification is an important milestone to strengthen our offer in the region,” said Oberthur’s Xavier Drilhon, managing director of the Card Systems Division.