With over 20,000 visitors, CARTES Secure Connexions Event 2013 confirmed its leading position on the market of secure solutions for payment, identification and mobility

PARIS - Friday, November 29th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

CARTES Secure Connexions Event 2013

(BUSINESS WIRE) The 28th annual of CARTES Exhibition successfully demonstrated its ability to bring together professionals of smart technologies around innovative know-how and prospective exchanges with industry experts.

450 exhibitors, from all over the world

This year, and for the first time, more than 20,000 visitors from nearly 140 countries attended the event. The 3 days of the show were, for them, the opportunity to meet 450 French and foreign exhibitors, to discuss the challenges and prospects of the sector, to present future deployments as well as 2013’s major trends in terms of payment, mobility, security and identification.

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Technology enables mobile payments using the mobile phone


AMSTERDAM - Thursday, November 28th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Regulatory News:

Vivo has selected Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, to provide the TSM (Trusted Service Manager) platform. With the Gemalto platform, the operator can offer mobile payment products and services using Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, which makes it possible to carry out financial transactions by simply tapping a mobile phone near a specific terminal.

The initiative reinforces the positioning of the company, a "Telco Digital”, and represents a further step towards the democratization of electronic payments - adding mobility, security and convenience for its users.

With the solution in place and together with Gemalto’s UpTeq multi-tenant NFC SIM cards, Vivo will be able to expand its product portfolio for m-payments, offering services to mobile customers ... Read more »