Thursday, November 3, 2011

Identive and INSIDE Secure Deliver 10 Millionth Smart Ticket to Southeast Asian Resort

SANTA ANA, Calif., ISMANING, Germany and AIX EN PROVENCE, France, Nov. 3, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Identive Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:INVE) (Frankfurt:INV) and INSIDE Secure today announced the delivery of the 10 millionth smart ticket to a popular vacation destination in Southeast Asia. The thermal printed guest tickets are used at the resort for contactless admission to various attractions and guest facilities.

"Our customer has experienced a three-fold increase in visitors over the past year, which has required rapid turnaround on new ticket designs and production to keep up with their growing demand," said Michael Kober, managing director of Identive's Transponder division. "Our goal is always to provide a consistently high level of quality and service, and we are very pleased to have achieved this high-volume milestone of 10 million tickets with this valued customer."

Over the past 24 months, Identive has supported this Southeast Asia customer with specialized singular and fanfold guest tickets across a range of printed media, as well as printed contactless smart cards used for special memberships and events. The tickets and smart cards are based on Identive's Smartag antenna and inlay designs, utilize PicoPass™ contactless memory card technology from INSIDE Secure and are produced at Identive's manufacturing facility in Singapore.

"Our versatile, open-standards PicoPass contactless memory chips are ideal for multi-purpose applications like the Identive contactless smart tickets because they can manage up to 16 independent applications while ensuring their individual security settings, and can store large amounts of data, including high quality photographs, fingerprints, biometric templates, signatures and data records. We are excited to have them play such a central role at this popular resort," said Bertrand Moussel, executive vice president for worldwide sales at INSIDE Secure. "INSIDE has worked very closely with Identive as our partner for this project to help integrate PicoPass with the Smartag antenna designs, and look forward to their continued success with this customer."

About INSIDE Secure

INSIDE Secure is a leading designer, developer and supplier of semiconductors, embedded software and platforms for secure transactions and digital security. INSIDE mobile NFC, secure payment and digital security products provide security for a wide range of information processing, storage and transmission applications. The company's customers are found in a wide range of markets including mobile payment, identification documents, access control, transit, electronic device manufacturing, pay television and mobile service operators. For more information visit www.insidesecure.com.

About Identive Group

Identive Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:INVE) (Frankfurt:INV) is focused on building the world's signature company in Secure ID. The company's products, software, systems and services address the markets for identity management, physical and logical access control, NFC and a host of RFID-enabled applications for customers in the government, enterprise, consumer, education, healthcare and transportation sectors. Identive's mission is to build a lasting business of scale and technology based on a combination of strong technology-driven organic growth and disciplined acquisitive expansion. For additional info visit: www.identive-group.com.

Cartera Commerce to Present at 2011 ATM, Debit & Prepaid Forum

Session Will Provide the Blueprint for How Banks Are Leveraging Card-Linked Offers to Generate Significant New Revenue

LEXINGTON, MA--(Marketwire - Nov 3, 2011) - Cartera Commerce, the leading provider of card-linked marketing solutions, today announced that President and CEO Tom Beecher will speak at the 2011 ATM, Debit & Prepaid Forum on Friday, November 4 in Las Vegas, Nevada as part of the debit track. The session "Making Lemonade Out of the Durbin Lemon" will address how banks are re-imagining how they fund rewards programs and drive revenue in the wake of the Durbin Amendment.

Who: Chris Van Steenberg SVP, Citizens Financial Group and Tom Beecher CEO and President, Cartera Commerce

What: Debit Forum Track Session "Making Lemonade Out of the Durbin Lemon"

When: Friday, November 4, 2011, 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

The 19th annual ATM, Debit & Prepaid Forum will be held Nov. 1-4, 2011 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, and will feature a program designed to provide actionable information on ATMs, debit cards, prepaid cards, mobile payments and regulation. For more information, visithttp://www.paymentssource.pth4.com/conferences/atmdebit.

About Cartera CommerceCartera Commerce is the leading provider of card-linked marketing solutions that increase revenue and customer loyalty for merchants, banks, issuers and loyalty programs. For merchants, Cartera powers the industry's largest card-linked advertising network that targets shopping offers to more than 150 million loyal consumers and tracks in-store and online sales. For banks, issuers and loyalty programs, Cartera provides the industry's most comprehensive card-linked offer platform that powers personalized in-store and online shopping programs that build consumer engagement, maximize card spend and create new revenue streams. Cartera's platform delivers card-linked offers via multiple digital marketing channels including Websites, online banking, email, mobile, social media and browser apps. Four of the five largest financial institutions, three of the four largest airlines and 60,000 merchant advertisers drive incremental revenue with Cartera's fully-managed, performance-based solutions. The company is headquartered in Lexington, MA and has significant operations in Atlanta, GA. For more information, visit www.cartera.com.

893 Million Mobile Payments Users in 2015

ROCKVILLE, MD--(Marketwire - Nov 2, 2011) - MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "3Q.2011 Global Mobile Payment Market Forecast 2009 - 2015: Global mobile payments users to hit 893 million in 2015 with $945 billion in transaction value," to their collection of E-Financial Services market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/IE-Market-Research-Corp-v3383/3Q-Global-Mobile-Payment-Forecast-6622689/

This report covers annual forecasts of mobile payment users; mobile payment transactions by technology (such as NFC, SMS, WAP, USSD); and mobile payment transactions by type of purchase (such as merchandise, digital products, ticketing, mobile money transfers, bill payments, and pre-paid top-ups).

The report is based on a telecommunications survey -- which covers 50,000 mobile users in 50 markets globally -- and is the most extensive country-specific forecasts of its kind.

This report will be useful to:

Strategists and analysts at mobile phone operators and banks/credit card companies responsible for mobile payment strategy development and business analytics
Developers of mobile payment systems at handset manufacturers
Device manufacturers in all areas of the telecommunications market that need strategy recommendations on key trends in the global mobile payment industry
Financial analysts and portfolio managers covering firms in the mobile payment market
Consultants advising their clients on mobile payment markets
Researchers who need to gain a better understanding of the global mobile payment market

For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/IE-Market-Research-Corp-v3383/3Q-Global-Mobile-Payment-Forecast-6622689/

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NXP's NFC Solution Implemented in Galaxy Nexus From Google

SOURCE: NXP Semiconductors

Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, Supports Full NFC Experience

EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS--(Marketwire - Nov 2, 2011) - NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) today announced that the recently launched Galaxy Nexus™ from Google™ incorporates NXP's fully integrated near field communication (NFC) solution PN65N. Featuring a NFC radio controller and an embedded Secure Element, the PN65N is also fully validated and integrated on the latest release of Android™ 4.0, also referred to as Ice Cream Sandwich. The availability of NXP's open-source NFC software on Ice Cream Sandwich enables mobile phone and now also tablet manufacturers to quickly and easily design NFC-enabled, Android-based mobile devices. For application developers, Android support for NXP's complete NFC solution provides a unique opportunity to create new applications for mobile payment/secure card emulation, tag read/write and peer-to-peer communication, bringing the full NFC experience to consumers.

Facts/Highlights

Galaxy Nexus offers the full NFC potential based on a mature and proven software stack. The NFC software has been extensively field tested on the Gingerbread version of Android and has already been deployed on the first NFC-enabled Google Experience Device, Nexus S.
A new feature introduced in Galaxy Nexus is Android Beam which, using NFC technology, allows you to instantly share information such as webpages, YouTube videos, maps, directions, and other apps by simply tapping two NFC-enabled phones together.
Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, is a mobile OS designed for both smart phones and tablets. NXP's open-source NFC software stack supports full NFC functionality enabling many NFC use cases and applications such as proximity marketing, smart poster reading, data sharing, quick social media check-in or device pairing.
The PN65N features an embedded Secure Element, which uses the same proven and tested NXP security solution found in bank cards; electronic passports; transportation and ticketing; physical access and other contactless applications. The PN65N is pin-to-pin compatible with the PN544 NFC radio controller giving manufacturers the choice to design with or without the secure element.
Field proven in numerous trials and successful commercial deployments NXP's secure element enabled NFC technology supports MIFARE and enables best-in-class interoperability with the existing contactless reader infrastructure, such as those used in transport ticketing and physical access applications.

Supporting quote"NXP is the undisputed market leader in NFC and the only company that offers the complete NFC product portfolio including software, radio controller, Secure Element, and NFC tags. This enables us to deliver not only components but total solutions to our customers worldwide," said Jeff Miles, vice president, mobile transactions, NXP Semiconductors. "Working with Google on two Nexus devices demonstrates our unparalled leadership in the NFC space."

NFC is a market proven technology co-invented by NXP in 2002. In 2004 NXP co-founded the NFC Forum to lead the collaboration with all industry stakeholders and help standardize the technology. NFC technology evolved from a combination of contactless identification (RFID) and interconnection technologies. Ranked as the number one contactless IC vendor by ABI Research for three years in a row, NXP is the global leader in NFC solutions, field proven in over 150 NFC trials and landmark commercial deployments worldwide.

Links

NXP portfolio for NFC
NXP NFC Product Sheet (PN544 NFC Radio Controller)
Additional information on near field communication (NFC)
Video: NFC read applications on Nexus S

About NXP SemiconductorsNXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) provides High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product solutions that leverage its leading RF, Analog, Power Management, Interface, Security and Digital Processing expertise. These innovations are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications. A global semiconductor company with operations in more than 25 countries, NXP posted revenue of $4.4 billion in 2010. For more information visit www.nxp.com.

Nexus, Google, and Android are trademarks of Google, Inc.

Google Wallet Creates New Payments Ecosystem Dynamics

SOURCE: MarketResearch.com

ROCKVILLE, MD--(Marketwire - Nov 1, 2011) - MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "Google Wallet and the New Payments Ecosystem," to their collection of Banking & Financial Services market reports. For more information, visithttp://www.marketresearch.com/Searching-Finance-Ltd-v3881/Google-Wallet-Payments-Ecosystem-6619703/

The mobile payments market is starting over. When the Google Wallet launched on September 20, 2011, the first test of a remarkable new financial ecosystem began. But despite the apparent success of traditional mobile payments products like M-PESA in Kenya and South Africa, Google and rival Isis have decided to rewrite the business model -- and for good reason.

Actually, four good reasons:

1) Significant revenue is available from the advertising, retention and rewards programs, leaving the usual payments fees to the payments companies.
2) The payments ecosystem cannot afford new categories. The existing players are companies with considerable resources and the willingness to use their resources thwarting a new category of entrants.
3) Regulatory pressures are already pressuring known revenue streams, increasing the motivation for existing players in the payments ecosystem to protect position.
4) Cash is resilient to other tender types in developed worlds, not so in developing countries.

As a result, both Isis and the Google Wallet products are creating a simple strategy which lets the payment ecosystem continue to charge and earn as much as possible from the payments business. The new revenue these companies seek to earn comes from two vulnerable industries: advertising and loyalty. Google, with its extreme interest in data collection and distribution, will likely seek new revenue from that channel also.

The strategies of these two companies, which are likely to be eventually joined by Apple and Amazon in their approach, have substantially slowed mobile commerce development in the rest of the developed world. Even Japan, which has used an NFC-like technology for most of the last decade, is highly interested in understanding the results of the American experiments before committing to a long-term strategy.

And they are not in a hurry. The only short-range communication standard with approval from the International Standards Organization is ISO/IEC 14443, known simply as Near-Field Communications or NFC. To use either the Google Wallet or Isis product as they are currently understood, the customer will either need a phone with an NFC chip built in (which is in exactly one model out of hundreds of models of mobile phones in the US -- The Samsung Nexus S) and merchants will need to invest in NFC readers at their cash registers (also known as POS terminals).

Whether the US experiments succeed or fail, one thing is certain -- the unenhanced peer-to-peer payments systems like M-PESA have no chance to reach the mainstream of the US or any developed country. The environment is simply too hostile from entrenched payments incumbents, and from feature-rich new services.

A different breed of service that includes advertising and rewards programs as well as data services will vastly overshadow stand-alone mobile payments products. These new services are called "mobile commerce."

The overriding conclusion is that the winning mobile commerce business model, inclusive of the mobile commerce players that will prevail in the long term, may be decided months or years before mobile commerce penetrates the general transaction volume by more than one half of 1% in developed markets.

For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/Searching-Finance-Ltd-v3881/Google-Wallet-Payments-Ecosystem-6619703/

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Oberthur Technologies provides mobile security with Intrinsic-ID anti-cloning technology

November 03, 2011 03:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Demonstrating Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) technology to enable secure provisioning and deployment of trusted mobile applications at Cartes 2011

CARTES & IDentification 2011

NANTERRE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oberthur Technologies, the world’s second largest provider of security and identification solutions and services based on smart card technologies, is proud to announce the development of PUF technology in smart cards, in collaboration with Intrinsic-ID.

“Once again, Oberthur Technologies is at the fore front of innovation and security research. Combining its R&D strength and efficiency with its long term pragmatic approach regarding new developments, the Group offers today its clients new security features to answer new security problems”

PUFs are widely recognised as an important new security primitive and provide embedded systems with silicon biometry. Using this insight, Oberthur Technologies and Intrinsic-ID joined forces to promote PUFs to propose solutions to new security needs.

Thanks to PUF technology, secret and personal data do no longer need to be stored in Non Volatile Memory but can be rebuilt, when needed, from an electronic unique property of the silicon. In such a way, PUF enforces the anticloning mechanisms of embedded systems and banking, identity or transport applications are natural targets for this technology.

Taking advantage of the secure element biometric, PUF can also create a strong link between an application and a device hosting it. In a world where more and more security services (e.g. banking applications, access control, and content protection) are executed in a mobile environment, there is a need for trusted and secure systems. When combined with the classical assets of secure elements, PUF answers this need and brings trust by pairing applications with secure elements.

“Once again, Oberthur Technologies is at the fore front of innovation and security research. Combining its R&D strength and efficiency with its long term pragmatic approach regarding new developments, the Group offers today its clients new security features to answer new security problems,” said Marc Bertin, Technologies and Innovation Director at Oberthur Technologies.

“We are delighted that Oberthur Technologies has selected Intrinsic-ID’s Quiddikey™ product to develop new security features,” said Pim Tuyls, CEO Intrinsic-ID. “The combination of the proven card technology of Oberthur Technologies and the Intrinsic-ID security IP enables an entirely new range of compelling applications on mobile phones and tablets.”

Oberthur Technologies will showcase this technology at Cartes 2011.

About Oberthur Technologies

Oberthur Technologies is a world leader in the field of secure technologies: systems development, solutions and services for smart cards (payment cards, SIM cards, access cards, NFC…) and for secure identity documents, traditional and electronic (identity card, passport, health care card), production of banknotes, cheques and other fiduciary documents, intelligent systems to secure cash-in-transit and ATM. Oberthur Technologies has 6,800 employees through 40 countries and 65 sites. The Group posted 2010 sales of €979M.

Website www.oberthur.com

About Intrinsic-ID

Intrinsic-ID is recognized as a worldwide leader in security solutions, delivering semiconductor IP and embedded software products based on Hardware Intrinsic Security.

Our solutions revolve around patented Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) technology, where a secret key is extracted like a silicon biometric or fingerprint from silicon hardware directly and only when required.

Attackers have nothing to find because no key is stored nor present in the power down state.

We leverage our security expertise and product offering in several markets and applications, ranging from SmartCards, Automotive, Set-Top Box and Pay-TV applications, Networking & Comms, Mobile, as well as Government and Military applications.

Intrinsic-ID’s security solutions excel by their ease-of-integration in a standard manufacturing flow, their scalability and small area and/or SW footprint which enables mass-scale deployment in cost-sensitive consumer applications.

Intrinsic-ID was founded in 2008 as a spin-out of Royal Philips Electronics and is headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Its technology and products leverage many years of industrial development at Philips and have received public endorsement by leading electronic companies such as NXP and Microsemi.

Research and Markets: Payment Report China - Local Conditions, Statistical Data, Key Players and More...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Payment Report China" report to their extensive offering of e-commerce market research publications.

Payment Report China is based on extensive research and analysis of the local conditions, requirements and habits of the Chinese payment market. Aside from indispensable statistical data, the report contains detailed information about local players, payment methods and schemes as well as market shares. Additionally, the report includes a general commerce and payment market overview, with special emphasis on e- and m-commerce. Last but not least, we have added practical advice on how to profit from all the business opportunities that internationalisation and globalisation offer, making the report a comprehensive and valuable resource to understand the dynamics of the Chinese payment market.

Who should read the Payment Report China report, and why:

Foreign Payment Service Providers

get all necessary data to assess market attractiveness for your market entry decision
enable competition analysis
all information required to serve local and global merchants with valuable consulting regarding selling to foreign markets
provide payment schemes to specific target groups and increase your transaction volume
all information and contact data to find the best local payment or acquiring partner
find a risk management partner

Local Payment Service Providers

enable competition analysis
enable your very own sales and marketing strategy
improve your strategic position on the market
increase you market share

Local or globally oriented Merchants

find the most effective payment schemes to reach your specific target groups
give customers the convenience of the most common local methods to pay
find the best fitting local Payment Service Provider
find the best fitting Payment Service Provider abroad (if the country is not served properly by a local PSP)
find all necessary data to assess market attractiveness for your market entry decision

Local or globally oriented Scheme Operators

learn about new business models and the status of product development of the competitors
find new ideas how to make your schemes and services more attractive and effective
find gaps in the local markets to expand internationally.

Acquirers

find attractive Payment Service Provider as ISO of their services
find all necessary data to assess market attractiveness for their market entry decision
enable competition analysis

Key Topics Covered:

e-payment and m-payment
Invoicing
Prepayment
Direct debit
Cash on delivery (COD)
Prepaid card
Online transfer
Wallet Payment
Instalment payment

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/47eee5/payment_report_chi.

Payment Report United Kingdom - Local Conditions, Statistical Data, Key Players and More...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of PAY.ON AG's "Payment Report United Kingdom" report to their extensive offering of e-commerce market research publications.

Payment Report United Kingdom, the latest report from industry experts PAY.ON AG, is based on extensive research and analysis of the local conditions, requirements and habits of the UK payment market. Aside from indispensable statistical data, the report contains detailed information about local players, payment methods and schemes as well as market shares. Additionally, the report includes a general commerce and payment market overview, with special emphasis on e- and m-commerce. Last but not least, we have added practical advice on how to profit from all the business opportunities that internationalisation and globalisation offer, making the report a comprehensive and valuable resource to understand the dynamics of the UK payment market.

Who should read the Payment Report United Kingdom report, and why: