Gemalto
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Gemalto is an international digital security company, providing secure personal devices such as smart cards and tokens in addition to software applications and managed services
. The company was formed in June 2006 by the combination of two companies Axalto
and Gemplus International
. Gemalto’s 2010 revenue was €1.91 billion.
Governments, wireless operators, banks, and enterprises use Gemalto’s personal devices such as SIMs
in mobile phones, smart bankcards, e-passports, identity credentials and USB tokens. In 2008, the company produced more than 1.4 billion personal security computing devices.
The company's customers include 400 mobile network operators, 300 financial institutions and more than 30 nations for identity programs like electronic passports, driver’s licenses and national identity cards.
Gemalto N.V. is a public company incorporated in the Netherlands. It is headquartered in Amsterdam, and has subsidiaries and group companies around the world. The U.S. headquarters is in Austin, Texas
. Globally, Gemalto has 10,000 employees, 87 sales and marketing offices; 18 production sites, 30 personalization centers, and 13 R&D centers in 45 countries.
began its chip card activities in February 1979 when it licensed and marketed certain chip card technologies developed and patented by Roland Moreno, who is generally credited with the invention of the chip card.
Schlumberger developed the first telephone chip cards for France Telecom
and the Swedish telecommunications operator Telia
in the early 1980s. The company developed long-standing and close ties with telecommunications operators around the world and, as a result, played a role in industry-wide efforts to develop new digital mobile communication standards, particularly the GSM transmission standard (Global System for Mobile Communication). Schlumberger designed its first SIM
(Subscriber Identity Module) card in the early 1990s for the launch of GSM in Europe
, and this led to the use of microprocessor card technology as an access and security solution for mobile telephony worldwide, in 3 billion handsets today.
In the early 1980s, the French banking sector decided to migrate from the magnetic stripe card-based payment system to a more modern and secure microprocessor card-based system. Schlumberger received its first contract in June 1981 to provide GIE Cartes Bancaires, the French credit/debit card issuers’ association, with 5,000 microprocessor cards and 200 associated POS terminals. The microprocessor card-based payment system subsequently became standard in France and eventually led to a global standard known as EMV
, set up by Europay, MasterCard and Visa. Today there are over 1 billion EMV cards in circulation.
Schlumberger experienced strong internal and external growth since the launch of its chip card operations in the early 1980s through the 1990s and 2000s, both in terms of revenue and product portfolio, particularly with the substantial growth in GSM-based mobile telecommunications. Significant acquisitions of regional companies in card production and personalization included Cowells (United Kingdom), Malco (United States), Printer (Mexico) and Cardtech (Brazil). The acquisition of Solaic in 1996 and Bull-CP8 from Bull in 2001 allowed the company to strengthen its presence in the banking services in France and China.
In 2003, Schlumberger created Axalto as a division to consolidate into one company all of its card and POS terminal activities, which until then had been managed by several subsidiaries and joint ventures of the Schlumberger group. Subsequently Axalto
was successfully listed on the Euronext
Paris market on May 18, 2004.
Prior to 1999, the business was conducted through Gemplus S.C.A., a French limited partnership. In December 1999, Gemplus Associates, the general partner of Gemplus S.C.A., merged into Gemplus S.C.A., which became a joint stock company, Gemplus SA. In February 2000, the corporate structure was reorganized and a new holding company, Gemplus International SA, a Luxembourg corporation, was created. Texas Pacific Group became a shareholder of Gemplus at the time of its equity contribution in February 2000.
In December 2000, the company completed an initial public offering of its capital stock, in the form of ordinary shares traded on the Eurolist of Euronext Paris, and ADSs traded on the U.S. NASDAQ exchange. In 2004, the company completed the planned reorganization of its corporate structure by transferring most of the subsidiaries of Gemplus SA to Gemplus International SA.
In April 2005, Gemplus acquired Setec OY, a company headquartered in Finland that, among other things, supplies conventional and electronic travel passports to various government agencies and products involving secure printing.
With the merger, the two former smart card companies set out to achieve a new, broader vision for Gemalto—to be the world’s leading digital security company. Gemalto CEO Olivier Piou explained the term "digital security" and Gemalto’s vision in a 2008 interview:
"Digital security has a key role to play in the ‘digital revolution’– a major trend already bringing huge benefits to developed countries, and being enthusiastically adopted by emerging nations. Yet fear of fraud, identity theft and other concerns are holding people back from making the most of these opportunities. They need to feel that the wealth of devices and services on offer are both convenient to use and trustworthy. So convenience and trust are at the core of our vision of digital security. Developments in all our key markets show how well received they are… We are continuously expanding the possibilities of secure digital technology with new services and new products, and winning meaningful contracts in all segments and geographies."
s, Secure Transactions and Security
, as well as functional organizations for marketing; operations including both production and research and development; finance; human resources and legal.
In 2007, Gemalto organized the telecom business into four strategic lines: secure operated services, advanced products and data services, value-added products and service deployment, and SIM
cards.
Innovation and new markets are an important focus of the company. In October, Gemalto won the 2007 Frost & Sullivan
Product Innovation Award in the field of mobile contactless technologies for its Smart Card Web Server (SCWS).
Each year since 2000, Gemalto has organized the SIMagine contest, the Worldwide Mobile Communication & Java Card Developers Contest, aimed at stimulating innovations using SIM-based solutions. Sponsors include Samsung Semiconductor Europe and Sun Microsystems.
jointly announced that they are working together on the next phase of the mobile phone payment pilot, testing secure over-the-air (OTA) delivery of mobile payment software and credit card information to a customer's mobile phone. The companies announced that Gemalto would provide this capability by acting as the Trusted Service Manager and securely bridging banking with mobile phones. Gemalto’s role is to manage the transfer of credit card information from RBC to the secure SIM card in the Rogers Wireless NFC-enabled mobile phone.
Gemalto has played the TSM role in several other NFC
pilots around the world including France and Taiwan. In November 2007, Gemalto partnered with Taiwan’s Far EasTone Telecommunications Ltd. to start Asia’s first mobile contactless SIM-based NFC trial, as part of the GSM Association’s 'Pay-Buy Mobile' initiative.
, a mobile operator in Turkey, began using Gemalto’s SIM-based mobile signature solution. The solution allows the 30 million Turkcell subscribers to access services that require strong authentication, such as internet banking or e-government applications, while using their mobile phones to generate a legally binding electronic signature.
chose Gemalto, in February 2008, to provide SIM cards for the first large-scale multimedia SIM commercial deployment in Asia. The project is taking place in Guangdong, Shanxi, Beijing, Jiangsu and Shanghai provinces.
Smart Card Profile compliant mobile TV consumer trial in Singapore, providing mobile TV SIM cards and viewership measurement services.
According to the Nilson Report (November 2007), Gemalto is a world leader in technologies and services for securing transactions, with 15% market share in payment cards.
Gemalto delivered 230 million microprocessor
cards for secure transactions in 2007.
According to the Nilson report, Gemalto is the number one provider of chip cards, selling 1.5 billion chip cards, representing 49 percent of the market. At the start of 2010 in Germany 20 million ATM cards and 3.5 million credit cards are hit by an end-of-the-decade programming glitch which prevented them working.
Gemalto’s customers include 300 of the world’s banks.
Gemalto worldwide banking and retail customers include Abbey U.K, ABN- AMRO Netherlands, Atkia, Finland, American Express
, Banque Accord France, Accord Italia Italia Caisse d'Epargne France, La Caixa Spain, Crédit Agricolel (France), Diners Club Croatia, Findomestic Italy, Fortis Belgium. Hansabank Estonia, HBOS UK, HSBC UK, ING Belgium, JCB, National Bank of Greece, OpBank, Parex Bank (Latvia), Sampo (Finland), Société Générale
, Agip France, Arena Netherlands, BMW, B.P., Esso, Sodexho
, and Total France.
in Turkey began rolling out 300,000 Gemalto EMV contactless bankcards.
and eCommerce
security solutions under the Ezio brand name. The Ezio Suite includes:
Gemalto eBanking supports the Ezio Suite with a range of services including implementation, security audit, design and consulting, training, fulfilment and support.
Ezio technology is in use in banks such as ABN AMRO
, Barclays and Nordea
.
(e-passports) solutions to the United States, Singapore, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, India, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Qatar, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and Turkey.
As of March 2007, Gemalto has provided technology to more than 10 million e-passports, earning the company recognition from Keesing Journal of Documents and Identity as the number one provider of e-passport solutions with an estimated 30 percent market share.
In the United States, Gemalto is one of just two vendors picked by the Government Printing Office to supply their e-passport program and delivered significant quantities in 2007.
In December 2007, Gemalto began supplying Sweden with e-driver’s licenses that contain a transparent window in the pure polycarbonate structure for enhanced physical security. Gemalto will supply Sweden with 600,000 e-driver’s licenses per year for three years.
In July, Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK), a Germany health insurer, also picked Gemalto to supply and personalize 35 million e-health insurance cards. The cards contain emergency data such as blood group, allergy alerts and ongoing treatments, and e-prescriptions.
s to the U.S. Department of Defense
for employee and contractor use.
Gemalto has delivered more than 100 million transit cards globally.
, Chevron
, Pfizer
, Boeing
, Telia Sonera, Schlumberger and Microsoft
.
In April 2008, Alternative Technology began offering Gemalto’s on-demand Device
Administration Service (DAS) through its network of 3,000 resellers in the United
States and Canada.
In April 2008, Envoy Data Corporation http://www.envoydata.com began offering Gemalto’s on-demand Device
Administration Service (DAS) through its network of IT security specialized VARs.
smart card technology embedded in their corporate badge to enable access to Microsoft’s own information systems.
In June 2008, Gemalto announced that Instant Badge Issuance (IBI), a solution that works directly with Microsoft Active Directory
and Identity Lifecycle Manager
(ILM) to load digital certificates directly onto the smart card.
At Microsoft’s "Heroes Happen Here" event in February 2008, Gemalto and Microsoft demonstrated the only .NET smart card technology with support built into Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
In November 2007, Gemalto made its .NET smart card, Protiva Strong Authentication Server and related Protiva credential devices, and other Windows Smart Card Framework-compatible products available for live simulation at the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center on Microsoft Corp.’s Redmond, Wash., campus.
In November 2007, Gemalto attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program.
In 2006, Gemalto organized a Microsoft-sponsored contest, SecureTheWeb, for the best new development in secure personal devices for Web services, such as smart cards and one time passwords (OTPs).
as compatible with the Citrix Access Gateway. This followed a previous announcement earlier in January 2007 that Gemalto’s .NET and Protiva solutions were recognized by Citrix Systems as compatible with its products.
In January 2007, Gemalto was named a finalist for 2006 Solution Partner of the Year by Citrix Systems.
Identity Protection (VIP) Network.
In September 2007, Gemalto’s Live Provisioning it was named by Info Security Products Guide as the double winner of Tomorrow’s Technology Today Awards 2007, in both the Mid-Size Enterprise Security and Two-Factor Solution categories.
Gemalto was named a "Hot Company" for 2007 by Info Security Products Guide.
In May 2008, Gemalto received the 2008 Tomorrow’s Technology Today Award for its Smart Enterprise Guardian (SEG), in the Personal Portable Security Devices (PPSD) category.
In 2011, Gemalto was honored as "2011 Industry Company of the Year" granted by L’Usine Nouvelle.
Managed services
Managed services is the practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibility as a strategic method for improved effective and efficient operations inclusive of Production Support and lifecycle build/maintenance activities...
. The company was formed in June 2006 by the combination of two companies Axalto
Axalto
Axalto has been a smart card manufacturer, that during its brief independent existence, with over 4,500 employees in 60 countries, was one of the world's leading providers of microprocessor cards and also a major supplier of point of sale terminals.Axalto's business covered the telecommunications,...
and Gemplus International
Gemplus International
Acquired by the Texas Pacific Group in 2000, Luxemburg-based Gemplus International SA was a provider of smart cards and related technologies, until its June 2, 2006 merger with rival Axalto; the combined entity is known as Gemalto....
. Gemalto’s 2010 revenue was €1.91 billion.
Governments, wireless operators, banks, and enterprises use Gemalto’s personal devices such as SIMs
Subscriber Identity Module
A subscriber identity module or subscriber identification module is an integrated circuit that securely stores the International Mobile Subscriber Identity and the related key used to identify and authenticate subscriber on mobile telephony devices .A SIM is held on a removable SIM card, which...
in mobile phones, smart bankcards, e-passports, identity credentials and USB tokens. In 2008, the company produced more than 1.4 billion personal security computing devices.
The company's customers include 400 mobile network operators, 300 financial institutions and more than 30 nations for identity programs like electronic passports, driver’s licenses and national identity cards.
Gemalto N.V. is a public company incorporated in the Netherlands. It is headquartered in Amsterdam, and has subsidiaries and group companies around the world. The U.S. headquarters is in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
. Globally, Gemalto has 10,000 employees, 87 sales and marketing offices; 18 production sites, 30 personalization centers, and 13 R&D centers in 45 countries.
History
In June 2006, smart card providers Axalto and Gemplus merged to become Gemalto. Axalto was a Schlumberger IPO spin-off in 2004. In April 2010, Gemalto completed the acquisition of internet banking security specialist Todos AB.Axalto and Schlumberger
SchlumbergerSchlumberger
Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs over 110,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in approximately 80 countries...
began its chip card activities in February 1979 when it licensed and marketed certain chip card technologies developed and patented by Roland Moreno, who is generally credited with the invention of the chip card.
Schlumberger developed the first telephone chip cards for France Telecom
France Télécom
France Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...
and the Swedish telecommunications operator Telia
Telia
Telia may refer to:*Telia - part of the reproductive cycle of Rusts*Telia Digital-tv - a Swedish TV platform*Telia, Nepal - a village in Nepal*TeliaSonera - a Swedish/Finnish telecom operator*Telia Challenge Waxholm - Golf tournament...
in the early 1980s. The company developed long-standing and close ties with telecommunications operators around the world and, as a result, played a role in industry-wide efforts to develop new digital mobile communication standards, particularly the GSM transmission standard (Global System for Mobile Communication). Schlumberger designed its first SIM
Subscriber Identity Module
A subscriber identity module or subscriber identification module is an integrated circuit that securely stores the International Mobile Subscriber Identity and the related key used to identify and authenticate subscriber on mobile telephony devices .A SIM is held on a removable SIM card, which...
(Subscriber Identity Module) card in the early 1990s for the launch of GSM in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, and this led to the use of microprocessor card technology as an access and security solution for mobile telephony worldwide, in 3 billion handsets today.
In the early 1980s, the French banking sector decided to migrate from the magnetic stripe card-based payment system to a more modern and secure microprocessor card-based system. Schlumberger received its first contract in June 1981 to provide GIE Cartes Bancaires, the French credit/debit card issuers’ association, with 5,000 microprocessor cards and 200 associated POS terminals. The microprocessor card-based payment system subsequently became standard in France and eventually led to a global standard known as EMV
EMV
EMV stands for Europay, MasterCard and VISA, a global standard for inter-operation of integrated circuit cards and IC card capable point of sale terminals and automated teller machines , for authenticating credit and debit card transactions.It is a joint effort between Europay, MasterCard and...
, set up by Europay, MasterCard and Visa. Today there are over 1 billion EMV cards in circulation
Schlumberger experienced strong internal and external growth since the launch of its chip card operations in the early 1980s through the 1990s and 2000s, both in terms of revenue and product portfolio, particularly with the substantial growth in GSM-based mobile telecommunications. Significant acquisitions of regional companies in card production and personalization included Cowells (United Kingdom), Malco (United States), Printer (Mexico) and Cardtech (Brazil). The acquisition of Solaic in 1996 and Bull-CP8 from Bull in 2001 allowed the company to strengthen its presence in the banking services in France and China.
In 2003, Schlumberger created Axalto as a division to consolidate into one company all of its card and POS terminal activities, which until then had been managed by several subsidiaries and joint ventures of the Schlumberger group. Subsequently Axalto
was successfully listed on the Euronext
Euronext
Euronext N.V. is a pan-European stock exchange based in Amsterdam and with subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom. In addition to equities and derivatives markets, the Euronext group provides clearing and information services...
Paris market on May 18, 2004.
Gemplus
Founded by Marc Lassus (among others), Gemplus started its operations in 1988 as a supplier of prepaid phonecards. Because of its presence in the market of the prepaid phonecards during the 1990s, the company developed ties with the telecommunications industry along with Schlumberger.Prior to 1999, the business was conducted through Gemplus S.C.A., a French limited partnership. In December 1999, Gemplus Associates, the general partner of Gemplus S.C.A., merged into Gemplus S.C.A., which became a joint stock company, Gemplus SA. In February 2000, the corporate structure was reorganized and a new holding company, Gemplus International SA, a Luxembourg corporation, was created. Texas Pacific Group became a shareholder of Gemplus at the time of its equity contribution in February 2000.
In December 2000, the company completed an initial public offering of its capital stock, in the form of ordinary shares traded on the Eurolist of Euronext Paris, and ADSs traded on the U.S. NASDAQ exchange. In 2004, the company completed the planned reorganization of its corporate structure by transferring most of the subsidiaries of Gemplus SA to Gemplus International SA.
In April 2005, Gemplus acquired Setec OY, a company headquartered in Finland that, among other things, supplies conventional and electronic travel passports to various government agencies and products involving secure printing.
Merger and Digital Security Vision
In June 2006, smart card providers Axalto and Gemplus merged to become Gemalto. Gemalto Chairman Alex Mandl said of the merger, "Thanks to this merger, we have assembled the skills and the scale to fully serve three important markets: mobile telecom, secure transactions and security."With the merger, the two former smart card companies set out to achieve a new, broader vision for Gemalto—to be the world’s leading digital security company. Gemalto CEO Olivier Piou explained the term "digital security" and Gemalto’s vision in a 2008 interview:
"Digital security has a key role to play in the ‘digital revolution’– a major trend already bringing huge benefits to developed countries, and being enthusiastically adopted by emerging nations. Yet fear of fraud, identity theft and other concerns are holding people back from making the most of these opportunities. They need to feel that the wealth of devices and services on offer are both convenient to use and trustworthy. So convenience and trust are at the core of our vision of digital security. Developments in all our key markets show how well received they are… We are continuously expanding the possibilities of secure digital technology with new services and new products, and winning meaningful contracts in all segments and geographies."
Corporate Structure
Since 2006, Gemalto comprises three market-focused global divisions—TelecommunicationTelecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
s, Secure Transactions and Security
Security
Security is the degree of protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime. Security as a form of protection are structures and processes that provide or improve security as a condition. The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies in the OSSTMM 3 defines security as "a form of protection...
, as well as functional organizations for marketing; operations including both production and research and development; finance; human resources and legal.
Telecommunications
Gemalto provides software solutions, Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs)and managed services to more than 700 million subscribers in the telecommunications market. Gemalto has more than 400 mobile telecom operator customers worldwideIn 2007, Gemalto organized the telecom business into four strategic lines: secure operated services, advanced products and data services, value-added products and service deployment, and SIM
Subscriber Identity Module
A subscriber identity module or subscriber identification module is an integrated circuit that securely stores the International Mobile Subscriber Identity and the related key used to identify and authenticate subscriber on mobile telephony devices .A SIM is held on a removable SIM card, which...
cards.
Innovation and new markets are an important focus of the company. In October, Gemalto won the 2007 Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, Inc. is an American firm which provides market research & analysis, growth strategy consulting and corporate training services. Its headquarters are located in San Antonio, Texas, with offices in over 20 countries across the world....
Product Innovation Award in the field of mobile contactless technologies for its Smart Card Web Server (SCWS).
Each year since 2000, Gemalto has organized the SIMagine contest, the Worldwide Mobile Communication & Java Card Developers Contest, aimed at stimulating innovations using SIM-based solutions. Sponsors include Samsung Semiconductor Europe and Sun Microsystems.
Near Field Communications (NFC) and Mobile Payment
On October 30, 2008, RBC, Visa and Rogers WirelessRogers Wireless
Rogers Wireless is a wireless telecommunications provider offering mobile phone and data services throughout Canada using Global System for Mobile Communications and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System technology. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rogers Communications...
jointly announced that they are working together on the next phase of the mobile phone payment pilot, testing secure over-the-air (OTA) delivery of mobile payment software and credit card information to a customer's mobile phone. The companies announced that Gemalto would provide this capability by acting as the Trusted Service Manager and securely bridging banking with mobile phones. Gemalto’s role is to manage the transfer of credit card information from RBC to the secure SIM card in the Rogers Wireless NFC-enabled mobile phone.
Gemalto has played the TSM role in several other NFC
NFC
NFC may refer to:* Nagacorp FC, a Cambodian sporting club* National Finance Center, a division of the United States Department of Agriculture* National Football Conference, a constituent conference of the National Football League...
pilots around the world including France and Taiwan. In November 2007, Gemalto partnered with Taiwan’s Far EasTone Telecommunications Ltd. to start Asia’s first mobile contactless SIM-based NFC trial, as part of the GSM Association’s 'Pay-Buy Mobile' initiative.
Combination SIM/DVD
In September 2008, Gemalto began providing Italian mobile operator WIND with its Smart Video Card, which embeds a DVD-compliant optical disc into the card body of a regular SIM card. Smart Video Card can store any digital content including video, software or Internet links and can be played on any DVD drive.Mobile Signatures
In November 2008, TurkcellTurkcell
Turkcell is the leading mobile phone operator of Turkey, based in Istanbul. The company has 34.1 million subscribers as of June 30th, 2011.- Company background :...
, a mobile operator in Turkey, began using Gemalto’s SIM-based mobile signature solution. The solution allows the 30 million Turkcell subscribers to access services that require strong authentication, such as internet banking or e-government applications, while using their mobile phones to generate a legally binding electronic signature.
Deploying 3G services
China MobileChina Mobile
China Mobile Limited is a Chinese state-owned telecommunication company that provides mobile voice and multimedia services through its nationwide mobile telecommunications network, the largest of its kind in the world...
chose Gemalto, in February 2008, to provide SIM cards for the first large-scale multimedia SIM commercial deployment in Asia. The project is taking place in Guangdong, Shanxi, Beijing, Jiangsu and Shanghai provinces.
Mobile TV
In September 2008, Gemalto began work with the Open Mobile AllianceOpen Mobile Alliance
The Open Mobile Alliance is a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile phone industry.- Principles :Mission: To provide interoperable service enablers working across countries, operators and mobile terminals....
Smart Card Profile compliant mobile TV consumer trial in Singapore, providing mobile TV SIM cards and viewership measurement services.
Secure Transactions
Gemalto supplies contact and contactless cards, EMV chip cards, payment terminals, and user authentication solutions for secure online banking.According to the Nilson Report (November 2007), Gemalto is a world leader in technologies and services for securing transactions, with 15% market share in payment cards.
Gemalto delivered 230 million microprocessor
Microprocessor
A microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit on a single integrated circuit, or at most a few integrated circuits. It is a multipurpose, programmable device that accepts digital data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory, and...
cards for secure transactions in 2007.
According to the Nilson report, Gemalto is the number one provider of chip cards, selling 1.5 billion chip cards, representing 49 percent of the market. At the start of 2010 in Germany 20 million ATM cards and 3.5 million credit cards are hit by an end-of-the-decade programming glitch which prevented them working.
Gemalto’s customers include 300 of the world’s banks.
Gemalto worldwide banking and retail customers include Abbey U.K, ABN- AMRO Netherlands, Atkia, Finland, American Express
American Express
American Express Company or AmEx, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best...
, Banque Accord France, Accord Italia Italia Caisse d'Epargne France, La Caixa Spain, Crédit Agricolel (France), Diners Club Croatia, Findomestic Italy, Fortis Belgium. Hansabank Estonia, HBOS UK, HSBC UK, ING Belgium, JCB, National Bank of Greece, OpBank, Parex Bank (Latvia), Sampo (Finland), Société Générale
Société Générale
Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...
, Agip France, Arena Netherlands, BMW, B.P., Esso, Sodexho
Sodexho
Sodexo is a French multinational corporation headquartered in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Sodexo is one of the largest food services and facilities management companies in the world, with 380,000 employees, representing 130 nationalities, present on 34,000 sites in 80 countries...
, and Total France.
EMV in Turkey
In September 2008, Garanti BankGaranti Bank
Garanti Bank is the second largest-private bank in Turkey with US$90 billion in assets as of December 31, 2010. On November 2nd, 2010 BBVA , Spain's second largest bank, acquired 24.9% stake in Garanti Bank for $5.8 billion. Garanti provides retail, commercial, corporate and private banking...
in Turkey began rolling out 300,000 Gemalto EMV contactless bankcards.
Instant Issuance
As of November 2008, Gemalto’s Instant Issuance solution has been installed in over 300 shopping malls worldwide, enabling one million credit cards to be issued on-the-spot per year.CardLikeMe
In July 2008, Gemalto began providing its CardLikeMe service to PlasticNow in Canada, giving consumers the ability to customize their card with the photo of their choice.eBanking and eCommerce Security
Following its acquisition of Swedish security firm Todos AB in April 2008, Gemalto eBanking provides a range of eBankingOnline banking
Online banking allows customers to conduct financial transactions on a secure website operated by their retail or virtual bank, credit union or building society.-Features:...
and eCommerce
Electronic commerce
Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. However, the term may refer to more than just buying and selling products online...
security solutions under the Ezio brand name. The Ezio Suite includes:
- The Ezio Server that supports multiple authentication techniques, including two-factor authenticationTwo-factor authenticationTwo-factor authentication is an approach to authentication which requires the presentation of two different kinds of evidence that someone is who they say they are. It is a part of the broader family of multi-factor authentication, which is a defense in depth approach to security...
, one-time passwordsOne-time passwordA one-time password is a password that is valid for only one login session or transaction. OTPs avoid a number of shortcomings that are associated with traditional passwords. The most important shortcoming that is addressed by OTPs is that, in contrast to static passwords, they are not vulnerable...
, challenge-response, dynamic signatures and sign-what-you-see. - Authentication devices including smart card readers and tokens
- Mobile phone authentication using SIM, apps or SMS
Gemalto eBanking supports the Ezio Suite with a range of services including implementation, security audit, design and consulting, training, fulfilment and support.
Ezio technology is in use in banks such as ABN AMRO
ABN AMRO
ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch state-owned bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break up of ABN AMRO Group by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander and Fortis...
, Barclays and Nordea
Nordea
Nordea Bank AB is a Stockholm-based financial services group operating in Northern Europe. The bank is the result of the successive mergers and acquisitions of the Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian banks of Nordbanken, Merita Bank, Unibank and Kreditkassen that took place between 1997 and 2000...
.
Barclays
As of July 2008, more than one million Barclays customers are using Gemalto’s cryptographic smart card reader, called PINsentry by Barclays for strong authentication for online banking.Underbanked
In June 2007, The Financial Information Network & Operations Ltd. (FINO) in India began deploying Gemalto smart cards with biometric authentication. to enable microbanking and the underbanked population in rural India.Security, Public Sector (e-Government)
Gemalto provides technology to governments in more than 30 nations.e-Passports
Gemalto supplies electronic passportsBiometric passport
A biometric passport, also known as an e-passport or ePassport, is a combined paper and electronic passport that contains biometric information that can be used to authenticate the identity of travelers...
(e-passports) solutions to the United States, Singapore, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, India, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Qatar, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and Turkey.
As of March 2007, Gemalto has provided technology to more than 10 million e-passports, earning the company recognition from Keesing Journal of Documents and Identity as the number one provider of e-passport solutions with an estimated 30 percent market share.
In the United States, Gemalto is one of just two vendors picked by the Government Printing Office to supply their e-passport program and delivered significant quantities in 2007.
e-Driver’s Licenses
Mexico’s licensing authority (ICV) used Gemalto’s smart card platform to issue the first e-driver’s licenses to the to the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico in 2007. Gemalto expects to deliver more than 900,000 licenses to ICV over a three-year period. Gemalto secured a new contract to supply electronic card driver’s license to three additional Mexican states in April 2008.In December 2007, Gemalto began supplying Sweden with e-driver’s licenses that contain a transparent window in the pure polycarbonate structure for enhanced physical security. Gemalto will supply Sweden with 600,000 e-driver’s licenses per year for three years.
e-ID Citizen Cards
In February 2007, the Portuguese Mint and National Printing Office (INCM) picked Gemalto to provide their national e-ID Citizen Card. Gemalto provides the operating system, the personalization system and applications, the middleware and associated helpdesk services. All Portuguese citizens will ultimately carry these cards as their national ID document.e-Healthcare Cards
In September 2007, Gemalto delivered its 100 millionth e-healthcare card. Gemalto has delivered e-healthcare cards in Algeria, Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany Mexico, Puerto Rico, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.In July, Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK), a Germany health insurer, also picked Gemalto to supply and personalize 35 million e-health insurance cards. The cards contain emergency data such as blood group, allergy alerts and ongoing treatments, and e-prescriptions.
e-Government ID
As of December of 2009, Gemalto has provided 25 million Common Access CardCommon Access Card
The Common Access Card is a United States Department of Defense smart card issued as standard identification for active-duty military personnel, reserve personnel, civilian employees, other non-DoD government employees, state employees of the National Guard, and eligible contractor personnel.The...
s to the U.S. Department of Defense
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
for employee and contractor use.
Transportation
Gemalto has provided contactless payment technology to transport projects around the world, including a nationwide project in the Netherlands and citywide projects in Boston, Paris, London, São Paulo and Santiago.Gemalto has delivered more than 100 million transit cards globally.
Security, Enterprise
Gemalto supplies its enterprise solutions through Value-Added Resellers (VARs) and systems integrators. The company’s enterprise customers include Barclays, ShellRoyal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...
, Chevron
Chevron Corporation
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation headquartered in San Ramon, California, United States and active in more than 180 countries. It is engaged in every aspect of the oil, gas, and geothermal energy industries, including exploration and production; refining,...
, Pfizer
Pfizer
Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...
, Boeing
Boeing
The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
, Telia Sonera, Schlumberger and Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
.
In April 2008, Alternative Technology began offering Gemalto’s on-demand Device
Administration Service (DAS) through its network of 3,000 resellers in the United
States and Canada.
In April 2008, Envoy Data Corporation http://www.envoydata.com began offering Gemalto’s on-demand Device
Administration Service (DAS) through its network of IT security specialized VARs.
Virchow Krause
In July 2008, Gemalto began deploying Protiva .NET Dual tokens at Virchow Krause & Company LLP (VK), the 15th largest accounting firm in the United States.Microsoft Partnership
Microsoft employees worldwide use Gemalto .NET.NET Framework
The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...
smart card technology embedded in their corporate badge to enable access to Microsoft’s own information systems.
In June 2008, Gemalto announced that Instant Badge Issuance (IBI), a solution that works directly with Microsoft Active Directory
Active Directory
Active Directory is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems. Server computers on which Active Directory is running are called domain controllers....
and Identity Lifecycle Manager
Identity Lifecycle Manager
Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager is a state-based identity management software product, designed to manage users' digital identities, credentials and groupings throughout the lifecycle of their membership of an enterprise computer system...
(ILM) to load digital certificates directly onto the smart card.
At Microsoft’s "Heroes Happen Here" event in February 2008, Gemalto and Microsoft demonstrated the only .NET smart card technology with support built into Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
In November 2007, Gemalto made its .NET smart card, Protiva Strong Authentication Server and related Protiva credential devices, and other Windows Smart Card Framework-compatible products available for live simulation at the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center on Microsoft Corp.’s Redmond, Wash., campus.
In November 2007, Gemalto attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program.
In 2006, Gemalto organized a Microsoft-sponsored contest, SecureTheWeb, for the best new development in secure personal devices for Web services, such as smart cards and one time passwords (OTPs).
Citrix Systems Partnership
In December 2007, Gemalto announced that its Protiva platform were recognized by Citrix SystemsCitrix Systems
Citrix Systems, Inc. is a multinational corporation founded in 1989, that provides server and desktop virtualization, networking, software-as-a-service , and cloud computing technologies, including Xen open source products....
as compatible with the Citrix Access Gateway. This followed a previous announcement earlier in January 2007 that Gemalto’s .NET and Protiva solutions were recognized by Citrix Systems as compatible with its products.
In January 2007, Gemalto was named a finalist for 2006 Solution Partner of the Year by Citrix Systems.
Verisign
In February 2007, Gemalto announced that its Network Identity Manager (NIM) for online security would support the VeriSignVeriSign
Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Dulles, Virginia that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code...
Identity Protection (VIP) Network.
Awards for Enterprise Products
In September 2008, Gemalto’s Smart Enterprise Guardian (SEG) was named the "Best Personal Portable Security Device" by Network Products Guide.In September 2007, Gemalto’s Live Provisioning it was named by Info Security Products Guide as the double winner of Tomorrow’s Technology Today Awards 2007, in both the Mid-Size Enterprise Security and Two-Factor Solution categories.
Gemalto was named a "Hot Company" for 2007 by Info Security Products Guide.
In May 2008, Gemalto received the 2008 Tomorrow’s Technology Today Award for its Smart Enterprise Guardian (SEG), in the Personal Portable Security Devices (PPSD) category.
In 2011, Gemalto was honored as "2011 Industry Company of the Year" granted by L’Usine Nouvelle.
Corporate officers
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Alex Mandl | Chairman (Non-Executive) |
| Olivier Piou | Chief Executive Officer |
| Jacques Tierny | Chief Financial Officer |
| Philippe Vallée | EVP, Telecommunications |
| Philippe Cambriel | EVP, Secure Transactions |
| Jacques Seneca | EVP, Security |
| Jean-Pierre Charlet | General Counsel |
| Paul Beverly | EVP, Marketing and North America |
| Martin McCourt | EVP, Strategy, M&A |
| Philippe Cabanettes | EVP, Human Resources |
| Christophe Pagezy | EVP, Corporate Projects |
| Claude Dahan | EVP, Operations |