Arthur Blank Announces Partnership With INSIDE
Arthur Blank announced a partnership with INSIDE for the supply of their newly released L4 2.5G MicroPass platform. As a result of this partnership, American Banknote’s (ABNote) global network of secure card production facilities will be teamed with an industry-leading provider of advanced, open standard contactless chip technology.
“The partnership between INSIDE and ABNote will allow our global companies to be on the forefront of contactless technology and development. We believe this partnership will allow us to offer a global solution for contactless cards produced in all of our various secure card facilities. It will position us to serve our financial customer base with the very best in new contactless payment technology,” said John Ekers, VP, Technology, ABNote.
 “This demonstrates our continued commitment to advances in new technology. We are pleased to have been selected by ABNote as a partner for the provision of MicroPass contactless payments core technology and expertise," said Didier Serra, GM, North America, INSIDE. "We intend to deliver top quality products, support and services to enable ABNote to rapidly begin delivering contactless bank card products into the market. We look forward to a mutually successful 2008."
With the recent announcement of Arthur Blank’s Tennessee card production facility being certified by MasterCard and Visa, this partnership is most timely. “As we begin to enter US secure marketplace, we know that this partnership will add tremendous credibility to our offering. Offering the new MicroPass L4 2.5G platform as the basis for our contactless bank card products will give us the ability to offer a complete solution to our MasterCard, Visa and Discover customer base,” said Jake Jacobs, SVP, Sales & Business Development, Arthur Blank. For our retail customers who depend on us for gift and other prepaid cards, this will make available a full suite of secure contactless payment and gift card solutions from one company.” |
