Giesecke & Devrient’s Global Head of NFC solutions, Jukka Yliuntinen speaks to C-ITV at the 2012 Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference about about G&D’s work in providing a more secure, accessible environment for advanced services running on the growing range of connected devices. We also ask why G&D have been able to develop a worldwide perspective [...]

Mass transit system operators are witnessing a paradigm shift in automated fare collection (AFC) technology. these changes include outsourcing of AFC program operations and real-time acceptance of third-party issued cards – changes that are likely to reshape the way that AFC is viewed by the industry for decades. As a result transit agencies are facing [...]

ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient today announced the creation of a joint venture dedicated to delivering a secure, accessible environment for advanced services running on the growing range of connected devices. This includes tablets, smart-TVs, games consoles and smartphones. All three companies are investing to accelerate adoption of a common security standard and create [...]

Visa Inc. and Intel Corporation have announced a strategic agreement to develop mobile commerce solutions tailored to consumers in developed and developing countries. During a press conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the companies outlined plans to collaborate to ensure consumers enjoy a consistent, streamlined, secure mobile commerce experience across Intel® AtomTM-based smartphones and [...]

Munich-based Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has been selected by Intel to deliver lifecycle management of the embedded Secure Elements within Intel’s Smartphone Reference Device. G&D will manage the partitioning and key management of the embedded Secure Elements Over-the-Air. Embedded Secure Elements provide an additional protected area for security-sensitive applications such as payments and ticketing using [...]

As readers of C-ITV and contactless Cities blogs know, Australia’s largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, is adding multiple mobile phone-based payment options to its range of mobile banking services. Munich’s Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) ha announced that it is providing the technology to allow secure contactless payments using mobile phones featuring NFC. The [...]

At CARTES 2011, Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) will be presenting a comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end solutions for ensuring the security of its customers’ digital applications. G&D’s activities at the trade show will center around the company’s NFC and Trusted Service Management (TSM) solutions, without which secure monetary applications of a mobile wallet nature, such as mobile-payment and [...]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is to manufacture and personalize the NFC-capable SIM cards for an innovative mobile payment system in Russia, in cooperation with Sitronics Smart Technologies (SST), the company’s technology partner there. The first commercial NFC project in the Russian Federation was implemented by Lukoil, Russia’s second biggest energy company, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), the [...]