Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

Collis to Develop a Personalization Validation Tool for JCB

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

JCB has chosen Collis to develop a personalization validation tool for JCB J/Smart and J/Speedy payment platforms.

Senior Vice President of JCB, Takahiro Horikoshi says, “We are happy to announce that Collis will be developing JCB’s personalization validation test tool supporting both J/Smart contact and J/Speedy Contactless cards. With this tool, JCB card issuers and bureaus can verify personalized data easily and shorten the time to market.”


Rick Hsu, managing director of Collis Asia comments, “Collis has been in partnership with JCB for several years, during which time a number of successful joint projects have been completed. This project (personalization validation tool development) further reinforces the strong relationship between Collis and JCB.”

With full coverage of JCB personalization validation test plan and easy integration with Collis EMV PVT, JCB issuers can now ensure global interoperability and production quality, the Web site reports. [end] 

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