Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

Turkish bank places additional order for OTI readers

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

On Track Innovations Ltd., a provider of contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions, announced that Yapi Kredi of Turkey has placed an additional order to expand its MasterCard PayPass contactless payment program, bringing the total number of readers to be delivered to Yapi Kredi this year to 2,500 of OTI’s Saturn 6000 contactless readers. Yapi Kredi is a privately-owned bank in Turkey.

OTI’s Saturn 6000 reader is available in multiple colors with a large LCD display that enables configurable images, and programmable lines of characters in multiple languages. The reader can be placed on a countertop, be wall-mounted or lie flat. The Saturn 6000 reader supports major financial contactless programs including ISO 14443 Payment Implementation, MasterCard PayPass Mag Stripe and M/Chip (EMV), Visa PayWave MSD and qVSDC (EMV), American Express ExpressPay, Discover Zip, MIFARE, NFC and other proprietary systems. [end] 

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