Smart Cards: Mondex Fully Accredits Gemplus Chip Cards

Gemplus Corp. said it has received full accreditation from Mondex International for chip card production and customization.

The company said its Shakopee, Minn., production facility will adhere to the strict accreditation requirements for loading applications and programs onto smart card chips, activating the cards' operating systems, and providing the customized imprinting and encoding of customer names and account information.

Gemplus previously had provisional accreditation and was delivering cards to Chase Manhattan Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, and Credomatic of Costa Rica, the Mondex licensee for Central America.

The Shakopee facility has the capacity to perform application loading on 600,000 cards a month.

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