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Inside Contactless has introduced its MicroPass 6000 dual-interface, EMV-compliant chip product. The France-based company designed the platform to meet the high-volume requirements of such EMV markets as Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Canada and to target U.S. issuers considering issuing dual contact and contactless cards to cardholders traveling internationally. The chip platform includes applications for credit, debit and transit. The product will be available this month, the company says. Meanwhile, Inside Contactless has signed an agreement with U.S.-based Discover Financial Services to develop Discover Zip contactless-payment devices.
Inside Contactless and Dynamic Card Solutions have also entered into a partnership to enable financial institutions to instantly issue contactless cards and mobile-payment stickers, the companies have announced. The France-based contactless-technology vendor and the U.S.-based firm that sells CardWizard software for immediate issuance of credit and debit cards will work together to provide card-personalization systems to issuers based on Inside's MicroPass 4000 contactless and MicroPass 6000 dual-interface chip cards. "Because of this partnership, banks will be able to deliver MicroPass-enabled cards, mobile-handset stickers and other new mobile-payment peripheral devices into the hands of their customers more quickly, easily and securely," Charles Walton, Inside Contactless executive vice president, said in a statement. Customers who use Dynamic Card Solutions' instant branch PIN-change or instant-issuance products for magnetic stripe or EMV payment cards can upgrade to support the vendor's contactless products, the companies say. Any market looking for added convenience and high technology likely will be attracted to the service, contends Ron Zanotti, Dynamic Card Solutions senior vice president. "It will probably be adopted and targeted for the more-adventurous youth market," he says. No banks are yet testing the product.
