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Date Posted: Monday, March 03, 03:20:49am AMERICAN EXPRESS SMART CARD FACT SHEET American Express is committed to helping customers do more. The company believes interoperable, multiple application smart cards can provide customers with added value and convenience. In an effort to determine the most appropriate products for its customers, American Express continues to work on a number of smart card initiatives with various applications and technologies, and has joined with other companies in the pursuit of global interoperability. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May, 1999 Licensees of American Express Smart Card Multi-Application Framework Announced. American Express announces the initial licensees of its patent-pending smart card multiple application framework. Licensees include Cards Etc, Continental Airlines, De La Rue, Discover Card, Europay International, HTEC, IBM, MasterCard International Microsoft Corp., Orga Card Systems, Proton World, Sun Microsystems and Tesa Entry Systems (a Williams company). American Express also announces the formation of the Interoperability Consortium, an independent and open body that will govern the multiple application framework standard. July, 1998 Proton World. American Express, Banksys, ERG and Visa International join together as shareholders in the newly created Proton World, a company formed by the spin-off of Proton smart card technology assets developed by Banksys. Proton World further develops Proton as a leading technology worldwide for electronic purse and other smart card applications. April, 1998 Licensing of MULTOS and Joining MAOSCO. American Express announces that it has signed global, non-exclusive licenses for MULTOS, a multi-application smart card operating system specification. American Express plans to expand its smart card offerings with cards that have a MULTOS operating system and provide both financial and non-financial applications, such as hotel, airline, loyalty, charge/credit and e-purse functions. American Express also joins MAOSCO, an industry-wide consortium formed to promote, develop, and implement MULTOS. November, 1997 Licensing of Smart Card Framework. American Express announces that it will license its smart card multiple application framework, developed for its smart corporate card pilots, to other companies worldwide. By making it broadly available, American Express is encouraging widespread adoption of the framework to achieve global interoperability among smart cards, particularly in the travel and entertainment industry. October, 1997 Continental Smart Card Pilot. American Express and Continental Airlines team up in a multi-application smart card pilot using American Express Smart Corporate Cards for faster airport check-in using Continental’s electronic service centers at six U.S. airports. The several thousand participating business travelers also used their smart cards to quickly and easily check in and out of eight participating U.S. Hilton Hotels. (See description of the Hilton Hotels pilot below, May 1997.) September, 1997 The Marine Corps Smart Technologies Pilot. American Express and the U.S. Marine Corps announce The Marine Corps Smart Technologies Pilot, a test of the first Government multi-application smart card with worldwide financial capabilities. Issued to approximately 2,000 Marines in Jacksonville, North Carolina, the smart card was used for weapon check-in/check-out at the armory, tracking Marines during the embarkation process, and identifying meal plans at food service locations on base. In addition, Marines could choose to use the smart card’s Proton e-purse functionality. The pilot helped the Marines achieve their travel reengineering requirements, including improving travel processes, reducing administrative errors and costs, and enhancing readiness. The pilot was completed in mid-1998. August, 1997 ERG Limited Agreement. American Express and ERG Limited of Australia sign an agreement that enables American Express to issue smart cards with Banksys’ Proton e-purse technology and to use what will become the Proton network in Australia and New Zealand. The Proton e-purse system is operated in Australia by Quicklink Card Systems Ltd., a subsidiary of ERG. May, 1997 Hilton Hotels Smart Card Pilot. American Express, Hilton Hotels and IBM provide the first multi-function smart card in the hotel industry in the U.S. cardmembers participating in the pilot could bypass the front desk and use a self-service kiosk for check-in/check-out at selected Hilton Hotels. The smart chip technology also allowed cardmembers to manage their personal profile information at the kiosk. The corporate cardmembers also used the smart card in the electronic ticketing test announced with American Airlines and IBM in October 1996 (see below). The pilot was completed in December 1998. Global ChipCard Alliance. American Express is the first financial services company to join the Global ChipCard Alliance, a group originally comprised of primarily telecommunications providers formed to achieve interoperable, multi-application smart cards. November, 1996 Smart Ship Project. American Express and the U.S. Navy announce an e-purse smart card pilot on the USS Yorktown, a U.S. naval cruiser. The smart card offered a convenient and secure method of payment on the ship. The pilot ended in June 1997. Banksys Agreement. American Express signs an agreement with Banksys for a global license of its electronic payments and electronic commerce applications. Under terms of the agreement, American Express will use Banksys’ technology, including its Proton electronic purse technology, to implement multiple smart card pilots. October, 1996 American Airlines Smart Card Pilot. American Express announces a Smart Corporate Card pilot with American Airlines and IBM that expedited the ticketing and boarding process for business travelers. The smart cards let travelers check in and receive their boarding passes at the installed American Airlines gate readers throughout the United States. The pilot was completed in December 1998. January, 1996 APACS Participation. American Express signs an agreement to participate in the conversion of credit, debit, and charge cards and point-of-sale infrastructure in the United Kingdom to chip-based technology, in conjunction with the Association for Payments and Clearing Systems (APACS). The company launched its pilots using the new chip cards in 1997. The pilots concluded in October 1998 with APACS’ decision to roll out cards in the U.K. market. This roll out is currently under way. December, 1995 Company Smart Card. American Express launches an internal smart card pilot that allowed employees to combine all of their American Express charge and credit card accounts onto a single smart card. Smart card readers in the company cafeteria also allowed employees to make purchases from a stored value account. The pilot was expanded to include security access. November, 1995 The InterOperability Group. American Express forms the ad hoc InterOperability Group to encourage the secure, economic and efficient processing of multiple chip card applications in a single card accepting device. American Express, along with MasterCard International, VeriFone, Dassault, Orga and Solaic, initially participate. Mondex International and Visa International join later. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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