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Date Posted: 10:30:01 02/11/03 Tue
Author: NOVEMBER 29 2002HONG KONG’S SMART IDENTITY CARD SYSTEM (SMARTICS) AND ACI//Santander Central HispanoID
Subject: CAPRI-ASK/TESCO-Retail Logic-jvIntellect/ The AMC Entertainment Card-Comdata

NOVEMBER 29 2002
THE ISLE OF CAPRI GETS PAPER SMARTCARDS
ASK has shipped more than 2.5 million C.ticket® contactless smart cards for use in a transportation ticketing system on the island of Capri in Italy. The system, called UnicoCapri, works with busses and the inclined railway everywhere on the island. “Capri attracts more than seven million visitors a year, and that made temporary fare cards essential to UnicoCapri,” said Bruno Moreau, deputy general manager of ASK. “Our C.tickets provide a unique solution for temporary fare cards, because they deliver the benefits of contactless fare technology in a cost effective and environmentally friendly paper card.”With as many as 15,000 visitors a day during the summer, fast throughput is one of the main reasons the three transport companies operating on the island wanted the ASK technology. The user-friendly contactless fare cards enable passengers to enter the railway or the busses with a single “swipe and go” gesture. Tickets are authenticated within 0.1 seconds, so that 100 passengers can board the busses or inclined railway in two minutes. Within this small time, the system performs a complete and secure transaction including reading the card, checking it against the black list of lost-stolen cards, processing and updating the card data and displaying the outcome of the fare validation through an LED and an acoustic signal.The ASK technology allows customers to choose from a full range of interoperable cards depending on their needs, and in this case two contactless smart cards from the ASK product family are used. The paper-based C.ticket is used for the UnicoCapri cards, providing tourists with single trip, hourly or daily tickets and featuring ten different artworks that are collectable as souvenirs of Capri. For regular commuters among the 13,100 island inhabitants, ASK’s GTML dual interface microprocessor cards are used to supply a more flexible and fully featured ticketing medium. It is reloadable with several season tickets and up to four different travel zone fare contracts on the same card. The cards include post-printing personalization with a photo of the cardholder and a unique identifying traveller code. ASK shipped 8,500 GTML cards for this system in 2002.The three transport operators on the island, SIPPIC Funicolare di Capri, SIPPIC Trasporti and STAIANO Autotrasporti, worked with ASK and the system integrators ASCOM Italia and ASCOM MONETEL to complete the automated fare collection system. This project integrates into a framework designed to deliver a fully interoperable system across the region, including a similar system already launched in Naples that also uses ASK dual interface smart cards.Capri Island is located south of Naples, Italy and is considered one of the most romantic places in the world. Its mythical blue cave attracts millions of people from around the world per year.

SMART TESCO
Tesco will implement Retail Logic's Smart-Switch technology throughout its UK stores. Smart-Switch is the world's first EMV Level 2 accredited chip and PIN software solution for integrated EPoS (Electronic Point of Sale) equipment. Tesco is currently piloting Smart-Switch in its Hertfordshire stores and, on successful completion of the pilot, plans to deploy it in all of its 730 UK stores. As liability for most cases of fraud is due to shift from card issuers at the end of 2004, Smart-Solution is a complete EFT solution that integrates easily into existing systems. Nick Mourant, divisional director of treasury at Tesco, says: “This innovative new technology will improve credit card security for our customers and allow us to continue to deliver great customer service. It will also speed-up the payment process. By utilising Smart Switch, Tesco is ‘future proofing’ its payment card processing systems. We continue to lead the field with the adoption of this new technology.”

SMART BIOSCOPES
The US based cinema and theatre operator, AMC, has launched a stored value electronic cash card to replace its paper gift certificates. The AMC Entertainment Card will be supplied by Stored Value Systems, a provider of electronic gift certificate and card-based transaction programmes and a wholly owned subsidiary of Comdata Corporation, a US based transaction and information services provider. AMC also plans to make the cards available at more than 1,400 supermarkets throughout the US and will announce additional retail partners in the coming months.

HONG KONG’S SMART IDENTITY CARD SYSTEM (SMARTICS) AND ACI
ACI Worldwide announced that its ACI Smart Chip Manager has been selected for use in the Hong Kong smart identity card system (SMARTICS). ACI's Smart Chip Manager is an integrated software application that controls the lifecycle of smart cards and the applications that reside on them, including issuance and post-application loads in the field. The software has been architected to address all generally accepted industry standards, and it has the flexibility to respond to emerging and future requirements.

SPANISH BANK ENABLING TERTIARY STUDENTS SMARTLY
Among the strategies Santander Central Hispano has employed to join the ranks of the world’s top retail banks is to provide financial services and, in some cases, ID cards to 550 universities in its home country of Spain, as well as in Portugal and Latin America, where it is a major banking player. Increasingly, Santander Central Hispano (SCH) is converting the ID card programmes to smart cards as it seeks to burnish its image as a technology leader. The bank already provides more than 600.000 chip card ID’s to 133 schools, including 452,000 smart cards to 30 Spanish universities. The bank has orders for another 1.5 million smart cards, and hopes to have issued more than 2.3 million cards to university students, professors and staff by early 2003, says Vincente Prior, the bank’s director of university smart cards.

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