10-29-2009 - ACI Worldwide Announces Alliance with Bell ID to Provide Smart Card Solutions

Today, Bell ID and ACI Worldwide, a leading provider of electronic payments software and solutions, have announced an agreement for ACI to sell Bell ID's solutions for smart card management to financial markets around the world.

09-24-2008 - Secure Services Corp. Announces Breakthrough in Smart Card and Biometric Authentication Technology

SHAPE Card™ Biometric Match-on-Card Using MULTOS OS
Fast Fact: SSC’s SHAPE Card™ is a smart card using both Match-on-Card biometric fingerprint verification and the MULTOS™ operating system.
Fast Fact: Smart card technology enhances both control and privacy while allowing for secure information access and data mobility.

Downer Grove, Illinois, September 24, 2008–Secure Services Corporation (SSC) announced they have developed the SHAPE Card™, a smart card employing biometric Match-on-Card (MOC) algorithms and using the MULTOS operating system. The SHAPE Card uses MULTOS, recognized for being the most robust and reliable secure smart card platform in the world. The addition of the biometric Match-on-Card verifies the user's identity, adding to the overall security of the smart card and any applications linked to the card. "We believe that we have one of the only–if not the only–smart cards using both the MULTOS operating system and employing Match-on-Card technology," said Lester H. Keepper Jr., SSC's Chairman and CEO. "And, we know that our SHAPE Card solution is so economical that it allows this advanced technology to be dispersed widely wherever security and privacy are concerns."

09-02-2008 - Gemalto acquires MULTOS business from Keycorp

Gemalto acquires Multos business from Keycorp

Amsterdam, September 2nd, 2008 - Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 - GTO), the world leader in digital security, today confirmed that it has completed the acquisition of Keycorp’s smart card business, the leading fabless provider of MULTOS™ products and services to the Financial Services and Government sectors, and of Multos Ltd, the company that operates the remote activation service and high-security facility that is at the center of the MULTOS security architecture. Gemalto is paying 25.7 million Australian dollars (approximately 15 million Euros, or 22 million US dollars) for Keycorp’s smartcard business assets, IP portfolio, trademarks and Multos Ltd.