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System-on-Chip Solutions for Finance

Fully-featured flexibility from a trusted source


STMicroelectronics is a world leader in the development and delivery of chip products and solutions for the banking sector. These range from smartcard chips to the integration of proven smartcard system components that can be easily integrated into banks' existing card infrastructure.

Proven and trusted technology from ST.

ST actively participates in major, national scale, smartcard rollouts all over the world. Smartcard technologies such as the Prisma platform or the Proton purse have been implemented in many of our partners' products and adopted by banks and financial institutions across the world, including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland.

ST developed custom solutions for the EMV™ migration programs of several countries: Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Spain and Italy.

From consulting to system integration.


No other company has smartcard experience which rivals ST’s. With smartcard projects worldwide, ST has developed solutions of all types and gained massive experience in large-scale smartcard deployment in EMV, e-purse, Internet, pay-TV, retail and other sectors. In such projects, our involvement has covered the full project cycle, from strategic decision, through definition of the optimal business model, to technical implementation and integration. The range of skills acquired during these projects is unique in the smartcard industry.

 
System-on-Chip solutions based upon global standards

ST is committed to the promotion and support of open industry standards for banking applications and includes them in its products:

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ISO standards: ISO 7816 and ISO 14443
bullet EMV applications: EMV2000, VSDC, M/Chip4 standard and domestic versions (Credit Card, ABI)
bullet Purse applications: CEPS standard and domestic purses (Proton, TIBC, Moneo etc.)
bullet PKI applications: PKCS etc.
bullet Personalization and card management: Common perso, Global Platform and Prisma
 
3 Platforms

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PRISMA

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EMV CPS

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ADVANTIS

 
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