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The provisioning server chips

The chip initialization server manages software modules that implement various chip initialization applications for various types of cards, and also provides interaction between these modules and software modules running in the card personalization device.The server provides management of an arbitrary number of personalized devices with an arbitrary number of chip initialization stations in each device. The server supports establishing a connection with the library of the chip initialization application, and receives the ID of the type of...

Personalization of EMV specification microprocessor cards

General approach and industrial solution this section deals with the issues of personalization primarily of microprocessor Bank cards of international payment systems, although the described approaches and software solutions can easily be extended (which we have already done in a number of cases) not only to cards of various local payment systems, but also to identification cards with a chip (for example, driver’s licenses, party tickets, insurance policies), SIM cards for mobile phones, transport and petrol cards, etc. Background...

Stages of development of the EMV standard

New technologies and standards New technologies significantly change the construction of the banking and payment system. One of the most significant achievements was a card with a built-in microprocessor-a smart card (or chip card). Microprocessor technology allows you to provide a reliable mechanism for paying for goods and services through various information communication channels in a virtual environment. The smart card can also be used as a unified identification tool for accessing the account through a virtual environment for performing...

Payment system structure

For operational and efficient management, Visa is divided into 6 regional divisions: Asia Pacific, Canada, Central and Eastern Europe, middle East and Africa (CEMEA), Europe (Visa Europe), Latin America and the Caribbean (Latin America and Caribbean), and the United States of America. Visa CEMEA is one of the most dynamically developing regions of Visa, which includes 84 countries of the world. The headquarters are located in London, and territorial offices are located in Russia, Ukraine, the Republic of South Africa and the United Arab...

Background of the EMV card standard

Electronic cash Chip cards that implement the concept of electronic cash also store the amount on the card, when writing to the card, an equal amount is debited from the account, just as it happens when issuing cash. The amount is considered to have been issued to the cardholder. The cardholder can perform payment operations at the same time, as in the case of other cards with a stored amount: the sufficiency of the amount on the card is checked, after which (if the verification result is positive) the amount on the card is reduced by the...

A subset of EMV specifications

In General, the specifications are aimed at ensuring compatibility – the most important for the practice of payment systems properties of cards correctly served at different terminals and properties of terminals correctly serve different cards. EMV specifications define a certain base on which each payment Association defines its chip products. The payment system specifications describe the basic rules for working with a product called a debit/credit chip card. This product is in the financial sense an ordinary Bank product-a card, in...

Classification of chip cards, description of the principles and technology of operation

Chip cards (or, as they are also called, cards with a chip) turned out to be more attractive for implementing offline authorization ideas. A chip card contains a chip whose properties determine the functionality of the card as a technological product (the functionality of the card as a product, for example, a Bank card, determines the corresponding rules). Chip cards are classified according to the following criteria:chip type;method of reading information;conformity to standards;application.depending on the built-in chip, chip cards are...

Development of payment cards technologies

A payment card can be viewed from various points of view: as a product offered by the Issuer to the holder (for example, as a Bank product), as a technical product of the card manufacturer, or even as a work of applied art. However, this consideration of cards from different points of view is very conditional, since all aspects of cards are closely interrelated. A card issued by a Bank could be considered as a remote access tool to the Bank account, allowing any transactions to be made on the account. This is true for most Bank cards, but...

Payment systems based on Bank cards

The General principles of functioning of the payment system The main purpose of a payment system based on payment cards is to perform payments between the service/product supplier (seller) and the consumer of the service/product (buyer) who presented the payment card for payment. However, it is important to emphasize that these payments are made in non-cash form.In addition, the payment system ensures that the cardholder receives cash both on special devices-ATMs, and in operational cash desks that provide such services.in the most General...

Banking products based on smart cards

Bank payment cards were originally created as a retail product aimed at the holder – an individual. And now all over the world, payment cards for banks are one of the most important areas of retail business. At the same time, the marketing goals of the business may be different. In the General case, depending on these purposes it is possible to distinguish three main directions of the use of payment cards:to work with the Bank’s clients – natural persons;to work with legal entities and their employees in the framework of...