Oberthur Technologies accomplishes MasterCard CAST certification

Oberthur Technologies is delighted to announce the successful completion of MasterCard CAST certification (Compliance Assessment & Security Testing program) for its Flash memory based payment card.

 Thus, the company demonstrated that Flash-memory based payment cards can be fully compliant with global payment standards.

 Perfected Oberthur Technologies’ product provides with more flexibility to financial institutions in issuing with a reduced time to market by eliminating the "masking" phase, that is usually required to load software onto the payment card's chip during the manufacturing process.

 Flash memory let cards be securely loaded with customized applications such as debit, credit or other payment applications without having to go through the masking process