The first product in the SkySIM CX family has received approval from EMVCo, American Express, MasterCard and Visa.
With this approval the SkySIM CX Multi-Application NFC SIM Card has met requirements for secure payment systems such as American Express ExpressPay, MasterCard PayPass, and Visa payWave.
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The product, developed by Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), offers a new SIM platform that allows several different NFC applications to be executed simultaneously on a single SIM card.
Axel Deininger, group senior vice president at G&D, said: "The outstanding feature of the new SIM card is not only its functionality but also its security. The card has been tested and approved by EMVCo as an integral unit, and not a single weak point has been detected. This latest addition to our NFC portfolio enables us to offer network operators a complete secure package comprising hardware, software, and services, in the form of SIM cards, a mobile wallet, and trusted service management services."
The new SIM cards have up to 1.3 megabytes of memory in the highest-capacity version, enabling them to store data for multiple applications. They also have a dedicated processor and a scalable operating system.
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