Clear2Pay’s EMV Level 1 Contactless Card Test Solution qualified by EMVCo

 

Brussels, 23 August 2011 – Clear2Pay, the international technology provider of next generation payment solutions for financial institutions, today announces that EMVCo, the EMV standards body owned by American Express, JCB,  MasterCard and Visa, has qualified its Integri EMV Contactless Card Type Approval Level 1 Test Suite, Version 1.0.4. The test tool is the only solution available on the market for the validation of conformity to the EMVCo specifications. The tool is used by accredited test laboratories.

To simplify implementations and enhance global interoperability of Contactless Cards, EMVCo defined a set of Level 1 test cases. Prior to commercial roll-out, contactless payment cards require official certification proving conformity to these EMVCo specifications. The Integri Test Solution for EMVCo Type Approval is now available as an off-the-shelf tool for the contactless card industry’s pre-certification and debugging needs. The Test Suite contains fully prepared reference test scenarios as defined by EMVCo.

Marie Costers, Head of the Test Tools Competence Centre at Clear2Pay, comments: “Contactless payments are becoming a reality and test solutions play a crucial role enabling the essential global interoperability. We feel honored being acknowledged by one of the most important standardization bodies as a reference provider for contactless test technology.”

Clear2Pay is a payments modernisation company that actively supports many global financial institutions to meet their payments unification goals through its pure SOA Open Payment Framework (OPF).  Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, the company facilitates banks and financial organisations in their provision of payments services, whether they be Card, ACH, Branch, Bulk, High Care or International payment transactions. Clear2Pay's innovative technology helps to reduce transactions processing costs, and to deliver new, compelling payment services in a competitive way. Functions embrace payments origination, reporting, linkage with back-office processing systems, clearing, netting and settlement. In addition the company offers a range of value added payment technology solutions and services such as e-Banking, the Integri Open Test Platform, ChargeBack, Strategic Consultancy and Payments Training through a dedicated Academy. Clients include global and major regional financial institutions such as ING, Banco Santander, Crédit Agricole, VISA, MasterCard, BNP Paribas, The Federal Reserve, NETS (Denmark), The People Bank of China (PBOC), Bank of East Asia, Rabobank, The Co-operative Financial Services and Commonwealth Bank. Clear2Pay operates out of Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, China, Malaysia and Singapore and currently employs over 650 staff. Recently, the company was awarded the XCelent Customer Base 2010 award for its undisputed largest payment hub customer base, both live and under implementation. For more information, please visit www.clear2pay.com