The dramatic growth of e-commerce and e-business has brought with it a need for the highest levels of security to surround transactions and the purchases of goods and services by service providers, network operators and consumers alike. Through an unrivalled background in security within the smartcard, GSM and banking industries, Oberthur Card Systems has been at the forefront of providing such high security within the e-arena.

With a heritage in security and banking and a reputation for technological innovation, Oberthur is at the leading edge of secure e-commerce, mobile-commerce, banking and telecoms. Its legendary past is rivalled only by its visionary future. It is pioneering tomorrow's technology today, including Java applications, e-commerce, e-business, m-commerce, m-banking, m-email and m-services as well as electronic purse systems, biometrics, multifunction and multiapplication cards.

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