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Santander, MasterCard and Gemalto Achieve Largest Deployment of EMV Cards in South Ameri

More than one million contactless EMV cards deployed in a year and growing

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Gemalto announces it has deployed more than one million Optelio contactless EMV cards​ in a year for Banco Santander Brasil, through Santander Universities. These University Smart Cards (USC) are issued to universities in Brazil with agreements with Banco Santander and represent the largest deployment of its kind in South America.   The Gemalto Santander solution combines the security of EMV with the speed and convenience of contactless transactions using MasterCard PayPass™ features. It also ...

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