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Discover grants D-PAS certification to Oberthur EMV platform

Certification clears the Cosmo RSA v5 platform for use throughout the Discover Global Network, which includes Discover, Diners Club International, Pulse, and network relationships.

September 16, 2014

Discover Financial Solutions has granted D-PAS certification to the Cosmo RSA v5 platform from Oberthur Technologies, a provider of digital security solutions. D-PAS is the name of the EMV implementation of Discover Financial Services, a member of EMVco.

According to a news release from Oberthur Technologies, certification clears its platform for use throughout the Discover Global Network, which includes Discover, Diners Club International, Pulse, and network relationships.

The new Oberthur D-PAS product was developed on the company's Cosmo RSA v5 platform, which is compliant with Global Platform and Javacard specifications and capable of supporting dynamic data authentication. The platform is also certified by all international schemes of EMVco members and by numerous domestic payment networks.

"The OT Cosmo RSA v5 D-PAS, which meets the global security standard to eliminate fraud, will help increase protection for card members throughout the Discover Global Network with an increased protection against counterfeiting, identity theft, skimming and other card-present fraud," said Eric Duforest, payment business unit managing director at Oberthur Technologies. "We applaud Discover for prioritizing global EMV deployment through its streamlined D-PAS certification and we are happy to enable secure chip card payments."

According to the release, Oberthur Technologies has assisted more than 250 banks through migration to EMV, has provided EMV cards to 80 percent of the top issuers in the U.S., and has delivered more than 1.5 billion EMV cards worldwide.