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Fime opens office, test lab in Shenzhen, China

December 21, 2017

Fime has expanded with the opening of a new office and test laboratory in Shenzhen, China. The new office will support the specific needs of local terminal vendors, system integrators, service providers and operators with consulting, testing and certification services.

According to a press release, the company is working already with customers on the development of advanced digital payments products and services using solutions for cloud-based, embedded universal integrated circuit card and machine-to-machine technologies.

"Fime has been working with Chinese vendors for a number of years and with the demand for our support growing rapidly, it is the right time to give customers even easier access to our international services," Fime CEO Lionel Grosclaude said in the release. "Digital payment and secure identity technologies have developed significantly in China over the last 10 years, and the market is set to grow and diversify." 

The company's experts are now more accessible to local vendors, offering on-the-ground support in the local language, the release said.

"More and more of the world's technological and business model innovations are happening here in China," said Leo Jiang, Fime country manager for China. "We are now right where we need to be to help our customers and partners to improve and expand their own schemes, while aligning with international standards to increase their global presence."