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JCB, CASSIS to collaborate on testing OTA services for NFC mobile payment

February 21, 2008

TOKYO—JCB and CASSIS International have announced an agreement to collaborate in an experiment to test NFC over-the-air services. JCB and CASSIS International will jointly demonstrate end-to-end secure contactless payment issuance services for NFC mobile phones. The demonstration will begin this April with the following services to ensure secure over-the-air registration of customer data:

Application and security life-cycle management
On-the-fly creation of security domain
Secure EMV data processing for JCB application
Load, install, block, un-block and delete application
Customer service and audit

CASSIS is providing market-proven platforms and solutions to the collaboration that will enable customers to receive JCB card application and account information securely over-the-air on their NFC enabled handset anywhere in the world.

"Secure over-the-air service is a key factor in mobile payment. One primary consideration is to select a partner that has a proven track record and can grow with our needs," said Tom Okabe, senior vice president of global infrastructure and technologies at JCB. "NFC is going to happen in many markets soon, and we need to be ready for commercial deployment when it does. CASSIS has the infrastructure and the proven solution to execute our strategies."