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Nexus adds EMV support to its middleware

July 29, 2003

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Middleware provider Nexus Software, Inc., has formed a strategic alliance with UK cashless payment specialist CreditCall Communications to create an EMV (Europay/Mastercard/Visa) Level 2 compliant product for Nexus' Involve family of middleware and its more than 90,000 installations worldwide.

Nexus is using the EmvX toolkit, which is based on CreditCall's CardEaseEMV certified smart card transaction processing engine, to support INvolve. Aimed primarily at payment system developers, EmvX provides a straightforward means for ATM operators to upgrade almost any existing Windows-based payment terminal to accept and process EMV cards.

"We recognized that it was important to support (the Nexus INvolve platform) in our EmvX product," said Nick McGarvey, CreditCall's managing director, in a news release. "Given that both products are based on the same Microsoft COM architecture, there was technical synergy from the outset."

Robert Usner, marketing director for Nexus, said in the release, "The INvolve family of products and EmvX compliance toolkit together provide a complete EMV-ready platform for any ATM or smart card solution."

INvolve 3.2 is available immediately to existing customers; evaluation versions are also available. EmvX is a free download from CreditCall's EMV Web site. The Trialware download includes a PCSC driver for any standard EMV Level 1 compliant card reader that supports PCSC, according to the release.