‘Securing E-transactions in East Africa’
Leading Card Processor and electronic payment solutions
provider, Paynet Group, has announced that it is set to unveil a new chip and
PIN Card-issuing facility in East Africa by early November this year and not in
2013 as expected.
Speaking at a meeting with bankers, Paynet Group CEO Bernard
Matthewman said that the Paynet Processing Centre will be able to serve
multiple banks within the region at a low cost per card, and will additionally
be able to support programs by individual banks that may opt for moving their
customers to EMV Chip in phases.
The new technology, which uses sophisticated processing to
identify genuine cards, will boost bank’s antifraud measures by making
counterfeiting more difficult and expensive.
Paynet Group currently offers its card processing services
for various banks in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda. The Visa and
MasterCard EMV Chip upgrade will be for pre-paid, debit and credit cards as
well as feature enhanced online fraud monitoring and 3D secure services.
The group, which was established in the country back in 2003,
boasts of three top East Africa Brands, Paynet Kenya, Electronic Financial Technologies
(EFT) Kenya, and PesaPoint Ltd. Through its electronic based products and
services the company has continued to provide innovative e-business solutions
in the region.
About EMV®
EMV® is named after three companies, Europay, MasterCard, and
Visa that in 1994 initiated development
of the EMV specifications.
The global standards, which
has dominantly been adopted in Europe and other industrialized countries, has
recorded over 1.5 billion EMV compliant chip-based payment cards in use
worldwide as of the fourth quarter of 2011.
The chip-based payment cards, better known as smart cards contain
an embedded microprocessor, a type of small computer. The microprocessor chip
contains the information needed to use the card for payment, and is protected
by various robust security features (supports both PIN and Signature form
verification).
Chip cards are a more secure alternative to traditional
magnetic-stripe payment cards.
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