Banques Populaires, one of France's largest banks, is now using
KAL's Kalignite EMV software in over 4,000 automated teller machines
(ATMs) in its France-wide network.
Banques Populaires have 2,000 branches and 7,000,000 customers.
Its ATMs provide a wide range of customer transactions, including
advanced operations such as mobile phone top-up. The transactions can
only be accessed using the Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV) "chip and
pin" technology, which significantly reduces card-based fraud and
promotes secure ATM transactions.
After a thorough procurement process, i-BP, the technology arm of
Banques Populaires, chose KAL's EMV technology early in 2006. It has
now been integrated and is in use across the entire ATM network.
Michel Denis, KAL's Director of Engineering said: "We are
delighted that Banques Populaires have chosen to deploy KAL's EMV
Kernel across its network. The banks take great care to offer
customers a very secure ATM service, and we believe our software helps
them achieve their aims." Francois Taveau, Director of the Self
Service Program at i-BP, said: "We are delighted with the ease and
speed with which we were able to integrate KAL's EMV technology with
our existing ATM application. Following a successful pilot, we quickly
deployed this software across 4000 ATMs in December 2006."
The Kalignite EMV Kernel is used within the i-BP private
multi-vendor software application. This solution is deployed across
ATM machines from NCR, Diebold (Opteva, 9.x, 10.x), Wincor, and
deposit machines from De La Rue / Banking Automation.