Cartes Bancaires picks Gemalto to ease member banks’ NFC mobile payments offer

Groupement des Cartes Bancaires (GIE CB), the French bank card association which pioneered the use of chip cards for payments in the 1980s, has selected Pure, Gemalto’s white label mobile wallet solution, to enable its member banks to more quickly deploy their own NFC mobile and in-app payment services by bypassing one-to-one negotiations with international payment schemes. Until now, French banks have been using specifications provided by international schemes to implement their mobile NFC payment apps, simply because only international schemes had such specifications available for them,” Xavier Larduinat, financial services specialist at Gemalto, told NFC World.