Why Choose CPI Card Group

As the financial industry takes a significant turn towards secured financial smart cards protected by cryptography and a global interoperable standard EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa), CPI Card Group has built its business model on the basis of offering choice to its customers.

Our experience in the market has shown that customer requirements are not all the same and at CPI Card group,  we work with a selection of chip manufacturers, software developers, RF antenna construction designers and inlay manufacturers which provides flexibility and ensures that we are able to cater for a wide variety of our customers plastic card needs.

How CPI Card Group's Model Works:

CPI Card Group acts as the product manager of every moving part to a smart card construction. CPI Card Group securely procures silicon for both Contact and Dual Interface EMV (software loaded) modules from a variety of sources.

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Carrying an inventory of EMV certified modules allows CPI Card Group to support multiple EMV profiles on competing operating systems to again meet the unique needs of their financial clients.

CPI Card Group's EMV portfolio is rich with both contact and dual interface solutions running on either Java, Multos or Native OS, supporting card types with differentiating characteristics including:

Authentication flexibility ( SDA “Static Data Authentication”/DDA “Dynamic Data Authentication”)

Usable memory availability (8k, 12k, eeprom)

Dual branding opportunity (from the same chip)

Visa/MasterCard/Discover/AMEX/JCB* certified, and level of EMV specification managed by Association compliancy

*Selected Locations