Proton World Information

PROTON WORLD develops, licenses and delivers high security payment and identity smart card systems based on the market-leading Proton technology. There are Proton licensees in 35 countries: together they have so far installed over 700,000 terminals, where their 40 million cardholders perform millions of transactions each month. Building on the solid foundations of its expertise in and its extensive network throughout the banking and finance sector as provider of the world\'s most frequently-used electronic purse technology, Proton World has developed Proton Prisma, a family of products that provides an infrastructure for secure multiple-application smart card programmes (debit, credit, domestic and interoperable purse, PKI and others), that offers issuers a wide choice of certified hardware vendors, simplified mass personalisation, dynamically-downloadable applications and multi-vendor card sourcing. Proton Prisma implements international smart card standards, such as CEPS, EMV and GlobalPlatform. Proton World's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, with regional offices in the USA and Asia. Proton World is a member of the ERG Group, a global technology group, and specialist in transit and multi-application systems.