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Nirph and Cardz Group Africa join forces to provide low-cost identification cards. |
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Date: Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Author: Carien Els
Nirph Digital, a biometric company has joined forces with Cardz Group Africa to provide secure, low-cost solutions for customer identification. In recognition of the rampant increase of fraud in the financial sector, Nirph has developed high security fingerprint scanners that can be retrofitted to existing ATMs to help curb card and PIN theft.
Nirph's ground-breaking operations only stand to benefit from partnering with Cardz Group Africa who acts as the preferred supplier to some of the largest card suppliers in Africa. With their huge infrastructure in Asia, they have the ability to deliver more than 4 million personalised cards per month at exceptionally affordable prices. Cardz Group ensures that their card and chip technology is state of the art. Additionally, all their production plants are certified (EMV & GSMA), to ensure that the highest security and quality requirements are met.
Partnering with Cardz Group Africa and their high security open standard smart card technology allows Nirph to issue fingerprint-secured identification cards. The two companies have already partnered on, among others, pension cards, financial transaction cards, and national health cards. Producing identification cards will be a valuable addition to this partnership, cementing its presence as an international player in biometric identification.
Mr. Paddy Janneman, one of the Directors at Cardz Group Africa, says that Nirph's unique combination of high security and open standard biometric standards can revolutionise the use of biometric identification throughout Africa. For the first time, biometric identification can become inexpensive and secure enough to be widely accepted as a customer identification token for Government agencies, banks and financial institutions. Open platform biometric verification systems will soon be rolled out to retail outlets across Africa.
Nirph and Cardz Group Africa will also be releasing their fingerprint on card verification solutions into the market in the 1st quarter of 2010. |
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