| G&D Supplies Smart Cards to 2008 Olympics |
| June 18, 2008 Category: Smart Cards |
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Major financial institutions and mobile telephony operators in China are now getting ready for the 29th Olympic Games from 8 to 24 August 2008. Giesecke & Devrient provides its card products to these companies including Bank of China, China Everbright Bank and China Mobile.
The Bank of China and the China Everbright Bank are offering their customers special Visa Olympic-edition credit cards. The Bank of China tasked G&D with producing its VISA Olympic credit card as early as 2005. Over 800,000 cards have been supplied so far. The China Everbright Bank is issuing its VISA Olympic credit card in a vertical design displaying the five Fuwa mascots. G&D China has already supplied the bank with 200,000 cards, which have been issued to the bank’s customers starting in August 2007. China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile network operator, has brought out a gift box containing six prepaid telephone cards in a circular arrangement to mark the 2008 Olympic Games. They are already in demand as collectors’ items. China Mobile is an official Olympic partner and will provide the communication technology, the mobile network and numerous mobile services for the Olympic Games. The cards in the gift box are available with a choice of different nominal values. G&D China won the tender for the design of the China Mobile Olympic prepaid cards in the summer of 2007, thus becoming the prime supplier of the gift box. As early as 1994 G&D set up a production plant for banking cards in the province of Hubei and in 1997 another production plant for telephone cards in the province of Jiangxi. The first SIM card ever to be commercially produced in China originated from G&D´s Jiangxi plant. Both plants supply state of the art card products for the Chinese and international markets which are used for telecommunications, payment transactions and identity documents. More News
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