Press releases
Eurosmart issues its updated figures
Friday, 21 May 2010
All market segments showed positive volume growth in 2009, demonstrating the resilience and capacity of innovation of our Industry.
Eurosmart figures for 2009 global smart cards shipments, including secure contactless and 2010 forecast are presented in Eurosmart press release.
Eurosmart General Assembly confirms objectives and ambitions
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Eurosmart General Assembly took place on 20 May 2010 in Munich. The General Assembly elected a new Bureau and welcomed new members but also confirmed objectives and ambitions.
Eurosmart supports the EU-wide deployment of life-saving in-car e-Call system
Tuesday, 04 May 2010
Eurosmart Chairman Marc Bertin signed on 4 May 2010 the Memorandum of Understanding on e-Call - the in-car emergency call system - to support the EU-wide deployment of intelligent transport systems.
Participating to the signature ceremony organised by the European Commission in Brussels, Marc Bertin declared: "The Smart Security Industry represented by Eurosmart has committed today to support the European Commission on the e-Call project and is proposing its expertise to contribute to the systems' interoperability, with the proper level of security".
Eurosmart Press release - Communication on payments cards in Germany
Friday, 08 January 2010
Read the press release2009: The Smart Cards Industry demonstrated resilience to the economic downturn and continued to grow in volume for high-end microprocessor cards. Eurosmart anticipates another year of growth in volume of about 10% for 2010.
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) continued to gain a strong momentum in 2009 despite the economic slow down. Our industry demonstrated that its role in making citizens' digital life more secure and more convenient is more than ever on the critical path for strategic markets such as Telecom, Payment, eGov, Enterprise IT and Transport. The focus on Security remained a top priority for all stakeholders: 4.4 Billion units of Smart Secure Devices were shipped in 2009, a 5.1% growth versus 2008, and we anticipate that number to grow again by 9.9% in 2010 to exceed 4.8 Billion units.
Eurosmart welcomes new members
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Following its decision to enlarge its scope to get members from new horizons such as issuers and operators, Government bodies, Universities and Laboratories, Eurosmart welcomes three new members: the Smart Payment Association (SPA) and FIME (well known test solution provider and laboratory) as Associated Members, and Jean-Pierre Delesse as an Individual Member.
Smart cards shipments in 2008 and 2009 forecast (30 April 2009)
Friday, 05 June 2009
The new Eurosmart market vision covers 2008 Smart card shipments and last forecast for 2009. This new issue integrates market knowledge from all of our members, analysis of general economical environment and market trends.
New challenges for the Smart Security Industry in 2009-2010
Monday, 11 May 2009
Eurosmart held its General Assembly on 30 April 2009 in Brussels.
2008: The industry benefited from a sustained growth in its three main segments: Telecoms, Financial Services and Public Sector, as well as from the emergence of new Smart Secure Devices for contactless applications
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
For the year 2008, EUROSMART increased its forecast for Telecom microprocessor cards to reflect a strong year due to two main factors: a strong growth in the GSM subscribers base in emerging countries (with a net addition of users at a pace of 50,000 per hour), and a stronger role of the SIM as a Service platform in mature markets.
Financial Services continued to benefit from both the wide spread of EMV cards and the adoption, beyond the US, of contactless payment solutions (cards and key fobs).
The Public Sector delivered a strong growth in 2008 thanks mainly to Government and ID and despite some delays in some major Healthcare programs.
Smart Card Industry will hit new records in 2007: 4 billion cards in 2007!
Thursday, 19 April 2007
In 2007, the activity of the smart card industry should continue its growth at a 16% rate, so much that smart card shipments worldwide will go beyond 4 billion following a volume of about 3.5 billion in 2006.
Moreover, Eurosmart gives this year a first estimation of various "contactless" applications which represent more than 500M contactless devices, including memory only basic security as well as Secured Contactless Devices such as e-Passports, e-ID cards, EMV contactless cards, but excluding basic physical access control cards.
