Germany: Gemalto Launches Unique Optical Reader for Online Banking

With 30 million users, Germany has the largest number of online banking
customers in Europe
AMSTERDAM--(Business Wire)--
Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today
announced commercial launch of Ezio Optical TAN, a unique optical authentication
reader for online banking specially designed for the German market. The size of
a credit card, the Gemalto reader fits in a wallet along with the banking card,
to offer unmatched convenience and portability. Ezio Optical TAN is compliant
with the latest German HHD* standard and leverages the security of the widely
deployed SECCOS** banking cards. With 30 million users, Germany has the largest
number of online banking customers in Europe.

With Ezio Optical TAN, online customers can enjoy anytime, anywhere e-banking
with utmost simplicity. Users just present the device in front of their computer
screen and optical sensors capture the data they would normally enter from the
reader keypad to carry out and sign online transactions. No software needs to be
installed to use the device.

"Reinforcing e-banking services security has always been a priority for German
banks and they were among the first in Europe to implement strong authentication
solutions," commented Jacques Seneca, executive vice president of the Security
Business Unit for Gemalto. "Gemalto`s strong historical presence in Germany,
particularly in the banking sector, has provided us with an in-depth
understanding of local banks` specific needs. This resulted in the development
of an authentication solution that is perfectly tailored for this very advanced
market."

The Gemalto product is part of an extended family of authentication and digital
signature solutions that includes notably readers, tokens, software and
services. Gemalto has already successfully delivered Ezio authentication
solutions to leading banks in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

HHD*: HandHeld Device
SECCOS**: Secure Chip Card Operating System

About Gemalto

Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO) is the world leader in digital security
with 2008 annual revenues of €1.68 billion, and 10,000 employees operating out
of 75 offices, research and service centers in 40 countries.

Gemalto is at the heart of our evolving digital society. The freedom to
communicate, travel, shop, bank, entertain, and work-anytime, anywhere-has
become an integral part of what people want and expect, in ways that are
convenient, enjoyable and secure.

Gemalto delivers on the growing demands of billions of people worldwide for
mobile connectivity, identity and data protection, credit card safety, health
and transportation services, e-government and national security. We do this by
supplying to governments, wireless operators, banks and enterprises a wide range
of secure personal devices, such as subscriber identification modules (SIM) in
mobile phones, smart banking cards, smart card access badges, electronic
passports, and USB tokens for online identity protection. To complete the
solution we also provide software, systems and services to help our customers
achieve their goals.

As the use of Gemalto`s software and secure devices increases with the number of
people interacting in the digital and wireless world, the company is poised to
thrive over the coming years.

For more information please visit www.gemalto.com.

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Gemalto
Rémi Calvet, +33 (0) 1 55 01 64 10
M.: +33 (0) 6 22 72 81 58
remi.calvet@gemalto.com
or
Aline Borne, +33 (0)1 55 01 51 05
M.: +33 (0)6 16 29 87 04
aline.borne@gemalto.com
or
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rebekah.lahey@tbwa-corporate.com

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