Shoreline's off-the-shelf solution speeds up EMV Deployment for U.S. banks

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, March 11, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shoreline, a Gemalto company, announces its all-in-one EMV portfolio designed specifically for regional and community banks to quickly transition to chip and PIN or chip and signature technology. Leveraging a complete off-the-shelf EMV solution, Shoreline's customers can launch a full chip deployment in less than four months ensuring business continuity for them and their cardholders. Small and medium sized banks also save time and money by using the Company's standardized personalization process, unique chip profile and timely delivery service.

Shoreline's long standing personal customer service and industry acumen combined with Gemalto's EMV expertise gives regional and community banks a trusted partnership they can depend on. Through each step of a customer's EMV migration, Shoreline takes a hands-on approach from the project coordination with processors to the artwork design. With a complete range of EMV outfitted technologies, Shoreline enhances current issuance and procurement while introducing new sources of customer retention, engagement and satisfaction.

• Personalization and real-time monitoring- Working in conjunction with major U.S processors, Shoreline provides banks with high efficiency card data preparation for speedy deployment of EMV cards. Customers also have access to real-time information on delivery status and stages of the personalization process through their own customer information portal.
• EMV card procurement- Shoreline manages the card procurement process through its standard offer and the introduction of Gemalto's unsurpassed supply chain management technology.
• EMV Instant issuance – Banks can easily implement in-branch EMV card issuance. The card is immediately in the hands of the customer for improved convenience while banks benefit from a new service that reduces time-consuming logistics.
• EMV Card customization- Allynis AllAboutMe, lets cardholders interactively design their own card through image databases or social media. It's a new way for small and medium-sized banks to engage with their customers while proven to significantly increase card activation and usage.

"Shoreline has been providing card personalization solutions to the U.S. financial industry for more than 25 years," said Vadim Kagan, Director of Business Development at Shoreline. "Regional and community banks can take advantage of our high-tech, large-scale facilities for easy issuance across the U.S. and Shoreline's EMV off-the-shelf solution places everything small and medium banks needs at their fingertips for a faster time-to-market. "

About Shoreline

Shoreline, a Gemalto Company, has been offering card personalization solutions and assistance to the financial industry for more than 25 years. Specializing in ATM/debit/credit card production, personalization and fulfillment for community banks and credit unions, Shoreline is dedicated to providing a personal touch and superior customer service while remaining on the cutting edge of technology in the payment card industry. Shoreline is part of the Gemalto network of personalization bureaus in the US, which has one of the largest footprints in North America.

For more information, please visit http://www.shoreline-solutions.com/. Or www.Gematlo.com/emv Follow us on Twitter.

About Gemalto

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) is the world leader in digital security with 2013 annual revenues of €2.4 billion and more than 12,000 employees operating out of 85 offices and 25 research and software development centers, located in 44 countries.

We are at the heart of the rapidly evolving digital society. Billions of people worldwide increasingly want the freedom to communicate, travel, shop, bank, entertain and work – anytime, everywhere – in ways that are enjoyable and safe. Gemalto delivers on their expanding needs for personal mobile services, payment security, authenticated cloud access, identity and privacy protection, eHealthcare and eGovernment efficiency, convenient ticketing and dependable machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. We develop secure embedded software and secure products which we design and personalize. Our platforms and services manage these products, the confidential data they contain and the trusted end-user services made possible.

Our innovations enable our clients to offer trusted and convenient digital services to billions of individuals. Gemalto thrives with the growing number of people using its solutions to interact with the digital and wireless world.

For more information visit www.gemalto.com, www.justaskgemalto.com, blog.gemalto.com, or follow @gemalto on Twitter.

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