Thames Card Technology

Customised prepaid gift cards

ibaldry — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:15:46 +0000

Thames Card Technology has produced the first UK customisable prepaid MasterCard® gift cards.

These cards, issued by Newcastle Building Society and offered through Quantum Card Services, use Retransfer printing technology enabling images that cardholders upload via Quantum’s website to be used to create a fully personalised gift card that can be used at any MasterCard® outlet worldwide.

Card customisation has already been proven to result in increased transactions, acquisition and retention rates in traditional card markets. It will also offer an immediate differentiator for marketing purposes, particularly important in the ultra-competitive prepaid market

The service is provided in conjunction with the Serverside Group a global technology leader in digital card design to ensure that the images meet with MasterCard® design requirements.

The result is a high quality bespoke product that gives the customer the opportunity to make a gift card far more personal.

Cards are available from the MasterCard® Prepaid Gift Card Home Page

Thames issue DDA personalised cards

ibaldry — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:36:58 +0000

19th January 2010

Thames Card Technology have successfully personalised and issued EMV cards supporting DDA¹technology for the Bank of Cyprus UK Visa Debit portfolio. The Data Preparation and Personalisation solution has been developed in house with the Smart Card technology provided by our partners Sagem Orga.

With both VISA and MasterCard mandating the use of DDA from the 1st January 2011, this recent development will mean that Thames can continue to support its financial and banking clients with the latest technology.

¹DDA (Dynamic Data Authentication) – is a type of Offline Data Authentication in which the card uses public key technology to generate a cryptographic value which includes transaction-specific data elements. This cryptographic value is validated by the terminal to protect against fraud.

New Website Launch

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:04:46 +0000

16th November 2009

Thames Card Technology launches their new website along with a new logo and branding. The branding will be phased in across all marketing material and correspondence over the course of the next 6-12 months

New Appointment

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:20:59 +0000

16th November 2009

Thames Card Technology Ltd appoints David Bevan as Production Manager with a special emphasis on implementing quality, service and production improvement strategies. David has a wealth of operational experience and brings both high levels of engineering and people development skills to complement the existing management team.