Customers
Asia: India - Reliance Money: a trendsetter for the Indian market
In February, VASCO announced that Reliance Money will deploy two million units of VASCO's renowned Digipass GO3 client authentication devices and installed VACMAN Controller.
"We can see that Reliance Money is a trendsetter in the Indian market," explains Benoit Janssens, VASCO's Area Sales Manager for Middle East and India. "The important steps that they have taken towards security will serve as an example for other Indian financial companies."
Relliance Money is a group company of Reliance Capital; one of India's leading and fastest growing private sector financial services companies, ranking among the top 3 private sector financial services and banking companies, in terms of net worth. Reliance Capital is a part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.
Reliance Money was the first company to have an elaborated online trading application. In a first step, clients could check their investments and saldo's online. Now the Reliance Money clients can perform full trading transactions online, thoroughly secured with VASCO's strong authentication.
"India has huge potential for VASCO. The security trend set by Reliance Money will also open the Indian market for VASCO's strong authentication products," says Benoit Janssens.
EMEA: Belgium - KBC Bank
The leading Belgian KBC Bank (www.kbc.be) will gradually distribute VASCO's Digipass 810 Unconnected Smart Card Reader to its 500,000 online users throughout 2007. KBC e-customers will use Digipass 810 in conjunction with the KBC debit smart card for e-banking as well as e-commerce.
Digipass 810, or KBC Card Reader as the product is named by KBC, is a modern and trustworthy unconnected Personal Card Reader product platform designed to be used for non-face-to-face strong authentication in Internet banking. Digipass 810's unique selling points are its extreme reliability and its user friendliness. Learn more about Digipass 810 at www.vasco.com/digipass_810
EMEA: Ireland - AIB
Allied Irish Bank (www.aib.ie) will use Digipass 550 and VACMAN Controller to secure its customers' assets. AIB is the first financial institution to use the brand new alphanumeric Digipass. This allows the transaction signature to be generated using both numeric and alpha characters, which are commonplace in both the BIC and the IBAN.
AIB's corporate and business customers in Ireland and the UK will be able to perform online banking transactions in an even more secure and user friendly way. To access their accounts, customers will be able to use a Digipass-generated one-time password. To secure online payments, AIB's customers will be able to use the brand new and extra secure alphanumeric transaction signature functionality.
US: Huntington Bank
Huntington National Bank of Columbus, Ohio,(www.huntington.com) is now protecting its business users with VASCO's Digipass GO 3 and VACMAN Controller strong authentication.
In combination with a company ID, user ID, and user password, Digipass GO3 provides a new level of security to Huntington online banking customers by protecting them from online fraud and ID theft. In addition, Digipass GO3 is enabled with its host authentication functionality which allows the user to verify the authenticity of the host, the ultimate weapon against phishing.
Latam: Uruguay - Discount Bank
Discount Bank (www.discbank.com.uy) protects its high end customers extra with Digipass GO3 Strong Authentication.
Digipass GO3 is a lightweight strong user authentication product, especially designed for the large volume banking market. GO3 is extremely easy to use - with a simple touch of a button, the customer generates a unique one-time password. The password can be only used once, which means that it can't be re-used by fraudsters. Digipass GO3 is VASCO's answer to banks that want to give their customers a simple though secure means to use Internet banking applications
Partnerships
Fiserv and VASCO Combat Online Fraud in U.S. Banking Sector
More than 100 U.S. financial institutions have integrated VASCO solutions into their Internet banking offerings. VASCO's alliance with Fiserv, Inc. (Nasdaq: FISV), a U.S. Fortune 500 company that provides information management systems and services to the financial industry, has been a catalyst for the growth.
Several of Fiserv's business units have deployed VASCO's VACMAN Controller software, including Information Technology, Inc. (ITI), Precision Computer Systems (PCS), eSolutions and Fiserv CBS Worldwide.
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