Gemalto’s One Stop Hub For All That Is Mobile

Gemalto on Monday (Sept. 8) plans to introduce a service called the Allynis Trusted Services Hub, which it will pitch as helping financial institutions, enterprises, transport operators and other service providers a “single connection in order to securely deploy their value-added and mobile payment services across a comprehensive portfolio of smartphones and mobile networks around the world,” the company said.

The pitch, directly anticipating Tuesday’s (Sept. 9) Apple rollout of it new iPhone supporting NFC, argues that Gemalto has “the largest user base using NFC smartphones already equipped with Secure Elements” referencing more than “1.5 billion mobile users worldwide covered by Gemalto-contracted Trusted Services Management (TSM) platforms.”

“The Allynis Trusted Services Hub in particular removes the need for multiple individual contracts between service providers and mobile security enablers, which are typically required in open security schemes,” a statement said. “The Allynis Trusted Services Hub is operated from Gemalto’s certified secure data centers, delivering state-of-the-art standards of scalability and availability, and banking-grade security to ensure payment and services inter-operability. Equally important, customers connected to Gemalto’s Allynis Trusted Services Hub benefit from the high assurance of confidentiality and control over their own data, as they would with in-house implementations.”