| In France, the migration to EMV is gathering pace.
Six payment terminal manufacturers are continuing their EMV pilot
tests with around 120 retailers. Wynid and Moneyline are also
carrying out tests with six mass distribution chains (Auchan, Coop,
Champion, Décathlon, Intermarché and Leclerc). Over
250 checkouts equipped with CB5.2 Eftpos terminals have been
installed at 21 different sites. Finally, around 300 mixed
CB-B0'/EMV cards are undergoing testing of the manufacturers' new
chips (IBM, Schlumberger, Gemplus and Multos). General rollout of
these cards got underway in the last quarter of 2003. |