The Smart Card industry is growing rapidly and new standards are emerging across many sectors.
P3™ gives card issuers an easy route to EMV compliant smart cards by generating and managing all of the cryptographic data required. It is a feature rich solution, providing support for the contact and contactless chip applications from all the global card associations. P3 supports data transfer to a personalization bureau in a range of output formats to support the needs of proprietary (native), Multos and Global Platform compliant cards.
There are two members in the P3™ product family:
- P3™ Advance - Low to medium volume solution for issuers and small bureau who require a fast and cost effective approach to enriching a batch of magnetic stripe cardholder records into an EMV chip compliant format
- P3™ Server - Scalable solution for large issuers and bureau who require the flexibility to operate in batch or on-line server mode. This version of P3 supports the needs of a central site server for branch (or instant) issuance and integrates easily with smart card management systems to support post-issuance download on multi-application smart cards
P3 utilizes a dedicated Thales hardware cryptographic module, namely the P3CM-250. This is a high security robust desktop or rack-mounted device which has firmware optimized to provide high performance EMV data preparation.
The following information will help you understand the financial payment smart card industry and where P3 ™ fits:
Introduction to the Smart Card Industry 
Frequently Asked Questions
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