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After years of speeches, SEPA (Single Euro Payment Area) is set to take off next week, on November 2nd, 2009. The SEPA vision was part originally promoted as a consequence of the European common currency. As with the Euro there are no barriers for paying cash within the Euro area, there should be no barrier for paying with financial instruments. THE Commission and the ECB define SEPA as a set of means to have “no distinction between cross-border and national payments within the euro area”.

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As most of humanity is now conscious of environmental damages and the ecological crisis we are going through, everyone in the economy feels compelled to demonstrate some efforts to make our impact on the planet lighter.

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Even if the world economy is undergoing an important crisis that damages permanently many sectors of the economy, our industry remains unaffected by the ongoing crisis. Even at crisis times, no one is going to stop using their mobile phone or making purchases with their bank card. Similarly, crisis or no crisis, secure identity cards will still be needed to cross borders…

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Last week, in his opening speech for the SIMposium conference, Michel Canitrot, chairman of the board, SIM alliance, gave a global overview of the SIM card industry current status.

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What do Sophia Antipolis, in Southern France, and Hong Kong have in common? Both places are the hotbeds of technology innovation for our industry. In Sophia Antipolis, this innovation trend is mainly due to the presence of numerous innovative companies, thanks to the French government will years ago, and to a market push with innovative and entrepreneurial companies, along with the launch of Nice NFC experimentation. In Hong Kong, innovation comes from the long-standing free entrepreneurship of the territory along with the geographical and cultural proximity of the huge Chinese market.

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