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We are an IT consultancy that has spent two decades advising leading organisations around the world. We help them to reap real benefits from technological change in the field of secure electronic transactions: transactions ranging from retail payments to passport control and from mobile top-up to TV shopping.

We help to:

• Evaluate new business concepts to give our clients' ideas a firm foundation.
• Develop new products and services from specification to customer roll-out.
• Test and certify complex systems. We have a dedicated e-passport interoperability service.

Our aim is to assist customers in reaching their goals in a timely and cost-effective way. We work in four main sectors:

• Financial services where we help card schemes, banks, retailers and others.
• Telecommunications and media field where we advise world leaders.
• Technology where we support some of the largest IT companies.
• Public sector where our work ranges across government and law enforcement.

We support the deployment of practical solutions using the most appropriate technologies and have world-class expertise at every step in the transaction value chain:

• Authentication including identity cards and biometrics.
• Access including wireless and contactless devices.
• Networks, such as digital TV, the Internet and mobile.
• Transactions, founded on the concepts of digital money and digital identity
• Applications ranging from CRM in a law firm to microfinance in Africa.