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Multicard Equips Dutch Soccer Club with Full Cashless Payment Services

Users can initiate their payments by RFID wristband, RFID labels or by labels attached to their mobile phones

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Multicard announced it will deploy a complete cashless payment system at a well-known soccer club in the Netherlands. Multicard worked in partnership with a large Dutch bank and in close collaboration with Arygon Technologies and TagStar Systems, two leading RFID industry players, to provide a complete system to the club. The cashless services are available to all players, members and visitors of the soccer club.

The payment system is web-based and users can initiate their payments by RFID wristband, RFID labels or by labels attached to their mobile phones. Multicard Netherlands BV has been a leading advocate in promoting near field communication (NFC) technology for applications in payment systems. The company has significant expertise in the personalization of identification devices such as cards, tokens and NFC enabled mobile phones, as well as software systems and infrastructure.

Pieter Kooistra, founder and CEO of Multicard in the Netherlands, commented, “We are very proud to be able to offer a leading edge cashless payment service to a leading soccer club. This represents an exciting opportunity for us, as we are able assist a key customer in reaching their strategic vision, while demonstrating our ability to partner with leading companies in banking and technology to offer a complete turnkey solution. As a pioneer in cashless payments, we are confident the market will continue to grow rapidly and that we at Multicard together with our trusted partners will lead the way in driving the adoption of this exciting technology.”

The online payment transactions are done in partnership with a large Dutch bank, for which Multicard currently acts as a payment service provider.

Arygon Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of advanced RFID reader modules for personal identification and payment, will deliver their Multi-ISO and NFC reader modules for payments.

TagStar Systems, a leading supplier of high quality RFID inlays for ticketing, labelling, smart cards and special transponder designs will provide the labels in the various formats of wristbands, labels and stickers that can be attached to any mobile phones.

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