With 11 personalization bureaus and local partnerships worldwide, Oberthur Card Systems personalises and delivers annually more than 500 million cards to its customers located through all the five continents.

Such volumes make Oberthur Card Systems the world’s largest supplier of personalization services relying on its flexibility and its market knowledge to respond perfectly to customer expectations.

Prestigious customers such as AIB, BNP, HSBC, Société Générale, National Building Society, Strålfors Group or le CEDICAM give us their trust and their personalization needs to Oberthur Card Systems' bureaus.
In the United States, Oberthur Card Systems was selected by American Express to manufacture and personalize the first American banking smart card deployed in volume: the well known Blue card which featured multiple applications as well as PKI capabilities. By extending its localizations, Oberthur Card Systems has progressively built an integrated worldwide network of personalization bureaus, which all have in common :

• the same technology,
• the same skills,
• the same security imperatives.

Oberthur Card Systems’ multiple plants offer a built-in redundancy that allows customers to benefit from back-up services and enable clients to benefit of optional disaster recovery services that ensure continuity of services in any circumstances.

In addition, Oberthur Card Systems is keen to offer an unrivalled personalization offer to international customers that desire to contract at a global scale while being servicing at a national level. Such unique proposition encouraged many issuers to outsource their personalization to Oberthur Card Systems and to sign a global Service Level Agreement that fixes and details service conditions and states local specificities in a same document.

CPS is a Personalization solution and a Global personalization World Wide Distribution Network of personalization Facilities.

With CPS, Oberthur Card Systems introduces a new approach in personalization with an easy deployable and maintainable solution, allowing to manage multiple card configurations and reduce personalization cycle.

All personalization sites share the same system and the same information system, giving a full back-up facility

CPS is a unique solution build around a powerful database tracking all information on application profiles, card definition, generated card image and complete card life-cycle history.

Complete end-to-end services, from card manufacturing to card delivery with stock and supply chain management, CPS tool provides a set of added value services that bring value to card issuance process to extend banks marketing approach and enable one to one communication :

• data processing & key management,
• customer oriented fulfilment designs,
• mass customization capability.

• Reduction of the new card development process
• Match evolving market conditions (very adaptive, capitalize on investment)
• Ability to produce at the best cost
• A better time-to-market brought to customers
• Each customer get access to a central expertise and some local adaptation
• Deployment and access to added-value services facilitated
• An equal security in all sites
• A constant quality, an increased customers’ satisfaction and an improved reliability