Giesecke+Devrient buys Pod Group to combine enterprise IoT connectivity and secure eSIMs

Cambridge, UK / Munich, Germany. July 7th 2021 – IoT enterprise network operator (ENO), Pod Group, has been acquired by Giesecke+Devrient (G+D), a global security technology group headquartered in Munich. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The acquisition will build on Pod Group’s positioning as a provider of the connectivity, infrastructure and managed

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Sim Local announces appointment of head of eSim business development

Sim Local has appointed long-standing industry expert, Marcus Sly, as its head of eSIM business development. Marcus brings extensive knowledge and experience of the telecommunications sector, having worked in the industry for over 23 years.

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MagicCube to launch its PIN-on-Glass product at Money 20/20 Europe in suite of IoT and PoS systems

MagicCube, the company that claims the world’s only Software Trusted Execution Environment platform (sTEE), is exhibiting at Money 20/20 Europe in Amsterdam on June 4th – 6th.

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G&D integrates with Otono to cut costs and accelerate installations of eSIM management solutions

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is teaming up with Otono Networks to simplify and drastically reduce the cost of deployment of eSIM solutions for carriers around the world.

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Giesecke & Devrient and Telefónica to offer eSIM management for consumer devices

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) teamed up with Telefónica at Mobile World Congress 2016, which took place from February 22 to 25 in Barcelona, to introduce a solution for eSIM management in the consumer sector.

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Juniper Research announces Technology & Innovation winners of Future Digital Awards 2016

The winners of this year’s Future Digital Awards for Technology & Innovation were announced.

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Ericsson and G&D partner to enable one-stop shop for globally applicable M2M solutions

Ericsson has announced a partnership with Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) to deliver a commercial end-to-end subscription management solution. Via a highly secure process, the system will enable the remote provisioning and management of mobile operator SIM profiles and policies.

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Giesecke & Devrient teams up with IBM on new connected vehicle cryptographic security

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and IBM are teaming up to work on a new connected vehicle security solution with the intent to make car hacks much more difficult in the future. The new crypto chip and key solution is being showcased first at IAA International Automobile Fair in Frankfurt, Germany from September 17 to 27.

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Giesecke & Devrient receives Visa certification for HCE cloud payment services

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has been certified “Visa Ready” by Visa for Host Card Emulation (HCE) cloud based payment services. With the Visa Ready status, Visa ensures that technology and service providers develop and deploy products and services that are compatible with Visa’s requirements

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GlobalPlatform standardises a secure channel to optimise for mobile apps security

Redwood City, CA, USA. June 11, 2015 – GlobalPlatform has published an upgrade to its Card Specification v2.2 to protect the data exchange between a secure element (SE) and a trusted execution environment (TEE) on a mobile device.

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Smart watch market evolves as tech vendors help OEMs grab a piece of the ‘wearable’ action

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain. March 2, 2015 — Delegates at #MWC15 are being saturated with messages about wearable tech, not least smart watches. This year however, says Jeremy Cowan, there’s a genuine effort to address the challenges they face, such as poor design, limited functionality, battery life, and high cost.

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G&D’s subscription management platform powers DOCOMO eSIM solution for M2M devices

Munich, Germany, July 23, 2014 – NTT DOCOMO, Inc., the largest mobile network operator in Japan, has selected Giesecke & Devrient´s (G&D) subscription management solution for Japan’s first commercial eSIM (embedded SIM) service.

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Giesecke & Devrient guarantees secure payment function of BASE digital wallet

Munich, Germany, July 16, 2014 – BASE mobile subscribers can now make contactless payments using their smartphone at the supermarket when filling up their car and in restaurants using the “BASE wallet” digital wallet – and it is just as secure as using a traditional debit or credit card.

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Jasper and Giesecke & Devrient partner to claim world’s first end-to-end solution for Global SIM

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona; Mountain View, USA; Munich, Germany (Business Wire) — Jasper Wireless, the connected devices platform powering the mobile Internet of Things (IoT), has formed a technical partnership with Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), an international technology provider specialising in payment, secure communication, and identity management. Together they are reportedly delivering the world’s first commercial

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G&D wins Sesames Award 2013 in the software category with its TEE-TSM solution

Munich, Germany – Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) was one of the winners of this year’s Sesames Awards, presented at last week’s CARTES Secure Connexions Event 2013 in Paris. G&D was honoured for its contribution to secure smart connected devices such as smartphones and tablets with comprehensive Over-the-Air (OTA) services. G&D’s Trusted Service Manager (TSM) solution

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Verizon teams with Giesecke & Devrient to deploy 4G LTE rugged SIMs for M2M communications

Munich, Germany – Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), a supplier of end-to-end secure mobile solutions, and Verizon have deployed ruggedised 4G LTE Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards for use in M2M communications. This represents one of the first activations on the Verizon Wireless network in the U.S. of a removable ruggedised LTE M2M SIM provided by

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