Mediterranean Smart Cards Company (MSCC) recently announced that its Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance certification as a smart card processing provider has been renewed. For the second year, MSCC received the highest level of compliance by an international team of auditors. As a PCI member organization, MSCC works with the Council to evolve the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) and other payment card data protection standards.

”As the Egyptian banking sector continues to grow more sophisticated, all stakeholders have an interest in ensuring consumer payment data is protected,” said Hoda Shoukry, MSCC Managing Director. “MSCC is continually working to upgrade our technology and implement international best practices as demonstrated by the renewal of our PCI DSS certification. With more consumers using electronic payment cards, our mission continues to provide the most efficient, secure, and accurate smart card processing services throughout the region’s payment card industry.”

The Mediterranean Smart Cards Company (MSCC) has won an industry award for its innovations in the market of contactless smart card technology.

MSCC received the Banking Technology Leadership Award at the recent Cardex 2009 Digital Identity Conference and Expo for the Middle East and Africa regions.

The company was commended for its technological innovation and industry leadership, as well as landmark achievements in the region over the past year.

Hoda Shoukry, Managing Director of MSCC, said that the group had made significant efforts over the past few years to introduce the benefits of contactless smart card technology to stakeholders in Africa and the Middle East.

He went on to add that to receive the award was an extreme honour.

MSCC provides multiple schemes of pre-pay smart card products using the latest processing technologies. It appeared at the Expo with the aim of educating consumers about smart cards - “the payment of the future”.