Since the early 2000s, Instant Issuance has been growing worldwide.
However, the influence of FinTech companies has now meant demand from cardholders has peaked.
What was once seen as a nice to have, has become the standard.
Cardholders are looking for increased convenience in their everyday lives, which includes their banking experience.
Getting cardholders up and running, quickly, with a new payment card is essential in a world in which everyone wants everything NOW.
Full Account Opening
- Impress new account holders with an instantly provided payment card.
Emergency Card Replacement
- Instantly replace lost, stolen, damaged, or compromised cards in-branch.
For every kind of payment provider
Credit Unions and Savings banks
In our ever-changing, customer-oriented digital world, enabling financial institutions to get new cards issued and activated fast is key, with our hosted solution financial institutions of any size can be live an in-branch issuance solution in as little as 6 weeks.
Offering instant issuance drives additional traffic into the branch which means extra time spent with your customers, this gives you the golden opportunity to build your relationship and cross-sell other products and services.
Large Financial Institutions
Take full control of your card issuance. Remove barriers of mail delivery to ensure your cardholders receive their card immediately. Never will they have to wait up to 10 weeks via traditional postal methods to receive their card ever again.
Our secure solution also allows you to eliminate opportunities of card interception and fraud by placing the card in their hand immediately providing a stress-free & convenient issuance experience for your cardholders.
Thales Gemalto Instant Issuance means incremental revenue.
Gemalto Instant Issuance delivers an incremental revenue impact for your card program by:
- Increased activation rates
- Immediate activation on receipt of card 82% vs 50%
- Drives more card usage
- Instant card issuance increased the number of purchase transactions by five transactions per month
- Increased Spend & Volume of purchases
- Ten more transactions are made in the first 30 days
- Reduces the risk of Card Interception & fraud
All while adding value by delivering differentiation and increasing consumer satisfaction with:
- Reduced waiting time: A faster process for card delivery
- Greater satisfaction: A personal and dedicated face-to-face service
- Less stress: Lost cards can be replaced faster, increasing confidence
- Increased convenience: Greater ease and choice in how to retrieve a card
A Fully packaged solution
We aim to deliver beyond "just a secure software."
Our purpose is to ease the delivery and usage of the service by complementing it with cards, PIN devices, and most importantly being compatible with our Gemalto Instant Card desktop printers whether you choose to do flat, embossed or full edge to edge printing.
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Thales Gemalto Instant Issuance
Gemalto Instant Issuance [PDF - 4.7mb]
Why wait when you can have it in an instant?
The easiest way for Finance Institutions to build trust and convenience for their cardholders
Enhance your branch experience with Cards in an Instant