Cards and payments

One payment.
Endless possibilities.

Digital payment technology comes in many shapes. You'll find them all at Thales.

With EMV as the underlying technology, we now supply a complete range of form factors to accommodate your specific constraints and business requirements as an issuer of payment tools.

Discover :

Our EMV chip card portfolio and EMV white label scheme
Our contactless payment solutions. From EMV cards to innovative form factors: wearables, micro tags and stickers
Our Gemalto Voice Payment Card
Our new biometric card to leverage fingerprint authentication (watch the video below)
Our eco-friendly bank cards to accompany your green payment strategies
Our most prestigious metal cards for style and panache
Our display payment card portfolio
Our card design and printing options
More resources with our web dossiers: EMV chip in 3 minutes and EMV in the US

In the spotlight: more on EMV cards, contactless and innovative plastics

Wood Card: Distinctly Natural Credit Card

Thales Gemalto's Wood Card transforms banking through eco-friendly innovation. Crafted from sustainable wood, this durable credit card caters to the premium market, demonstrating the seamless integration of luxury and sustainability in payment ...

EMV card with fingerprint biometrics -The Thales biometric payment card

Discover the new biometric card from Thales. With a fingerprint sensor right on the card body, paying with an EMV card just got easier.

Biometrics in payment: The case of the biometric bank card (white paper)

Discover why biometrics for credit cards is the ideal payment technology to migrate the entire card experience to contactless, regardless of the amount.

Thales Gemalto Voice Payment Card

Discover how visually impaired people can make each payment transaction more secured and trusted.

Metal cards - Premium experience

Discover a complete portfolio of metal credit cards that will convey your brand’s appreciation to yours cardholders and a reflexion of their success.

Parley for the Oceans and Thales: eco-innovative cards for a cause

Thales has partnered with Parley for the Oceans and launched the Thales Gemalto Ocean Plastic® card for banks and their environmentally conscious customers.

The life cycle of a more eco-friendly bank card: supporting your sustainable practices

Our portfolio covers every aspect of a bank card’s life, from bio-sourced materials to eco-packaging created with a more robust environmental policy.

Contactless payment is everywhere

How does contactless payment work? Discover benefits for consumers and merchants. A contactless revolution powered by Thales.

Cardbodies and options for payment solutions (2024 portfolio)

Discover Thales' unbeatable card body technologies from metal cards to transparent bodies to special printing and hot stamping effects.

Thales receives the 2024 Juniper Research Platinum Prize for Sustainability in Payment Cards

We are proud to have won the Future Digital Awards 2024 for Fintech and Payment with Juniper Research on October 2024.

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Global modern card issuing platforms [Market 2024-2029]

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Last case studies

10 Oct 2023

The new rules of modern payment card issuance

Today, everyone wants everything more or less immediately. It's the one-click mentality. What about card issuance? Are consumers prepared to wait days for a new plastic card to arrive in the post? Let's take a look at how card issuance is changing. ...

10 Jul 2023

That card looks so good on you! How the payment card went from function to fashion

Thanks to the growth of contactless payment, card usage is skyrocketing all over the world. Let's see how banks and fintechs are innovating around card design and function…

24 Apr 2023

Contactless payments: adoption, innovation and a window into how they work

[Infographics] Contactless payments are everywhere in 2023. Even street vendors accept them. But how do these transactions actually work? What is happening in the background in the split second between tapping the reader and the transaction being accepted? ...

20 Feb 2023

Singapore: the world’s smartest city

Singapore has been ranked the world’s smartest city. What does a smart city look like on the streets and in the homes of Singapore?

20 Aug 2024

Itaú Unibanco innovates with a credit card specifically designed to meet the needs of visually impaired people

With exclusive technology from Thales, the bank is a pioneer in the initiative, allowing visually impaired customers to know the amount of the purchase on their credit card before entering the password, avoiding fraud or errors. ...

23 Jan 2024

Thales and Caju take cards produced with sustainable raw materials to more than 30 000 companies in Brazil

The partnership reduces the environmental impact of the benefits company and reinforces the pioneering spirit of the Brazilian payment market

18 May 2022

Banks shift to eco-friendly solutions supported by innovative Thales cards, certified sustainable by Mastercard

The amount of plastic used to produce payment cards every year is equivalent to the weight of 125 Statues of Liberty. With environmental challenges now a growing, global concern, Thales, the leader in high tech security, has developed solutions for a greener world, rec...

20 Dec 2021

Poland’s first biometric card developed by Thales comes into customers’ hands

Since 20th of December, Poland’s first EMV biometric cards are coming into hands of Bank Pocztowy’s customers. The payment is realized only after the biometric verification of the cardholder’s fingerprint.