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Carta Worldwide is a Canadian software company that offers digital transaction processing, specializing in mobile and prepaid transactions. In addition to their Canadian headquarters, Carta has offices in London, Dubai, San Francisco and Casablanca. Carta operates internationally, providing financial technology and mobile payment software. Carta’s clients include Vodafone,〔("Contactless Card Payments enabled on Vodafone Wallet with Visa and Carta Worldwide" ), vodafone.com, March 30, 2015.〕 Banco Sabadell,〔Clark, Sarah. ("Banco Sabadell picks Carta for HCE payments trial" ), NFC World. March 4, 2014.〕 Westpac NZ,〔("Westpac tests NFC-enabled mobile payments using HCE in New Zealand" ), July 22, 2014.〕 and Novum Bank.〔("Novum Bank Selects Carta Worldwide as Processing Platform for Prepaid Card and Debit Card Portfolios" ), March 31, 2014.〕 The company also partners with MasterCard〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.actcda.com/information/action-newsletters/2014-newsletter-archives/june-2014-action-newsletter.html )〕 and DCR Strategies/TruCash〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://corporate.trucash.com/ )〕 Carta was the world's first processor to complete integration to MasterCard MOTAPS, enabling rapid deployment for NFC programs.〔("Carta Worldwide Completes a World First with MasterCard" ), MasterCard Newsroom, May 10, 2011.〕 Their Charlottetown, PEI, data centre is the only secure third party issuer processing data host for financial services in Canada.〔("Carta Worldwide setting up shop in Charlottetown" ), CBC News, September 10, 2014〕 ==History== Carta was founded in 2007 in Oakville, Ontario.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cbj.ca/carta_worldwide/ )〕 Carta's CEO Brian Semkiw, is the co-founder of Rand Worldwide which had 1500 employees and had secured revenues of approximately $500 million by the time it was privatized in 2007.〔(Official Carta website ), retrieved September 2, 2014.〕 ''Profit Magazine'' named Semkiw "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1996.〔("Brian Semkiw P. Eng. Executive Profile" ), Bloomberg Businessweek, retrieved September 3, 2014.〕 On September 15, 2014, Carta Worldwide closed the first tranche of a $12 million Series D venture round. Led by Toronto-based merchant bank (Difference Capital ) and (DC Thomson ) (UK), the $7-million investment adds to the more than $50 million the company has invested in its digital transaction processing platform.〔Waddell, Nick. ("Difference Capital leads first tranche of $12-million Series D in Carta Worldwide" ), Cantech Letter, September 15, 2014〕〔Dorbian, Iris. ("Difference Capital and DC Thomson back Carta" ), Reuters PE Hub, September 16, 2014〕 In 2015 Carta partnered with Visa Inc. and Vodafone to enable contactless bank card payments.〔Boden, Rian. ("Vodafone combines tokens and SIMs for NFC payments in Europe" ) NFC World. March 30, 2015. Retrieved April 14, 2015.〕 The Vodafone wallet uses a hybrid of a hardware SIM card and cloud-based tokenization. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carta Worldwide」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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