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Sequent and TIS Selected by Major Japanese Bank and Leading Card Issuer to Deliver Secure Mobile PaymentsTwo Japanese financial services leaders to deploy secure mobile payment security SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequent, Inc. today announced that Sequent and TIS Inc. in Japan have been selected by a Japanese megabank and a major payment card issuer to provide secure mobile payment applications enabled by Sequent Platform. The Sequent Platform orchestrates and manages the digital issuance and security of any type of personally identifiable credential to any type of connected device, such as payment account, financial account or identification information. Sequent secures mobile data by concealing Personal Identifiable Information (PII), rendering the information useless to online criminals while providing a frictionless customer experience. TIS is a member of the TIS INTEC Group based in Tokyo, Japan, and provides payment processing, integration services and IT solutions from its data centers in Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Asian region. TIS serves 3,000 customers across Japan, China and the ASEAN region spanning finance, manufacturing, distribution/service, public services, and communications. "We are excited to work with Sequent as our strategic partner in the mobile payments arena and we eagerly anticipate the upcoming launch of our WalletEVO, a mobile wallet service for two industry-leading partners in the banking and credit card industries," said Ken Nakamura, Department Manager of Digital Transformation Services Planning Dept. at TIS. "With Sequent Platform and WalletEVO, we have created a secure mobile payments solution that can securely store payment information in smartphones and other devices." Sequent Platform will protect, manage and orchestrate information for TIS's WalletEVO for a megabank and a major credit card issuer which both operate in the Japanese market. WalletEVO will encode payment and card information to securely store data in the event of a lost smartphone. "We are pleased to partner with TIS to provide the Sequent Platform's state-of-the-art security technology with TIS's WalletEVO to improve consumer confidence in mobile payments. We are very happy that TIS and its customers entrust their transactions to our technology," said Joan Zeigler, CEO of Sequent. About Sequent For more information, please visit www.sequent.com, like us on LinkedIn and Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @sequentsw. About TIS For more information about TIS, please visit http://www.tis.com Logo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/897138/Sequent_Logo.jpg SOURCE Sequent |