Serverside Group grants card customisation licence to DimpleDough

Business Wire via ITWeb,

London, 17 May 2013

Global card customisation specialist, Serverside Group, today announced the granting of a licence of its US card customisation patents to DimpleDough (an Ohio-based financial services provider) along with its customers Jack Henry & Associates (Jack Henry), Eastern Bank and Credit Union 1 (CU1) and the dismissal of those parties from the suit brought against them (and other parties) by Serverside in Delaware.

The licence will cover all of DimpleDough's existing customers and future card customisation programmes with financial institutions and service providers in the US.

Shawn Barrieau, CEO of DimpleDough, commented: "DimpleDough is pleased to be working with Serverside Group to offer card customisation to its US clients. We believe the combination of Serverside Group's intellectual property and DimpleDough's service will prove to be a good partnership for our customers and the market, and we look forward to the partnership."

"Serverside Group is delighted that DimpleDough has recognised our invention in the card customisation space and we look forward to supporting them in this field in the future," commented Howard Berg, Managing Director of Serverside Group. "We have a strong commitment to protect our inventions globally so that we can provide our customers with the market-leading service they value."

Serverside, a Gemalto company

Serverside is the global technology leader in digital card design and a provider of innovative artwork solutions to issuers, personalisation bureaus and card vendors. Serverside is part of Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security. Serverside has built a market-leading position by running more than 2 000 card programmes through its network of over 200 card issuers in 27 countries. As part of Gemalto's comprehensive offer to financial service providers and retail merchants, more than 70 million card designs have been created using Serverside software - improving card programmes for many of the world's leading institutions. Serverside's range of card customisation solutions helps drive card programme return on investment by increasing acquisition rates, customer loyalty and retention. Serverside is headquartered in London and has offices in New York, Chicago and Auckland. Please visit www.ssgl.com or www.gemalto.com/financial for more information.

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E-mail: Howard.Berg@Gemalto.com

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