MAOSCO is the trading company for the MULTOS Consortium, a group of international blue chip companies dedicated to the development and promotion of the MULTOS technology. MULTOS is the most robust, industry-backed high security smart card platform, delivering simplicity and innovation to the world's leading card and e-passport issuers. With over 1 billion issued smart cards across 45 countries, thousands of issuers, including national governments, banks, corporate enterprises and transit authorities have taken advantage of the high security, multi application platform for their deployment programmes. A wide range of applications including, Chip & PIN payment, contactless payment, authentication, digital identity, biometrics, loyalty and mass-transit ticketing may implemented, and co-reside, using a MULTOS powered chip.