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On Saturday 29th September, three brave USC employees embarked on a challenge that would test their grit and determination – Tough Mudder! Participating in this event wasn’t only a great team building exercise but went towards raising money for the Help the Hero foundation.The training began months in advance to mentally and physically prepare the ..

Are you attending the Smartex Transport Card Forum on the 25th and 26th of September this year? Paul May our Commercial Director will be present on the 25th so make sure you stop him for a chat!For those who don’t know, the Transport Card Forum will be explaining, debating and reviewing the current status, challenges and future plans affecting the ..

Love is in the air at Universal Smart Cards, as we would like to congratulate Elizabeth and Peter Burke on their marriage.On Friday the 10th of August, USC attended a wedding for our very own Internal Sales Administrator, Elizabeth Burke. Despite the weather not playing the part on the day, it didn’t stop it being as spectacular as it was. The wedd..

Universal Smart Cards is delighted to announce that we have become an Indirect Solution Provider (ISP) of Entrust Datacard Access Control solutions, part of only a small number of authorized Entrust Datacard resellers in the UK!Entrust Datacard create technologies enabling trusted identities and secure transactions on-site, in the cloud and on a de..

Universal Smart Cards would like to introduce our latest two additions to the sales team, Ryan Grace and Cayleigh Entwistle. They will be working in our new business team and will be responsible for generating leads and interacting with new business clients.Cayleigh in her spare time, likes shopping, socialising with her family and friends and live..

On June 2nd, 2020, NXP announced the arrival of their latest addition to the MIFARE® DESFire family of products, MIFARE DESFire EV3.As the fourth generation of NXP’s proven contactless MIFARE DESFire portfolio, the latest evolution of this chip enables a new array of smart city services, with enhanced performance, higher-level security features and..

Universal Smart Cards would like to introduce Lee Osgood to our Production Team based at our Technical Centre in Havant, Hampshire. Lee will be focusing on processing cards, fobs and other smart items for personalisation, which involves printing designs & personal details, encoding and adding security features to the products.In his spare time, Lee..

Universal Smart Cards is proud to announce that we have partnered with DIGISEQ! DIGISEQ is a payment enabler who are able to integrate payment into almost anything, so, here at Universal Smart Cards, we have partnered with them to offer a complete solution!DIGISEQ has been formed by a group of seasoned payment professionals to address the complexit..

Universal would like to introduce and welcome Richard Catterall to our marketing team in the Lancashire office. Richard will be focusing on creating content for both the UK and US websites, creating blogs and supporting our marketing assistant with our social media channels.Richard has a great passion for sport, especially football and cricket. He ..

We are happy to announce that Universal Smart Cards are now a member of the MULTOS consortium.MULTOS is a highly robust, industry backed high security smart card platform delivering a simple and innovate a solution to the world’s leading card and e-passport issuers. With over 1 billion smart cards and devices issued across the world, thousands of i..