The SESAMES Awards, which are held in conjunction with the CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS show, has honoured innovations in the fields of identification, mobility and secure payment solutions at this year's show.A total of 11 winners were announced at the awards ceremony in Paris, France.As this year is the 20th anniversary of the competition, a GOLDEN SESAMES was also awarded, for the innovation that most impressed the judges.The winners were:Best identification application – NISS Group with Nano-IDBest IT security solution and GOLDEN SESAMES award- Infineon Technologies with OPTIGA Trust E – enabling the IoTBest transportation application – Oberthur Technologies with cityGo Ticket CIPURSE LBest banking and payment application – Spire Payments with Spire Payments/Wirecard/Bijlipay, and Indian Overseas bank's mPOS initiativeBest mobile security solution – Oberthur Technologies with OT Flying mPOS powered by MobeewaveBest retail solution – Verifone with Verifone Cloud POSBest manufacturing and tests product – Emperor Technology with 3D multi-color cardBest connected objects applications – Oberthur Technologies with EMV Cybersecurity by OTBest joint initiative – QiCard and International Smart Card with QiCard Biometric-payment card for the distribution of aid to refugeesDiscovery – Famoco with OtherCoin.

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