As the countdown to this year's CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS continues, the organisers of the show have announced the finalists for this year's SESAMES Awards.This year's awards categories are:Identification/ID cards/Health/eGovernmentIT Security/Trusted Internet/AuthenticationTransportationBanking/Payment/eTransactionsMobile communicationsRetail/LoyaltyManufacturing & testsConnected objects applicationsJoint initiativeDiscoveryFinalists of particular interest to the security document industry are:Emperor Technology – Mobile Identity Verifier; NISS Group – Nano-ID; Verifone – Biometric capable payment terminals (Identification/ID cards/Health/eGovernment category)Avea – SIM-On Secure Authentication Service; Infineon Technologies – OPTIGA Trust E – enabling the IoT; Morpho – Mobile eTrusted Identity Services (Mobile eTIS); Oberthur Technologies – Automatic Authentication of the picture personalisation (IT Security/Trusted Internet/Authentication category)Giesecke & Devrient – Convego CloudPay; Famoco – Cryptomiles; International smart card – QiCard Biometric-payment card for distribution of aid to refugees (Joint Initiative category).The winners will receive their SESAMES Award in Paris on Tuesday 17 November 2015.

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