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Global Smart Card Industry - Future Outlook (2007)

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: RNCOS
Published: November 2006
Product Code: R459-829
Description
RNCOS’ “Global Smart Card Industry - Future Outlook (2007)” report provides extensive research and objective analysis on the Global Smart Card Market, its performance and its future prospects. It helps the clients to analyze the trends and developments in global Smart Card industry as well as gain exclusive insights of industry in eight important countries namely US, Canada, Brazil, UK, Russia, France, India, China, South Korea, and South Africa.

The report contains detailed data on Global as well as Country-specific smart card markets i.e. smart card industry value, smart cards shipments, application of smart cards in the Financial and Telecom market etc. It helps the clients to understand the driving forces of smart card industry along with the detailed future opportunities.

Key Findings
  • There is a huge demand for smart card across the world, as it’s widely used in almost every sector. The main demand driver is the telecom market.
  • The Latin American and the Asia pacific smart card markets have potential to grow above the existing rate but the high initial cost will be a limiting factor.
  • Smooth integration with the existing systems is going to be the key for success in the nascent smart card markets. Of the various countries across the world, South Africa is seen as a high opportunity region.
  • The rapid technological developments in smart cards are going to further strengthen its market. The envisioned multiple uses of a single smart card will enhance its value, thus, further boosting it sales.
  • The future opportunities are immense particularly in Mobile sector, Banking Sector, and Biometrics.
Key Issues and Facts Analyzed
  • What are the trends in global smart card market with respect to market value, Shipments, and various application sectors, such as Banking, Telecom etc?
  • What is the situation of smart card industry in specific countries mentioned above?
  • What is the potential of smart cards if they are used with Biometrics Technology?
  • Which are the top ten smart card companies?
  • What are the driving forces for the smart card industry?
  • What are the Challenges associated?
  • What are the future opportunities for smart card?
Key Players

This section provides the overview, key facts, financials, and stock performance of several players like STMicroelectronics, Infineon Technologies, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Oberthur Card Systems. Research Methodology Used

Information Sources


Information has been sourced from namely, books, newspapers, trade journals, and white papers, industry portals, government agencies, trade associations, monitoring industry news and developments, and through access to access to more than 3000 paid databases.

Analysis Methods

The analysis methods include the following: Ratio Analysis, Historical Trend Analysis, Linear Regression Analysis using software tools, Judgmental Forecasting and Cause and Effect Analysis.
Table of Contents

1. Analyst View

2. Research Overview

3. Industry Overview

3.1 Technological Developments

3.1.1 Types of Smart Card

3.1.2 Smart Card Software Platforms

3.2 Global Smart Card Industry

3.2.1 Smart Card Industry by Industry Sector

3.2.2 Smart Card Applications

3.2.3 Smart Card Industry by Region

3.2.4 Smart Card Vendors

3.2.5 Smart Card Standards

4. Geographical Spread

4.1 North America

4.1.1 US

4.1.2 Canada

4.2 Latin America

4.2.1 Brazil

4.3 Europe

4.3.1 UK

4.3.2 Russia

4.3.3 France

4.3.4 Germany

4.4 Africa

4.4.1 South Africa

4.5 Middle East & Gulf

4.5.1 Qatar

4.5.2 Oman

4.5.3 Saudi Arabia

4.6 Asia Pacific

4.6.1 India

4.6.2 China

4.6.3 South Korea

4.6.4 Malaysia

4.6.5 Japan

4.6.6 Australia

5. Industry Analysis

5.1 Success Factors

5.2 Opportunities

5.3 Challenges

6. Key Players

6.1 Gemalto

6.2 Giesecke & Devrient

6.3 Oberthur Card Systems

6.4 STMicroelectronics

6.5 Infineon Technologies

6.6 Hitachi Limited

7. Appendix

7.1 Identity Cards Act 2006 of UK




List of Figures:




Figure 3-1: Typical Components of Java Smart Card Application

Figure 3-2: Global - Smart Card Shipments (in Billion Units), 2005-2011

Figure 3-3: Global - Break up of Smart Card Application by Industry Sector (%), 2006

Figure 3-4: Global - Shipment of E-passports (in Million Units), 2005-2008

Figure 3-5: Global - Contactless Smart Card Market (in Million Units), 2005-2010

Figure 3-6: Global - Smart Card Readers and Chipsets Market (in Million US$), 2005-2010

Figure 3-7: Global - Break up of Smart Card Industry by Region (%), 2006

Figure 4-1: North America - Growth of Smart Cards (in Million Units), 2005-2010

Figure 4-2: US - Population (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-3: US - Forecast for Number of Passports (in Million Units), 2006-2010

Figure 4-4: US - Healthcare Fraud (in Billion US$), 2005 & 2006

Figure 4-5: Latin America - Smart Card Shipments (in Billion Units), 2005-2010

Figure 4-6: Brazil - Smart Card Revenue (in Million US$), 2005-2011

Figure 4-7: Brazil - Smart Card Market by Sector (%), 2006

Figure 4-8: Brazil - Forecast of GSM Subscribers (in Million), 2006-2010

Figure 4-9: UK - Total Card Frauds (in Million US$), 2004 & 2005

Figure 4-10: UK - Population (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-11: UK - Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-12: UK - Health Smart Cards (in Thousand Units), Jul-05 & Dec-05

Figure 4-13: Russia - Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2002-2006

Figure 4-14: France - Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2001-2010

Figure 4-15: France - Population (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-16: France - Break up of Bank Cards by EMV Certification (%), 2005

Figure 4-17: Germany - Payment Cards by EMV Standard (%), 2004

Figure 4-18: Germany - Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-19: South Africa - Expected Growth of Smart Cards (in Million Units), 2005-2010

Figure 4-20: South Africa - Population (in Million), 2005 & 2006

Figure 4-21: South Africa - Mobile Penetration Rate (%) 2004 & 2005

Figure 4-22: South Africa - Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-23: Middle East - Number of Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2002-2005

Figure 4-24: Middle East - Top Countries by Number of Subscribers (in Million), 2005

Figure 4-25: Middle East - Top Countries by Year-wise Subscribers Growth (in Million), 2004-05

Figure 4-26: Qatar - Population (in Thousand), 2006-2010

Figure 4-27: Oman - Population (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-28: Saudi Arabia - Population (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-29: Saudi Arabia - Number of Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2004 & 2005

Figure 4-30: India - Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2003-2005

Figure 4-31: India - Smart Card Market Value (in Million US$), 2005-2009

Figure 4-32: India - Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-33: India - Population (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-34: China - Annual Shipments of IC Cards (in Million Units), 2000-2005

Figure 4-35: China - Mobile Phone Subscriber Base (in Million), 2004 & 2005

Figure 4-36: China - Smart Card National IDs and Population (in Million), 2004-2010

Figure 4-37: China - Mobile Phone Subscriber Base (in Million), 2006-2008

Figure 4-38: China - Forecast for Annual Shipments of IC Cards (in Billion Units), 2006-2010

Figure 4-39: South Korea - Percentage of Unit Shipments by Application (2005 & 2008)

Figure 4-40: South Korea - Mobile Banking Customers (in Million), 2003 & 2004

Figure 4-41: Malaysia - Population (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-42: Malaysia - Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-43: Japan - Share of Smart Card Credit Cards to Total Credit Cards (%), 2004-2007

Figure 4-44: Japan - E-passports (in Million), March 2007

Figure 4-45: Japan - Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-46: Australia - Population (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 4-47: Australia - Mobile Subscribers (in Million), 2005-2010

Figure 5-1: Global - GSM Smart Card Market by Region (%), 2005 & 2008

Figure 5-2: Global - Banking (Financial and Loyalty) Smart Card Market (in Billion), 2005 & 2008

Figure 5-3: Global - Shipment of E-passports (in Million Units), 2005-2008

Figure 5-4: Global - Biometrics Market (in Billion US$), 2006-2010

Figure 6-1: STMicroelectronics - Stock Performance

Figure 6-2: Infineon Technologies - Stock Performance

Figure 6-3: Hitachi Limited - Stock Performance




List of Tables:




Table 3-1: Smart Card Chip Comparison

Table 3-2: Global - Forecast for Smart Card Shipments by Industry Sector (in Million), 2006

Table 3-3: Various Smart Card Applications by Industry Sector

Table 3-4: Global - Shipments of Smart Cards by Region (%), 2005

Table 3-5: Smart Card Positioning Matrix

Table 3-6: Smart Card Semiconductor / Memory Companies

Table 3-7: Smart Card Infrastructure Companies

Table 3-8: Smart Card Middleware, Software & Hardware Companies

Table 3-9: Smart Card Technology Service Companies

Table 4-1: France - Types of Health Smart Card

Table 4-2: South Korea - Hanaro and Mybi Smart Card in Busan, 2003

Table 4-3: South Korea - K-cash Smart Cards in Gim-Hae and Chun-cheon Provinces, 2004

Table 4-4: South Korea - Progress Report on Interoperable Transport Smart Cards (2005-2007)

Table 4-5: Japan - Types of E-Money Smart Card

Table 5-1: Global - E-passport Implementation TimeLine by Country

Table 6-1: Gemalto - Key Financials (in Million US$), Jan-June 2005 & Jan-June 2006

Table 6-2: Giesecke & Devrient - Key Financials (in Million US$), 2000-2005

Table 6-3: Oberthur Card Systems - Key Financials (in Million US$), 2000-2005

Table 6-4: STMicroelectronics - Key Financials (in Million US$), 2003-2005

Table 6-5: Infineon Technologies - Key Financials (in Million US$), 2003-2005

Table 6-6: Hitachi Limited - Key Financials (in Million US$), 2004-2006

Table 7-1: Total Resource Costs of providing Passports and ID Cards to British and Irish Citizens Resident in the UK (in Million US$), Oct. 2006 to Oct. 2016

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