CardBASE Technologies has signed an agreement with French company Welcome which establishes a partnership for the deployment of multi-applications smart card systems worldwide.

CardBASE a provider of multi-application smart card management solutions, has joined the RSA Secured Partner Program to support interoperability between its ChipCERT PKI solution and RSA Keon digital certificate management software.

At Cartes 2001 in Paris, Dublin company CardBASE announced a strategic OEM relationship with UbiQ Inc, to bring together the CardBASE multi-applications smart card management system and UbiQ's suite of personalisation software.

More than 50 more IT workers are to lose their jobs because of restructuring plans at two separate firms.