/en en /en/group/journalist/press-release/thales-leverages-new-technologies-boost-biometric-matching Paris La Défense – January 20th, 2020. Thales, world leader in digital security, is using innovative assets from the aerospace industry to boost its Biometric Matching System (BMS) performance while reducing the environmental impact. The BMS is the heart of government digital identification systems. Introducing interoperability with its border management system requires multiple processing of hundreds of millions of biometric database records within 1 to 2 seconds. To perform data comparison at this scale Gemalto, a Thales company, is applying commercial off-the-shelf Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology, originally designed for ultra-low latency applications in high performance computing (HPC) environments in financial and scientific industry, which is compatible with any server and cloud. 20 Jan 2020 2729224 /en/portugal/press_release/thales-completes-acquisition-gemalto-become-global-leader-digital-identity <p class="Default" style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="color:black"><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">Completed in 15 months, the acquisition of Gemalto by Thales for €4.8 billion creates a Group on a new scale and a global leader in digital identity and security employing 80,000 people. </span></span></span></span></span></b></p> 02 Apr 2019 2728509 /en/group/journalist/press_release/commission-elections-philippines-selects-gemaltos-biometrics <p><b>Electoral commissions have the delicate task of maintaining reliable and correct electoral registers as part of the execution of the election. To help ensure secure and accurate voter verification before issuing ballot slips, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in the Philippines has appointed Gemalto, a Thales company, and Nextix as technology partners to develop, deploy and support the Biometric Voter Verification System for the 2019 Philippines National and Local Election. The aim is to automate the verification of voters through the use of their biometrics information.</b></p> 13 May 2019 2728474 /en/group/journalist/press_release/canada-enhances-public-safety-gemalto-fingerprint-identification <p>&nbsp;<b>Gemalto, a Thales company, will implement the Canadian Department of National Defence’s (DND) first Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to increase security and reliability in the collection and verification of fingerprint records.</b></p> 09 May 2019 2728473 /en/group/investors/press-release/thales-updates-its-2019-financial-objectives-following-integration Thales published today the update of its 2019 financial objectives following the integration of Gemalto, completed on 1st April 2019, and the disposal of its General Purpose Hardware Security Module (GP HSM) business, deconsolidated since 1 January 2019 and finalised on 7 June. 13 Jun 2019 2728271 /en/group/press-release/vivatech-2019-thales-receives-global-innovator-award-and-invites-visitors-be Clarivate Analytics will recognise Thales as a Derwent Top 100 çÛÁ¦ÊÓƵ Innovator at VivaTech 2019. Thales will highlight the crucial role of artificial intelligence in decisive moments through 40 panel discussions and demonstrations. Patrice Caine, Chairman and CEO of the Group, will be interviewed by Harriet Agnew, Paris Correspondent at the Financial Times, during the CEO forum. With the acquisition of Gemalto, Thales now boasts a portfolio of 20,500 patents, including over 400 filed in 2018 07 May 2019 2728085 /en/group/journalist/press_release/gemalto-shares-will-be-delisted-29-may-2019 <p style="margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="color:black"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Thales and Gemalto jointly announce today that, at their request, Euronext has confirmed</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%"> that the ordinary shares in the capital of Gemalto will be delisted from Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Paris effective on 29 May 2019. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> 23 Apr 2019 2728021 /en/countries-americas/brazil/press_release/acquisition-gemalto-thales-will-quadruple-its-size-latin <p>With the finalization of Gemalto acquisition, Thales becomes a world leader in IoT and data security. Thales in Latin America now counts approx. 2500 employees from the previous 600.</p> 02 Apr 2019 2727950 /en/group/journalist/press-release/thales-completes-acquisition-gemalto-become-global-leader-digital With Gemalto, Thales will cover the entire critical decision chain in a digital world, from data generation via sensors, to real-time decision support. 02 Apr 2019 2727944 /en/group/investors/press-release/thales-sets-28-march-2019-end-date-acceptance-period-its-offer Thales has decided to waive the Offer Condition with respect to the antitrust and foreign investment Regulatory Clearances in Russia 14 Mar 2019 2727854