Last updated: August 25, 2026
July 31, 2026
Futurex HSMs are certified for Cartes Bancaires (CB), providing banks, issuers, acquirers, and payment processors operating in France with a validated platform to meet the requirements of the country's domestic card payment network.
For organizations operating across multiple markets, that certification carries an additional advantage. Futurex complies with Cartes Bancaires, PCI PTS HSM v4, Bancontact, AusPayNet AS 2805, GBIC, and other regional and global standards. Customers can standardize more of their payment cryptography on a common HSM platform rather than deploying separate infrastructure for each market.
What Cartes Bancaires Certification Means
Cartes Bancaires is France's domestic card payment network, with security requirements governing the cryptographic infrastructure used throughout its payment ecosystem. CB certification validates HSM hardware and firmware against requirements established for cryptographic operations within the network.
For Futurex customers, this means the same cryptographic platform used for global payment operations can support CB-regulated workloads in France, including PIN processing, payment key generation and management, key blocks, EMV operations, and remote key loading.
One HSM Platform for French and Global Payment Operations
Meeting a regional certification requirement should not require organizations to create another silo of cryptographic infrastructure.
Futurex's Excrypt HSMs support payment and general-purpose cryptographic workloads on the same hardware foundation. At the same time, CryptoHub provides centralized orchestration, key management, policy enforcement, and reporting across physical, virtual, and cloud HSM environments.
For French and multinational payment organizations, this provides several practical advantages:
- Simplified deployment in France: CB-certified HSM technology provides the validated foundation required for cryptographic operations within the Cartes Bancaires ecosystem.
- One platform across markets: Support CB requirements alongside PCI PTS HSM v4, and other regional payment standards without maintaining separate HSM platforms for each market.
- Centralized payment key management: Manage key lifecycle operations, policies, reporting, and audit requirements consistently across payment environments.
- Greater infrastructure efficiency: Consolidate workloads using isolated virtual HSMs rather than dedicating separate physical appliances to individual applications or business units.
- Built for cryptographic change: Native support for post-quantum algorithms and a crypto-agile architecture provide a path for adopting new cryptographic standards as payment requirements evolve.
Supporting the Modernization of Payment Cryptography in France
Payment infrastructure continues to evolve across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, but the requirements for protecting payment keys remain stringent. Futurex enables organizations operating in France to meet Cartes Bancaires requirements while adopting the same scalable cryptographic architecture used across their broader payment infrastructure.
The result is a simpler approach to regional compliance: meet the requirements of the French payment ecosystem without creating another isolated cryptographic environment to manage.
About Futurex
For over 40 years, Futurex has been an award-winning leader and innovator in the encryption market, delivering uncompromising enterprise-grade data security solutions. Over 15,000 organizations worldwide trust Futurex to provide groundbreaking PQC-ready hardware security modules, key management, PKI and CA, data protection, and cloud HSM solutions. Futurex is headquartered outside of San Antonio, Texas, with regional offices worldwide and over a dozen data centers across five continents. Futurex delivers unmatched support for its clients’ mission-critical data encryption and key management requirements.
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