Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Alliance hosting webinar on EMV in Brazil, Mexico

Monday, November 30, 2009

The Smart Card Alliance Latin American will host a series of webinars discussing a report on EMV deployments in Brazil and Mexico.

The Alliance and Visa Inc. commissioned a report on why Mexico and Brazil are deploying EMV systems. Reducing payments fraud is the top driver for issuers and acquirers to adopt EMV/chip in Brazil and Mexico. Other important findings: respondents are also driven to adopt EMV/chip cards in order to position themselves as innovators and technology leaders, and they all expect to have 100 percent of their credit and debit card portfolios migrated to EMV/chip within one to five years.


SCALA and Visa commissioned First Annapolis Consulting to survey issuers and acquirers in Brazil and Mexico on the state of EMV migration and the long-term growth of the EMV market. The resulting report, “EMV Migration Study and Market Analysis on Mexico and Brazil,” is available for purchase by both Smart Card Alliance members and non-members by visiting here.

The organizations will host English, Portuguese and Spanish language webinars on the study findings. The English language webinar will take place on December 1st at at 11:00 A.M. eastern standard time, while the Portuguese and Spanish webinars will take place on December 8 at 11:00 A.M. eastern standard time and 12:00 P.M. eastern standard time, respectively. Registration for the webinars is available here[end] 

On Oct. 26 Oberthur Technologies will host a webinar geared toward U.S. banking executives entitled “Next Gen Secure Payment Solutions.”

The one-hour webinar will take place at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST and will cover three issues in the banking payments industry surrounding migration from mag-stripe cards to EMV; the value of NFC and how to model it; and benefits and strategies of online authentication.

read more »

Mexico’s Federal Tolling Authority - Caminos y Puentes Federales de Ingresos y Servicios Conexos (CAPUFE) - has awarded a contract to system integrator Axiompass to install a toll-free system for residents using Sirit RFID readers.

read more »

The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) and GS1 US are co-sponsoring a webinar on Dec. 14 to share findings from a recent study to assess the impact of RFID for apparel and footwear companies.

read more »

Over the next two months, the Smart Card Alliance will be hosting some events geared toward the financial services and security industries.

The first is a webinar designed to help merchants and acquirers adapt from magnetic stripe cards to EMV chip cards. This free webinar, entitled EMV for Merchants and Acquirers: U.S. Migration Considerations, will take place on Thursday, October 6 at 1 p.m. EDT.

read more »

The Smart Card Alliance is hosting a webinar entitled, Smart Health ID Cards: Addressing Challenges with Patient Identity Management and Authentication.

Accurately identifying and authenticating patients are a problem for hospitals, other health care providers and health care payers that impact administrative efficiency, revenue collection, legislative compliance and patient quality of care.

read more »

IMS Research has released a new report projecting that the number of payment and banking smart cards in Brazil will reach 450 million by the end of 2016.

read more »