VeriFone and Gemalto have announced a partnership designed to accelerate EMV payment adoption, particularly among U.S. retailers and banks, allow VeriFone to buy Gemalto’s POS solutions business and make Gemalto VeriFone’s preferred wireless module supplier. According to the announcement released by the two, they will jointly pursue new chip card solutions based on the global […]

Children in Aarhus, Denmark are now able to use a contactless payment card in stores throughout the city as a replacement for cash. Called the School Card, it can be topped up by parents or blocked if the card is lost or stolen. Parents can also set daily spending limits and even prevent the acquisition […]

Swedish company Cale Parking Systems is testing an NFC-enabled parking system in Poland based on MIFARE that will include readers, cards and charging stations. The Cale MIFARE system’s pilot project involves two Web terminals accepting contactless payment, one for parking and another for public transport, buses and trams. The terminals complement the larger standard ticketing […]

Dynamic Card Solutions, an Englewood, Colo.-based card provider recently acquired by Datacard Group, has announced that its mobile payments personalization platform now supports Tyfone’s SideTap MicroSD secure memory card for NFC payments. The CardWizard Perso-to-Go platform personalizes at the branch or back office level, cardholder information onto the chip embedded in Tyfone’s MicroSD secure memory […]

Transport for London hopes to have a cross-border contactless transit and payment card in play by 2012 that would support access to transportation services domestically and overseas, according to the American Banker. The agency is already working with several transport operators in the U.S., Europe and Australia to “develop common standards for the technology,” says […]

The Smart Card Alliance, as part of its Leadership, Education and Advancement Program (LEAP), announced that its first international Certified Smart Card Industry Professional (CSCIP) preparation course and exam will be held at the CARTES & IDentification event in Paris. The certification training course and exam will take place at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition […]

Mocapay, a mobile platform for merchants that offers an integrated marketing and sales solution, and eNational Payments, a provider of mobile and contactless electronic commerce and payment processing services, have implemented a mobile wallet driven by Mocapay technology along with eNational’s location-based platform at select Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurant locations. The test launch with Maggiano’s […]

Contactless technology is slowly making inroads in the United Arab Emirates, with banks having issued thousands of contactless debit and credit cards. Yet, citizens often aren’t even aware they’re using these types of cards. For example, HSBC in the UAE recently issued 40,000 contactless debit cards equipped that can be used in approximately 100 outlets […]

A yet-to-be named Israeli bank is expected to launch a combined NFC and mobile bar code payments system by the end of this year that will allow customers to make payments at the point-of-sale using either an NFC-enabled phone, a sticker attached to their current phone or a 2D barcode. Near Field Communications World reports […]

India-based library chain JustBooks is using RFID technology to automate its inventory management processes. JustBooks’ more than 160,000 library items are all tagged with UPM Raflatac ShortDipole RFID tags converted into custom book labels by India’s systems integrator Great Eastern Impex. JustBooks embeds RFID tags into each member card and every library item. Customers use […]