ACI Worldwide, a New York-based provider of electronic payments software, has partnered with Dutch company Bell ID to license Bell’s smart card management solutions to financial markets and retailers. ACI intends to market and license the ANDiS product suite that includes a card and application management system. ANDiS supports the life cycle phases of smart […]

The CBORD Group has formed Integrated Security Solutions Group designed to focus on the company’s growing security business. The new sector is expected to support the deployment of CBORD’s growing catalog of security hardware and software. Mathew Birnbaum, Integrated Security Solutions Group manager, will lead the new business unit. Integrated Security is intended to be […]

INSIDE Contactless and Dynamic Card Solutions are partnering to speed up the deployment of the new breed of contactless cards, such as mobile payment stickers and mobile payment peripheral devices, that will allow banks to be able to instantly personalize and activate the cards or stickers based on INSIDE`s MicroPass contactless and dual interface payment […]

MasterCard PayPass will soon double for a bus ticket in Liverpool as Stagecoach Merseyside rolls out the new payments technology for its 200 buses. The launch is in partnership with RBS WorldPay as well as credit card processing company Commidea. “In the same way that Chip and PIN has revolutionized the way shoppers pay, contactless […]

The European Vending Association has published its cashless position paper which sets out the requirements needed to increase the uptake of contactless payment systems in vending machines. The paper is targeted at credit card and banking institutions. Through this paper, the EVA says it hopes to break the deadlock with banks on transaction costs and […]

INSIDE Contactless has rolled out its MicroPass 6000 dual-interface payment processor designed as an EMV-compliant platform that will offer fast time to market for card manufacturers and issuers. It provides both contact and contactless operations, expanding the company’s multi-brand offerings. The dual-interface platform is designed to meet the high-volume requirements of EMV markets in Europe, […]

“Sharing a Wealth of Knowledge” was the theme of the recent Users Group Conference of The CBORD Group, a provider of one-card systems, food and nutrition management technology, and integrated security solutions for universities, health care facilities, and more. Held in Baltimore, the conference focused on providing educational, training and networking opportunities to the nearly […]

TranZfinity, a Carlsbad, Calif.-based company that provides NFC-enabled devices, has launched a mobile POS solution using NFC phones for merchants who require mobility in their transactions with consumers, such as street vendors or restaurant delivery services. Using an existing mobile phone along with TranZfinity’s Myztro, a smartcard reader that can attach to a cell phone […]

Cubic Transportation Systems, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Cubic Corporation, and Miami-Dade Transit have launched the agency’s new EASY Card automated fare collection system for its 22 Metrorail stations and nearly 900 buses. The new system was fully operational just 15 months after the contract was first awarded in June, 2008. The new contactless card […]

INSIDE Contactless, a French manufacturer of contactless chip technologies, has launched a partnership with Adelya, a software-as-a-service company specializing in contactless and mobile loyalty and relationship programs, to enable consumers to conduct retail loyalty, ticketing, ID and other transactions using the phones they already have. INSIDE is providing Adelya with the technology to transform mobile […]