The CBORD Group, an Ithaca, N.Y. provider of campus card and integrated security solutions, has added two off-campus payment partners, Roger Williams University, Bristol, R.I. and Stonehill College, Easton, Mass. Both schools will utilize CBORD and UGryd, the company’s proprietary central server transaction solution, to improve transaction times and merchant services for their off-campus programs. […]

CHARGE Anywhere, a Plainfield, N.J. provider of mobile payment solutions and a Forum Nokia member, has launched version 2.0 of its mobile payment software to allow an NFC-enabled Nokia phone to accept PayPass and Paywave contactless payments. Dr. Thami Smires, chief technology officer at CHARGE Anywhere, will introduce the solution in a joint presentation with […]

Campus card services provider CardSmith has launched its new Campus Cash program in the Boston metro area that enables students from the 10 colleges and universities serviced by CardSmith to use their prepaid spending account on their ID Card to make purchases at a network of accepting locations. Participating off-campus businesses in Boston, Cambridge and […]

The Internet of Things will be a key topic at Cartes & IDentification 2009 in Paris Nov. 17-19. This new event is expected to provide attendees an opportunity to view future applications related to mobile payments, home automation, remote management and geo-location. The Internet of Things is expected to cover the European Casagras project, an […]

NXP Semiconductors’ SmartMX contact security chip has been chosen by the Egyptian government to power its Family Card, a welfare program which offers subsidies on goods such as food to low-income families. The joint project, run by the Ministry of Social Solidarity and the Ministry of Administrative Development, is working with Egyptian card manufacturer Misr […]

The launch of the ORCA (One Regional Card for All) transit system in Seattle earlier this year will also eventually eliminate the free rides that some University of Washington students had enjoyed. In the past, they had a U-PASS sticker, which they obtained from the university and which enabled them to ride buses to and […]

Dynamic Card Solutions, an Englewood, Colo.-based provider of instant issuance solutions, has partnered with Ontario-based Threshold Financial Technologies to give financial institutions access to Dynamic’s CardWizard software. Threshold provides payment processing, ATM and card issuing solutions to more than 65 financial institutions throughout Canada. This new partnership allows Threshold’s card issuing clients to transition from […]

Singapore electronic payment provider NETS has launched a new contactless card called FlashPay, a stored-value card that can be used for public transport, car parks and at more than 2,500 retailers. NETS currently has 37,000 merchant partners with some 2,500 of them already FlashPay-enabled. The card is designed for small-value payments. CEPAS-enabled, the FlashPay card […]

No student ID card, no printing, no exceptions. Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. recently implemented a new printing policy in its library that forces students to use their ID cards when they send jobs to the library’s printers. “If students did not have their student ID card then they were not able to print,” said […]

Visa Canada has chosen the winter Olympic Games, taking place next February and March in Vancouver, to shine the spotlight on its contactless debit card. Visa is a major sponsor of the games and its credit, debit and prepaid cards will be the only ones accepted at Olympic venues. “There’s an opportunity for Canada to […]