Motorola has joined Via Licensing Corp.’s joint licensing program for patents essential to NFC usage. The program is designed to provide fair and convenient access to essential patents through a single license agreement. Among the applications covered by this program are NFC–compliant mobile phones, consumer electronic devices, and commercial systems such as payment processing terminals, […]

Gemalto has been tapped by InterSwitch, a Nigerian provider of secure electronic payment solutions, to deploy its Dexxis Instant Issuance process to speed up the country’s EMV migration of 30 million mag stripe cards. The Gemalto solution enables InterSwitch’s 25 bank members to do on-the-spot personalization and delivery of chip cards to their customers and […]

Article One Partners LLC, an online community that works to validate or invalidate patents by offering cash compensation, says it has uncovered prior art in the JSA Technologies patent that covers the account to account transfer of funds between networks via the Internet. That could invalidate the patent that impacts campus card programs that use […]

Administrators of career colleges and schools can now automate historically manual operations and integrate them with the processing of payments using technology from Heartland Payment Systems in partnership with Training Masters, a consulting and training company for post-secondary career schools. Called Heartland Smart Ops, the Web-based, integrated school management system can handle financial, admissions and […]

The four members of the Smart Payment Association account for “the vast majority of the payment smart cards market,” more than 580 million, according to a survey released by the association. That figure corresponds to a 39% year-on-year growth spurred by EMV migration, the survey points out. The organization was founded in 2004 by Gemalto, […]

In what is being billed as one of the largest NFC pilots so far, Citi is making mobile phone payments available in India in collaboration with Nokia, Vodafone, MasterCard and VIVOtech. Some 5,000 people will participate in Citi’s Tap and Pay Bangalore trial. The pilot will include Nokia’s NFC-enabled 6212 classic phone. Vodafone is the […]

German smart card provider Multicard has launched a new contactless and dual interface microcontroller application that can combine different high-frequency contactless technologies on a single IC. The new card uses a single processor for both a LEGIC applet and the MIFARE technology from NXP to enable the use of a single identification credential in different […]

Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, N.J., and campus card solutions provider CardSmith, Doylestown, Penn., have agreed to a multi-year contract renewal of the company’s campus card-services, which includes managing the school’s multi-application Fairleigh 1Card at its Teaneck and Madison, N.J. campuses. The card features a prepaid flexible spending account, 1Card Cash, that students, faculty and staff […]

Barclaycard, a UK payments provider, has signed an agreement with French loyalty solutions supplier Welcome Real-time to develop the software that will enable the bank’s customers to benefit from a retailer rewards program. “This scheme will enable up to ten million of our card holders to be rewarded when using their Barclaycard to purchase goods […]

HSBC Bank A.S. based in Turkey is launching its new contactless MasterCard PayPass products based around On Track Innovations technology. Called Advantage Hizz (Fast in Turkish), initial orders for contactless payment devices such as key fobs and smart stickers have already been placed with OTI. On top of the traditional credit card form factor, HSBC […]