BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. has partnered with Barclays to launch the BJ’s Visa Card. The new credit card offers cardholders a faster, more consumer-friendly way to earn BJ’s Bucks, and introduces a number of new, convenient card features that provide additional value to qualified BJ’s Members. Barclays worked closely with BJ’s to develop a card […]

Gemalto and NXP Semiconductors have joined forces and are working on a SIM-enabled near field communications solution based on the Single Wire Protocol (SWP). Both companies will together to define and develop SIM products for SWP-based solutions to ensure interoperability with MIFARE technology as well as other widely deployed contactless protocols. This partnership aims to […]

If you are looking for a way to battle all the spies trying to figure out your most confidential secrets, Transcend recently launched JetFlash 220 USB thumb drives, fully equipped with biometric protection and AES 256-bit encryption technology. Sounds tough to operate, but Plug and Play installation makes working with this thumb drive a breeze. […]

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) has launched its ADCB Flash MasterCard Credit Card with MasterCard® PayPass™. This credit card is reported as the first of its kind as the first contactless credit card in the United Arab Emirates. The card can double as a standard mag-stripe credit card as the bank and MasterCard ad merchants […]

After being at war for several years, the United States has created new and improved identification methods used in the battlefield. One of the new pieces of equipment developed is the HIIDE™ system. HIIDE is an acronym for Hand-held Interagency Identity Detection Equipment and is a biometric identification database through which soldiers can quickly input […]

Foreign tourists to Seoul, in South Korea, will soon be able to take buses and subways as well as visit four of the more popular destinations within the city with a new tourism card. The new service introduced by the city is called the “Seoul Citypass+” and is supported by the Korea Smart Card Company […]

According to the Frost & Sullivan reort, the Japanese smart card market has achieved a highly developed stage, recording a growth rate of 30.5% in 2006, largely contributed by the implementation of various contactless programs in transit and payment applications. There are several rail companies that have issued contactless cards and the Japanese Government is […]

CoreStreet’s PIVMAN System was recently used as an integral part of the July 19 Summer Breeze First Responder Authentication Credential (FRAC) usage demonstration co-hosted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of National Capital Region Coordination (NCRC) and Department of Defense (DoD) Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA). The demonstration […]

Coca-Cola will be partnering with USA Technologies and MasterCard to install a record number of mag stripe and contactless readers in their vending machines throughout several American markets. Coca-Cola hopes to remain the world’s largest non-alcoholic beverage bottler by keeping up with a cashless society. Read the full article at Payments News.   

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected ImageWare Systems to provide the VA with large-scale, agencywide biometric identity management capabilities and enable the agency to produce Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials in support of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12). This deployment is considered one of the largest to date. U.S. Department of […]