Wells Fargo & Company and Visa USA plan to launch an extensive mobile pilot to test consumer mobile payments and services. The pilot has three phases. The first already occurred when a group of Wells Fargo employees tested the use of mobile banking applications in April of this year. The second phase is expected to […]

The MULTOS Consortium announced that UBnics, a provider of smart card operating systems, applications and solutions in South Korea, released its first implementation of MULTOS step/one on the NXP P5SD009 dual interface chip. The UBnics / NXP MULTOS step/one chip comes with 12K of E2PROM programmable memory, sufficient to support a range of applications including […]

Net 1 UEPS Technologies Inc. has been awarded the National Switch and Smart Card Payment System tender by the Central Bank of Ghana. The award was issued based on the vision of the Central Bank of Ghana to provide the Ghanaian financial services industry a new biometrically protected smart card designed to deliver affordable financial […]

Onity has created a new customer-driven electronic locking system, Integra 5, for the education market. The Integra 5 features a client-server architecture, high-speed execution, and great overall security. The Integra 5’s central architecture allows the system administrator to easily apply upgrades and perform system maintenance. Onity Announces New Customer-Driven Electronic Locking System for Education Market […]

Hong Kong’s Beijing Development announced that it plans to invest HK$500 million from its cash reserves to build its smart card and underground railway IT system businesses in the capital, Beijing, and to expand that same system to other cities. The company has already implemented a wide spread smart card scheme in Beijing as part […]

BBVA, in collaboration with Visa, Nokia and Ingenico, anticipate Spain being a hot spot for NFC action. They have started the first commercial initiative in Madrid for contactless payments using a phone through Near Field Communication. There was recently a news report done on the rollout, which can be found right here. Although it is […]

The MorphoAccess™ 500 Series of indoor and outdoor biometric access control terminals is now available from Sagem Morpho. The MA500 Series terminals have dual-core ARM9 microprocessors with multi-thread processing capability and have an internal database storage capacity of up to 50,000 records. The terminals also have a large area optical fingerprint sensor that is FBI […]

McDonald’s restaurants in Canada will begin installing MasterCard’s PayPass readers and chip card terminals in some of its 1,400 restaurants across Canada as early as 2008. McDonald’s Canada announces plans to accept MasterCard® PayPass™ and MasterCard chip cards New payment options will bring greater convenience and speed to McDonald’s customers TORONTO, June 25 – McDonald’s […]

SecuDesktop Pro v2.0 software, which uses SecuGen’s FIPS 201 approved template extraction and matching algorithms has been released by SecuGen. At the core of SecuDesktop Pro is SecuGen’s NIST certified, MINEX-compliant template extraction and matching algorithms that have been tested and approved for use in the U.S. government’s PIV program as defined by the FIPS […]

Commuters will soon be able to tap onto transit with the new Presto card – the first regional fare card for public transit in Canada. Beginning this July, Presto is being introduced on a limited basis in the City of Mississauga. The Presto card will help create a seamless transit network, making it easier for […]