IMS Research has released a new report projecting that the number of payment and banking smart cards in Brazil will reach 450 million by the end of 2016. According to the report, Brazil is easily the largest market for payment and banking cards in South America, and second largest in the Americas. The country is […]

Hypercom USA, a payment terminal manufacturer and secure software developer, has announced that it has formally changed its corporate name to Equinox Payments LLC. In addition to selling new products under the Equinox brand, the company will continue to manufacture, sell and support all payment terminals and peripherals previously offered in the U.S. by Hypercom, […]

Datacard Group announced a new single-step color printing technology available for the Datacard MX1000 and Datacard MX2000 card issuance systems that is designed to provide financial institutions, government organizations and other card issuers an economical way to print high-quality color images. The single-step color printing technology is suited for card issuers with mid-volume card programs […]

Coke vs. Pepsi. Windows vs. Mac. Visa vs. MasterCard. These well-known rivalries are good for consumers because they create healthy competition. For many years, this seemed to be the case for smart card operating systems. The debate and battle was quite heated, but today, there’s little talk about the smart card OS. What happened the […]

Financial services solutions provider Advanced Bank Solutions is the latest company to team up with IronKey to offer the Trusted Access Platform to its clients. The IronKey Trusted Access Platform delivers online banking security in a multi-layered approach to mitigate the risk of online banking fraud. With it, banks can stop criminal attacks from malware, […]

A Verizon report has found that businesses are still struggling to comply with payment card security standards, putting consumers’ confidential information at risk. According to the Verizon Payment Card Industry Compliance Report, most businesses that accept credit or debit cards, or both, continue to struggle to achieve and maintain compliance with the Payment Card Industry […]

Visa Europe, in partnership with Emue Technologies and NagraID Security, has added the CodeSure Matrix Display card to its CodeSure card portfolio. The Matrix Display card is built on the CodeSure multi-channel authentication system and due to its dot matrix display and soft touch keypad, can be customized for local language and usability preferences. The […]