Over the next two months, the Smart Card Alliance will be hosting some events geared toward the financial services and security industries. The first is a webinar designed to help merchants and acquirers adapt from magnetic stripe cards to EMV chip cards. This free webinar, entitled EMV for Merchants and Acquirers: U.S. Migration Considerations, will […]

SmartMetric Inc. has announced its plans to launch a smart card with an integrated fingerprint scanner. This technology will be combined with the EMV chip and will replace the need to use a PIN in the next generation of banking and credit cards. The SmartMetric Fingerprint Card aims to add greater security to banking cards […]

IMS Research has released a new report predicting that global contactless smart card shipments will increase from 950 million in 2010 to 3.5 billion in 2016. According to “The World Market for Smart Cards and Smart Card ICs – 2011 Edition,” contactless bank cards will drive most of the growth – primarily from the People’s […]

Auto-resolution technology provider Adeptra and ValidSoft, a supplier of fraud prevention, authentication and transaction verification solutions for the banking industry, have created a commercial and technology partnership to provide retail banks with worldwide fraud protection. Adeptra and ValidSoft have agreed to pair ValidSoft’s fraud detection capabilities with Adeptra’s product line. These technologies include real-time proximity-based […]

Mercator Advisory Group has launched a new report predicting the mobile payments market will soon become “war zone” fought over by mobile operators, handset manufacturers, payment industry heavyweights, and Silicon Valley giants. Caught in the middle will be merchants, who will have to choose which side they’re on – i.e., which of the many services […]

IronKey announced that it will sell the assets of its data storage hardware business to Imation Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but with the acquisition, the two companies formed a partnership to allow Imation’s customers access to IronKey’s cloud-based security services. With this deal, IronKey will focus on its cloud-based security services […]

Guaranty Bank and Trust Company, a Colorado-based community bank and wholly-owned subsidiary of Guaranty Bancorp, is starting to offer its customers IronKey Trusted Access, a secure browser that helps prevent identity theft, payments fraud and online banking account takeover With Trusted Access, Guaranty Bank protects online business banking customers using secure browsing technology that helps […]