NCR Corporation introduced one of the world’s first contactless ATM environments, working with MasterCard and ING Bank Slaski to bring the new technology to customers in Poland. This pilot program was launched in Katowice and Warsaw, enabling ING customers in Poland to quickly and easily withdraw cash from an ATM without needing to insert their […]

Quatro Card Technology, a Canada-based full-line card manufacturer, has purchased the Atlantic Zeiser CHIPLINE high-speed RFID and smart card contactless personalization system to provide high-volume personalization of contactless RFID and smart cards, and to address the fast-growing EMV market. CHIPLINE combines electrical and drop-on-demand graphical personalization in one fully integrated system, rather than requiring separate […]

While mobile payments continue to proliferate, a new startup is examining the use of biometric payments. PayTango, created by four students from Carnegie Mellon University, promises quick and easy payments through using fingerprints to identify and authenticate transactions. Soon-to-graduate students Brian Groudan, Kelly Lau-Kee, Umang Patel and Christian Reyes came up with the idea through […]

Z Energy, a New Zealand-based oil company, announced a partnership with Visa to offer a faster, more convenient payment option for customers to pay for gas and other goods at its many service stations dispersed across the country. The technology will enable customers to make purchases under NZ$80 without the need to sign or use […]

SecureKey Technologies Inc. announced the commercial availability of its cloud-based briidge.net identity and authentication platform – a solution that enables people to use devices and credentials they already have to perform strong two-factor authentication. The briidge.net suite of enterprise federated authentication services aims to be easy for people to use and reduces the number of […]

Payment processor Heartland Payment Systems and mobile payment network LevelUp have formed a partnership to create a national mobile payment solution. After piloting its program in New York City, Boston, Louisville, Minneapolis and Madison, Wis., the partnership is now conducting a full-scale rollout of the system. LevelUp’s footprint will expand nationally more quickly with help […]

Itautec and Lumidigm have partnered to create a system that utilizes biometrics and a QR code for secure withdrawals at ATMs. To use the system, a customer would have a banking app on his phone and use it to select how much money he would like to take out of the ATM. He drags that […]