Cirque announced its latest GlideSecure trackpad solution which features on-board EMV contactless card reading functionality and integration with SecureKey Technologies’ authentication services. As a fully integrated technology solution, Cirque’s secure input solutions with SecureKey’s technology will provide an solution for payment and authentication peripherals, as well as in consumer electronics such as notebook PCs and […]

Bell ID, a smart token management solution provider, is the latest company to join the Smart Card Alliance’s EMV Migration Forum. This forum is designed to help companies from various industries come together to drive the EMV payments technology implementation in the U.S. Bell ID will contribute its know-how in terms of provisioning and managing […]

EMVCo, the EMV standards organization owned by American Express, JCB, MasterCard and Visa, has added eight new members to its Associates Programme this year. The eight members include Cubic Transportation Systems Limited, Equinox Payments, FIME, Planet Media and Nationz Technologies, who have joined as Technical Associates. ANZ and Vantiv have joined the program as Business […]

EyeVerify specializes in eye vein biometrics, the process of imaging and pattern matching the blood vessels in the whites of the eye. EyeVerify uses a cell phone camera to capture vascular patterns to achieve fingerprint-level accuracy using a device people never leave home without. Use cases include accessing enterprise VPNs, online bank accounts and medical […]

Lumidigm has added bioLock software to its fingerprint readers, making them certified by SAP for authentication purposes. The bioLock software manages SAP user identities with biometrics to help prevent insider fraud in areas such as inventory shrinkage, payroll, financial fraud or data loss. The software can manage both the log-on process, as well as re-authentication […]

NXP Semiconductors has developed a touch sensor that can be built into contactless payment cards and passports to prevent their details from being read or payments taken without the user’s active permission, according to Engineering and Technology Magazine. Using a capacitive touch sensor, similar to those found in mobile smart phones, NXP engineers created the […]

FIME has been contracted to help eftpos Payments Australia Limited migrate from magnetic stripe cards to a contact and contactless chip card. eftpos started this project in early 2011 by developing its eftpos chip, which it piloted in October 2011. It continued enhancing the card, introducing Australia’s first contactless chip card in June 2012. This […]