Trüb has been supplying Lithuania with secure polycarbonate datapages since early 2008, and the success of the partnership thus far has led to a contract renewal. Trüb’s relationship with the Lithuanian Personalization Center of Identity Documents and the Ministry of Internal Affairs began in 2007 after the company underwent a thorough evaluation process. At the […]

Arcontia International, a Swedish producer of contactless smart card readers and terminals, has been selected by LECIP, Inc. for a smart card based fare collection solution, including cashless ticket vending machines and contactless smart card readers. LECIP and the City of Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus (BBB) inked a deal worth more than $7 million […]

Tim Hortons, a Canadian casual restaurant known for its coffee and doughnuts, will offer new contactless payment options to its customer by the end of this year, according to MarketNews. All 3,000 outlets will be equipped with Interac Association’s Flash-enabled terminals, with the majority of these installations already completed. The new contactless payment system will […]

MasterCard announced it has partnered with Dutch banks ABN AMRO and ING to launch contactless cards enabled with Maestro PayPass in the Netherlands by mid-2013. Maestro PayPass offers consumers fast and convenient payment options while shopping, benefiting both the consumer and the merchant by reducing checkout time. PayPass users are able to tap their contactless […]

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 […]

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird unveiled Canada’s new e-passport, featuring new security elements. The passport will contain complex historical imagery on all of its pages that will be difficult for counterfeiters to duplicate, as reported on Before It’s News. The passports also feature digitally printed photos of the passport holder embedded into the passport […]

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 […]

As the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) takes its first steps to expand train service into Silicon Valley, it is also bringing its regionally interoperable Clipper Card payment system to its new customers. Warm Springs Constructors, the consortium that is building the BART Warm Springs Track Extension Project, has awarded Cubic Transportation Systems a […]