Payments processor First Data Corp. has introduced a new PIN pad that provides the ability to accept contactless payments as well as cardholder-initiated, contactless, PIN-based debit and traditional magnetic strip transactions. According to First Data, this device could give “thousands of merchants the ability to accept contactless payments, potentially giving consumers exponentially more places to […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has granted Lockheed Martin a five-year, $47 million contract to continue managing its Criminal Justice Information Services Division’s Card Scanning Service program which covers the conversion of paper fingerprint, palm print and photo records into electronic records. Records processed through this program are submitted by state, local, and federal law […]

Bling Nation, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based local payments network provider for community banks nationwide, announced that The State Bank, La Junta, Colo., recently went live with Bling’s Community Payments Service, a contactless payments network that enables banks and merchants to avoid global network costs through a secure local debit network. The State Bank, which is […]

The National Australia Bank has deployed a voice recognition system from Telstra, an Australian telecommunications company, and Salmat VeCommerce, a supplier of voice self-service solutions. It will allow customers to access their accounts with nothing more than their voice, which will replace the need for a PIN or password. Using voice biometric functionality, once callers […]

Advanced Card Systems Ltd., an Asia Pacific supplier of PC-linked smart card readers, plans to launch its newest offering, an NFC contactless smart card reader token, in the third quarter of this year. Called the ACR122T, the USB token is designed for mobile applications. Its compact USB plug design makes it portable and easy to […]

ImageWare Systems, a biometric solutions provider, has announced that it has been awarded a contract covering 18 months and $12 million for an unspecified government’s border management needs. The company has already begun work on the order which involves the deployment of ImageWare’s Biometric Border Management software suite. The system works by enrolling a user’s […]

The General Services Administration will unveil Central Certificate Validator program that will of perform certificate path discovery and validation (PD-VAL) in compliance with RFC 5280 in support of PKI-based authentication mechanisms described in FIPS 201. The proof-of-concept of the Central Certificate Validator will be demonstrated to agencies, suppliers and other interested parties on July 21 […]