MasterCard M/Chip, Version 4, Designed to Address Range of IndustryNeeds Purchase, NY, and Waterloo, Belgium, October 3, 2002 Responding to feedback received from its member financial institutions around the world, MasterCard today announced the release of MasterCard M/Chip, version 4 (M/Chip 4), a highly flexible smart card application for credit and debit cards. The new […]
03 Oct, 2002Next Generation MasterCard Credit/Debit Application Provides Issuers Additional Control, Flexibility
01 Oct, 2002ActivCard Debuts Corporate Access Card(TM) (CAC) Solution
FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –ActivCard(R) (Nasdaq: ACTI; Nasdaq Europe: ACTI), the leader in IDentity Management (IDM) software, today announced that the ActivCard Corporate Access Card(TM) (CAC) solution – based upon proven technology developed initially for the U.S. Department of Defense – is now available for the enterprise. The Corporate Access Card solution is a […]
01 Oct, 2002Smart Card Alliance Releases New White Paper – Contactless Technology For Secure Physical Access
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ – Contactless smart cardscan add higher security to everyday ID credentials that employees use to access buildings, airports and other secure facilities, according to a new Smart Card Alliance white paper released today. At the same time, the technology paves the way to add new applications like network access […]
30 Sep, 2002Datakey Smart Card Technology Deployed by U.S. Government Agency
15,000 Employees Will Lock-Down Their Laptops With Datakey Smart Cards ToSecure Sensitive Documents MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Datakey Inc. (Nasdaq: DKEY) ( http://www.datakey.com ), a trusted developer of smart card solutions for securing e-business, today announced that a U.S. government Homeland Security agency has placed an order for 6,500 cryptographic smart cards to secure […]
27 Sep, 2002Mike Butler :: September IAB meeting
25 Sep, 2002JCB Issues First Hybrid Smart Cards in Taiwan
Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 25, 2002 – (JCN Newswire) – JCB International Co., Ltd., the international arm of major Japanese credit card company JCB Co. Ltd., has successfully started issuing EMV smart cards in Taiwan. Taipei Bank, which is one of 30 JCB card issuers in Taiwan, has begun issuing the smart cards to about 3,000 […]
PHOENIX, September 24, 2002 – National Processing Company (NPCR), aleading provider of merchant credit card processing and a wholly owned subsidiary of National Processing, Inc. (NYSE: NAP), has signed a multi-year agreement with Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC), a leading global provider of electronic payment solutions, to provide Hypercom’s fast, secure and easy-to-use ICE? 5500Plus and […]


