Banca Monte Paschi Belgio and MasterCard will launch the PaschiCombo card in Belgium combing debit, credit, display screen and contactless funtionalities all into a single payment device. The PaschiCombo card is an all-in-one solution, offerings users a Maestro debit card on one side and MasterCard credit card on the other. The PaschiCombo cards also has […]

GlobalPlatform announced a compliance program that will standardize the trusted execution environment (TEE) and promote assurance in the mobile secure services sector by forging an approved industry framework. GlobalPlatform states that the new compliance program will cut the cost of progress for industry players— application developers, hardware manufacturers, software developers, etc.— by eliminating barriers caused […]

Research and Markets has added a new Javelin Strategy & Research report to its catalog entitled “Banking Authentication And The FFIEC: Business Customers Crave Biometrics.” The report gives financial institutions insight into different types of authentication technology and how to find the balance between security and customer satisfaction. It looks at the regulatory expectations around […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance has certified the first two products to implement the CIPURS open security standard – a contactless security controller from Infineon Technologies and a CIPURSE smart card applet for NFC smart phones from INSIDE Secure. System integrators, transit systems operators and other transit ecosystem members can use these […]

Burlington Medical Supplies (BMS) has partnered together with ODIN, a provider of RFID-enabled health care solutions, to launch a new inventory management system for radiation garments at hospitals and health care facilities. The Burlington Apron Inventory Management System (BAIMS) is available through BurmedID, a division of BMS. This inventory management system for lead aprons helps […]

Late last year a new acronym joined the alphabet soup that makes up the federal identity landscape when CIV, or Commercial Identity Verification, was announced. CIV is a relative–some say a sibling while others argue a distant cousin–to the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential that is used by federal employees for physical and logical access […]

Research firm Gartner identified NFC payments as one of the fastest moving technologies in its 2012 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle, an annual report that assesses the maturity, business benefit and future direction of numerous high-impact technologies. In last year’s Hype Cycle, Gartner placed NFC payments at the very peak of the “Inflated Expectations” curve–occupied now […]