Vodafone Italia has teamed up with CartaSi to offer customers a prepaid card that can be used to purchase goods via NFC technology. Launched with the support of MasterCard and l’Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane, Vodafone’s Smart Pass card can be used for both contactless payments at PayPass-enabled points of sale, as well as […]

Speaking at 5th annual Islamic Banking exhibition in Tehran, Watchdata announced that it will work with Padisar Informatics to deliver and promote NFC mobile banking solutions in Iran. For the first time, exhibition attendees were privy to a demonstration of NFC technology via Watchdata’s range of payment and mobile banking solutions, including the SIM card-based […]

Bank of America announced that it will begin charging a $5 monthly fee for cardholders who use their debit cards, a move that may impact banking relationships on campus. According to The Daily Californian, other major banks are expected to follow suit including JP Morgan Chase and Sun Trust. Wells Fargo plans to pilot a […]

With the CARTES 2011 show around the corner, the conference has announced the SESAMES finalists. Among 317 submissions, the finalists for the 10 categories of the SESAMES Award competition have been selected. The SESAMES Awards Finalists will be presented at CARTES & IDentification on the SESAMES Area, hall 4. The winners will be announced during […]

IMS Research has released a new report projecting that the number of payment and banking smart cards in Brazil will reach 450 million by the end of 2016. According to the report, Brazil is easily the largest market for payment and banking cards in South America, and second largest in the Americas. The country is […]

Coke vs. Pepsi. Windows vs. Mac. Visa vs. MasterCard. These well-known rivalries are good for consumers because they create healthy competition. For many years, this seemed to be the case for smart card operating systems. The debate and battle was quite heated, but today, there’s little talk about the smart card OS. What happened the […]

ACS has announced the expansion of its open fare contactless ticketing scheme for NJ Transit to incorporate twice as many bus routes. According to ACS, riders can now simply wave or tap their credit or debit cards on buses covering six different inter-zone routes, including travel into New York. The system has also been expanded […]

Financial services solutions provider Advanced Bank Solutions is the latest company to team up with IronKey to offer the Trusted Access Platform to its clients. The IronKey Trusted Access Platform delivers online banking security in a multi-layered approach to mitigate the risk of online banking fraud. With it, banks can stop criminal attacks from malware, […]

Visa Europe, in partnership with Emue Technologies and NagraID Security, has added the CodeSure Matrix Display card to its CodeSure card portfolio. The Matrix Display card is built on the CodeSure multi-channel authentication system and due to its dot matrix display and soft touch keypad, can be customized for local language and usability preferences. The […]

SmartMetric Inc. has announced its plans to launch a smart card with an integrated fingerprint scanner. This technology will be combined with the EMV chip and will replace the need to use a PIN in the next generation of banking and credit cards. The SmartMetric Fingerprint Card aims to add greater security to banking cards […]