Turkcell has some new developments leveraging NFC technology, according to the Wall Street Journal, which was recently given a glance inside the company’s research center outside of Istanbul. The Turkish teleco, which boasts some 33.5 million subscribers, has figured out a way to fit up to 11 different bank accounts and charge cards onto the […]

The smart card industry bounced back from a weak 2009, as unit shipments increased 19% and smart card IC units increased by more than 20%, according to IMS Research. In its new report “Smart Cards and Smart Card ICs – World – 2011,” IMS Research discovered that card suppliers restocked their inventories in 2010, which […]

Rogers, one of Canada’s largest communications companies, has applied for a banking license in order to strengthen its position as a mobile money provider, according to Rethink Wireless. Rather than build branches, Rogers plans on creating a “niche credit card opportunity” for consumers with its own brand of credit card. According to Mobile analyst Chetan […]

The Cedarville University located in Dayton, Ohio has teamed up with Fifth Third Bank to offer students, faculty and staff a combined campus ID and debit card, according to the Dayton Business Journal. The new “cedarville1card” enables university cardholders access to campus facilities, meal plans and scanning into chapel. In addition, cardholders can link their […]

Visa Europe France and its member banks are making Strasbourg France’s “second contactless payments capital,” following the successful deployment of the technology in Nice last year. The pilot will see Visa contactless payment cards and supporting terminals delivered to Strasbourg citizens and merchants through a number of Visa Europe’s member banks, including Banque Edel, BNP […]

While there are many one-time passcode devices on the market, RSA’s football-shaped key fobs are most often associated with the technology. In March a well-publicized hack of RSA’s seed code for its SecurID solutions sent shockwaves through the ID community. It led to attacks on the company’s end users, including military contractor Lockheed Martin. RSA […]

IronKey has released the IronKey Trusted Access Platform, a new platform for the online banking industry that provides security through multiple controls, with the goals of reducing the risk of online banking fraud and simplifying compliance with FFIEC guidance. The company has also released a downloadable, secure browser application as a Trusted Access form factor. […]

The Agricultural Bank of China is using an RFID-based bank asset monitoring system to track the movement and amounts of money circulating through their facilities. With headquarters in Beijing, the Agricultural Bank has branches throughout Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. An RFID tag based on the Impinj Monza tag chip is attached to each […]

“We are committed to NFC at Google.” That is what the company’s Vice President of Payments Osama Bedier, told an audience of bankers and mobile operators in London on a summer afternoon. Less than a month following the announcement of Google Wallet and Google Offers, Bedier was nothing short of a rock star at the […]

Gemalto has announced that ING Belgium has agreed to deploy Gemalto’s Ezio end-to-end authentication product in its eBanking platform. The Ezio service utilizes its Ezio Classic reader and ING customers’ current smart banking cards to generate a one-time password that grants secure access to their bank account and online transaction signing. The system is fully […]