Thinking of changing your mag stripe campus ID card to contactless? Campus card provider CBORD may be able to help. The company is offering a free webinar March 27 that will enable participants to learn the latest about contactless credentials for colleges and universities. The webinar will review the variety of contactless options available and […]

Digital security provider Gemalto has launched Dexxis EMV instant issuance card product, designed to streamline and speed up banks’ migration to EMV by bringing card issuance processes in-house. Dexxis EMV enables banks to issue and activate initial and replacement cards immediately on site by securely encoding the smart card chips and mag stripes, as well […]

BadgePass and Digital Identification Solutions have integrated BadgePass’s Identity Manager credentialing software with Digital’s EDIsecure XID 8300 Retransfer Printer for single step smart card encoding and card issuance. Identity Manager is part of the BadgePass suite of security solutions that also includes Visitor Manager, Access Control and SmartReg. In Identity Manager, one can enroll user […]

K-Plussa launched an upgraded, contactless version of its cash card to provide a faster and easier shopping experience for costumers at the checkout. K-Plussa is a customer loyalty programmed in Finland offering benefits to its customers from over 3,000 shopping places and over 40 business partners. The new contactless K-Plussa cash card will be issued […]

The Ralph Carr Judicial Center in Denver, Colorado has selected AMAG Technology’s Symmetry Homeland V7 Security Management System,to provide integrated access control and security management solutions from HID Global. AMAG’s Symmetry Homeland Security Management System will integrate with 310 HID RP40 multiCLASS smart card readers, which combines HID Prox 125 kHz proximity and iCLASS 13.56 […]

The Peninsula Taxi Association (PTA) in South Africa has launched a electronic fare collection system, granting commuters cashless fare and discounts when using the newly developed contactless-enabled transit card, according to The Cape Times. Together with DigiCore and Absa Bank, the PTA has installed the EMV compliant system – dubbed Tap-I-Fare – into more than […]

Operational Research Consultants Inc. (ORC), a subsidiary of WidePoint Corp., has been authorized to issue PIV-I as a certified non-federal issuer. As a non-federal issuer, ORCs identity credentials, issued to government contractors, state and local governments, first responders and health care providers, have additional interoperability for customers who wish to conduct e-government and e-commerce transactions […]

German bank, Sparkasse will pilot contactless payments for its bank credit card users, reports Venture Village. Locations in Hannover, Braunschweig and Wolfsburg will be some of the first for the trial, which begins in April. More than 1.3 million customers will receive the new bank cards complete with contactless functionality. Using the new cards, bank […]

Datacard Group announced a contract award from the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) to upgrade to the Datacard MXD Card Delivery System and MXi Envelope Insertion System for enhanced card delivery and mailing for its driver licenses and identification cards. SAAQ has been a customer of Datacard Group since 2002 and mails nearly […]

Gerardo Talavera, Managing Director, Americas, Evolis Inc. Smart cards, both contact and contactless, have become standard technologies for applications such as identification, access control, loyalty programs, transportation and banking. Cards are becoming more technically advanced and a single card now supports multiple applications. For instance, a single student ID card can serve not only as […]