Visa Europe has announced that six of Germany’s leading banks are launching Visa payWave contactless services in 2012. BW Bank, comdirect, DKB, Landesbank Berlin, TARGOBANK and Volkswagen Bank have all confirmed their plans to roll out payWave technology by the middle of next year. Contactless payments are based on EMV technology, where a card terminal […]

Barclaycard Global Commercial Payments has announced the launch of the UK’s first contactless corporate payment card. All new cardholders can make purchases of £15 or under by simply holding the card over a reader. Aside from greater convenience for customers, the cards enable businesses to track all small transactions that until now were typically made […]

NXP Semiconductors has announced a partnership with Glodyne Technoserve, the technology service provider for the Indian State Government of Bihar, to provide contactless “e-Shakti” cards to citizens living in rural communities for access to banking and social welfare facilities. With the solution, residents of Bihar can use the SmartMX-based e-Shakti card as their identity card, […]

The Department of Motor Vehicles in Rhode Island is employing a facial recognition-based system in its license and identification card issuance programs in an effort to curb identity fraud, according to a Turn to 10 article. The system the DMV utilizes is can compare all the photos taken for state-issued ID cards and run them […]

HID Global announced it has expanded its card personalization portfolio with the introduction of its FARGO HDP8500 Industrial Card Printer/Encoder, a secure printing/encoding solution, at CARTES & IDentification 2011 in Paris, France. Featuring the company’s fifth generation High Definition Printing technology, the new printer/encoder is a card personalization and issuance solution for government ID card […]

Harvard Campus Services – ID Card Services co-hosted with ColorID the New England Campus Identification & Security Seminar. The one-day event brought together card service managers from eight regional colleges and universities for a discussion about new card technologies and best card practices. Guests experienced the latest insights into emerging campus trends and technologies. Seminars […]

Crocus Technology, a developer of magnetically enhanced semiconductors, and Morpho announced an agreement to develop and commercialize a smart card based on Crocus’ Magnetic-Logic-Unit (MLU) technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Crocus will develop an MLU-based secure microcontroller which Morpho will integrate into its smart card products. The secure microcontroller product will be compliant […]

Seminole State College of Florida together with CardSmith announced the launch of a new comprehensive campus ID card program – The Blue & Gold Card. Powered by CardSmith’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) transaction system, the ID card will be used for campus library services, vending, copying and printing, campus dining, book store purchases and buy-back refunds, parking, […]

Datacard Group, a provider of ID and card personalization solutions, will be showcasing its MX6000 card issuance system at CARTES & IDentification 2011 in Paris. The MX6000, which can print up to 1,500 cards per hour, features retransfer color printing and dual-interface smart card personalization modules along with an envelope insertion system. Visitors to the […]

Collis has announced that its test center at the company’s head office in Leiden, Holland has been accredited by MasterCard Worldwide to provide Card Personalization Validation (CPV) and Terminal Integration Process (TIP & M-TIP) services. According to Collis, the MasterCard CPV, M-TIP and PayPass TIP services are designed to test whether card and terminal products […]