Wells Fargo & Company is testing the Visa Smart Card, which includes the traditional magnetic stripe along with EMV chip technology, to help increase card acceptance worldwide. The pilot includes 15,000 Wells Fargo consumer credit card customers who travel internationally. EMV is the global industry standard for chip payment technology. The microprocessor chip contains the […]

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority still uses tokens and paper transfers. The transit system that serves 1 million commuters daily will be making the switch to contactless smart cards and even near field communication in the coming years, Richard Maloney, SEPTA’s director of public affairs, told Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan. “For the riders, they will […]

SmartGroup USA, a provider of card issuance and card payment solutions to the banking and card payment industry, announced the launch of SmartGroup USA. This follows a recent announcement by the company to open two new technical support centers in eastern Canada and the western United States. SmartGroup USA also announced key partnerships with a […]

Jolly Technology has announced support for QR bar codes in all products: Lobby Track, ID Flow, Asset Track and Label Flow. The company envisions uses of the technology will be for ID verification, ticketing, trade shows and other uses for the transfer of personal information. These bar codes can store information about a given person […]

During a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services budget hearing, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) questioned Sec. Kathleen Sebelius about upgrading the Medicare ID card to help prevent fraud and waste. The HHS budget requests $580 million fraud prevention, Kirk said during the hearing. He added that one thing that could be done is […]

The March meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a […]

HID Global announced it will showcase new developments in its federal identity compliance initiative and preview its next-generation access control technology platform at next week’s ISC West International Security Conference and Exposition. The company will also present its share insights into the recent acquisitions of ActivIdentity and LaserCard during its annual strategy briefing on April […]

MasterCard has announced the introduction of its five year plan, called “The MasterCard Roadmap,” for its payments systems in New Zealand. MasterCard’s New Zealand Country Manager Albert Naffah said the comprehensive plan will touch every point of the payment landscape with commitments to the roll out of new MasterCard products and services, further safeguards to […]

Team NiSCA, Somerset, N.J., will roll out its PR5360LE, a new high speed, direct to card printer at the ISC West International Security Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas, April 6-8. The new printer enhances the NiSCA plastic card printer product line with the addition of a professional, single-sided printer that has an optional magnetic […]

Jolly Technology’s latest releases of its ID Flow and Lobby Track software support MIFARE encoding, proximity card reading and ultraviolet layer printing with HID Global’s Fargo printers. The Jolly Encoder supports reading and writing MIFARE compatible cards using an HID printer equipped with a MIFARE compatible reader such as HID’s OMNIKEY devices. Other encoding technologies […]