Southwestern Oregon Community College, Cocos Bay, has paired with campus card service provider CardSmith to launch the Laker One Card, the college’s new official ID card that includes door access and meal plans for its 12,000 students. CardSmith’s software as a service solution is now processing meal plan transactions at the college’s dining hall. Southwestern […]

Ellen Hamlin, program manager at Hewlett-Packard, demos the self-service portal for HP’s Assured Identity Plus solution. “It is a full end-to-end suite of services that builds on our foundation that we built with our PIV card deployments,” Hamlin says. “The HP solution adds logical access and physical access and integrates it with an identity management […]

Citibank is adding a new rewards credit card to its smart card pilot, according to bankrate.com, giving customers the option to redeem reward points with the push of a button at the time of checkout. The Citi ThankYou Prestige 2G Card features two buttons on the front. One reads “Regular Credit” for making purchases just […]

Seattle University is in the middle of rolling out new campus cards thanks to a new contract with U.S. Bank. To make it easier for students to get the new cards, the university is allowing them to pick up the cards at several locations around campus. The current cards will cease to function by Jan. […]

Need a new ID card printer, particularly one that could apply a hologram or provide lamination? There’s a blog discusses some of the intricacies of a few of the printers out there manufactured by well-known companies such as Evolis, Fargo and Magicard. The article discusses clear overlaminates that provide an additional layer of security coupled […]

Keeping cards secured, both against fraud as well as securing the supply chain, is a constant fight, said Benoit Guez, director of smart cards and new technologies for CPI Card Group. “It’s always a fight with the bad guys. You try to be one step ahead of them, so you have a lot of new […]

First Data Corp. announced that it will provide card issuing and payment processing services for Getin Noble Bank’s new contactless card program. First Data will help the bank roll out MasterCard PayPass debit cards that will allow Getin’s customers to make tap and go payments of 50 zloty (about $17.50) at thousands of retailers across […]

Visa Europe is planning to bring contactless debit cards to Ireland this summer, according to the Irish Independent. Visa Europe, which already has 1.3 million debit cards in circulation in Ireland, will begin rolling out the new cards to customers with Bank of Ireland later this year. Visa is expected to eventually phase out contact […]

ID Card Group has announced it is expanding its inventory of proximity cards and keyfobs for contactless security. The Calif.-based ID products provider says it is now offering new proximity card types, including the clamshell, keyfob, PVC adhesive patch and other ISO-compliant options from HID Global, Indala, Casi-Rusco, Keri System and Schlage. Proximity cards, also […]

Trüb AG has expanded its portfolio of EMV smart card solutions with CombOS CPA. This new product complies with the SEPA specifications and is aimed at private label cards. The CombOS portfolio of operating systems developed by Trüb for EMV-compliant smart card solutions is being expanded with CombOS CPA (Common Payment Application). CombOS CPA implements […]