PKO Bank Polski is partnering with Gemalto to migrate its entire portfolio of Visa debit cards from magnetic stripe technology to EMV contactless. PKO Bank Polski S.A., the largest financial institution in Poland with 1,211 branches and 1,938 agencies serving 8.5 million customers, began deployment of the new technology in September 2010. The bank plans […]

Discover Card announced that it has begun issuing Zip contactless credit cards and stickers to its customers. Discover’s Zip is a new payment solution that enables consumers to simply touch a payment device – in the form of either a plastic card or a sticker that can be attached to a mobile phone or any […]

Magicard announced the launch of the Rio Pro, its new secure ID card printing solution designed professional users. Leveraging Magicard’s HoloKote visual security features, the Rio Pro to allow users to print a standard or custom watermark, enabling added security at no extra cost per card. The custom graphic is printed into the overlay panel […]

Bell ID announced the deployment of a end-to-end EMV issuance solution for one of Saudi Arabia’s banks, one of the first in-Kingdom operational platforms for both central and instant issuance. In 2009 the bank had already deployed Bell ID’s software for its central issuance operations at its headquarters. Now, Bell ID’s instant issuance solution will […]

The U.S. Government Printing Office is offering personalization of PIV credentials to other government agencies, says Steve LeBlanc, managing director for security and intelligent documents at the agency. The U.S. General Services Administration certified the printing office for the graphical personalization services of PIV identification cards, which are required for all full-time government employees and […]

Munich-based Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announced that shipments of its Convego Air contactless payment cards to the U.S. have now surpassed the 50 million unit mark. Since the introduction of its contactless payment cards in 2006, G&D has become the number one supplier of Visa and MasterCard branded contactless payment cards in the U.S., […]

Southern California’s Kinecta Federal Credit Union today announced it will provide its members with MasterCard PayPass-enabled credit cards. Kinecta members can now simply tap their credit cards on specially equipped merchant terminals to pay for items, without needing to sign or enter a PIN if the total is less than $50. PayPass cards also include […]

MBNA, a European subsidiary of Bank of America, has begun a two-year program to roll out contactless credit cards for its millions of UK customers. According to the MBNA, 5 million of the company’s cards will have contactless technology by the end of 2011, adding to the existing 10 million contactless credit and debit cards […]

NBS Technologies, a provider of smart card personalization hardware and software solutions, today announced that the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has issued the company a patent for the personalization of EMV cards in client/server based environments. Patent #2331494, entitled “Smart Card Personalization in a Multistation Environment,” details the personalization of ID or payment smart cards […]

Gemalto has licensed the contactless smart card patent from Leighton Technologies. The license with Gemalto is an outcome of a patent infringement lawsuit, Leighton Technologies LLC v. United States of America. Gemalto was not a defendant in this lawsuit, but was given notice of the action by the U.S. Government because, as a government vendor, […]