Digital Identification Solutions, a German ID supplier, has launched its new EDIsecure Card Management Software Suite, CMS 4.0, that includes extended functionality and a new graphical user interface for its two stand-alone editions, CMS Standard and CMS Standard Plus. Designed to meet most budgets, the software suite consists of four different editions with increasing functionality […]

Gemalto will be deploying its Dexxis Instant Issuance solution in Indonesia to enable on-the-spot delivery of microprocessor–based banking cards in an effort to reach citizens spread across 17,500 islands where 90% don’t use, or are not familiar with, banks. Gemalto’s solution is decentralized instant card issuance–in-person and in-branch. Dexxis includes EMV smart cards, servers, software, […]

Smart card provider Oberthur Technologies has completed MasterCard certification in its Compliance Assessment and Security Testing program for its flash memory-based payment card, giving financial institutions more flexibility in card issuance. Flash memory based products reduces time to market by eliminating the “masking” phase, which is usually required to load software onto the payment card’s […]

CPI Card Group has released Card Designer 2.5. This latest version of the online software includes new and updated features. Card Designer now has an updated online tool, enabling customers to get their cards to market faster. These upgraded features include a design checklist, pre-set templates and the ability to design not only the front […]

The tale of Washington State University banking partnership and ID card By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications When Washington State University in Pullman went looking for a banking partner a couple years ago, administrators had some strong ideas of what the program needed to offer. “WSU was approached by a number of institutions who […]

HID Global has announced the launch of Identity on Demand (IoD), a service offering that provides expertise and speed to make custom credential and ID badge. At the same time, HID also launched EdgeDeveloper Kit, a key tool for development to Edge Evo, HID’s next generation access control platform. Identity on Demand offers card design, […]

Datacard Group, a secure ID and card personalization solution provider, is highlighting its MJ7500 card personalization system and MX6000 card issuance system with a retransfer color printing module at PRINT 09, a trade show geared to all aspects of the printing industry. The Chicago show, which began last week, runs through Sept. 16. The MJ7500 […]

Sustainable options are still a ways off By Ed McKinley, Contributing Editor, Avisian Publications Polyvinyl chloride–or PVC for short–dominates the nation’s plastic-card market despite efforts to find more ecologically friendly materials. Cards made of 100% PVC account for perhaps 90% of all the plastic cards made in North America, according to card-industry executives. Most of […]

Optically Variable Ink will be used to secure national ID cards being issued in Guyana, according to a report in the Starbroek News. The outline of the map of Guyana will appear on the front of the card and it will have additional security features that would not be visible to the naked eye or […]

Multiple applications on one card bode well for the technology’s future By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications It’s an interesting time for contactless smart card technology. The payment cards are in the hands of consumers but now it’s a matter of getting them to use them. The next year may be tough in terms […]