Cape Cod has gone live with its own Charlie Card, a stored value smart card used for automated fare collection system and originally installed by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). According to a local news report the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority will start accepting the new card from passengers to pay for rides […]

Cirque announced its latest GlideSecure trackpad solution which features on-board EMV contactless card reading functionality and integration with SecureKey Technologies’ authentication services. As a fully integrated technology solution, Cirque’s secure input solutions with SecureKey’s technology will provide an solution for payment and authentication peripherals, as well as in consumer electronics such as notebook PCs and […]

Arcontia International, a Swedish producer of contactless smart card readers and terminals, has been selected by LECIP, Inc. for a smart card based fare collection solution, including cashless ticket vending machines and contactless smart card readers. LECIP and the City of Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus (BBB) inked a deal worth more than $7 million […]

Tim Hortons, a Canadian casual restaurant known for its coffee and doughnuts, will offer new contactless payment options to its customer by the end of this year, according to MarketNews. All 3,000 outlets will be equipped with Interac Association’s Flash-enabled terminals, with the majority of these installations already completed. The new contactless payment system will […]

MasterCard announced it has partnered with Dutch banks ABN AMRO and ING to launch contactless cards enabled with Maestro PayPass in the Netherlands by mid-2013. Maestro PayPass offers consumers fast and convenient payment options while shopping, benefiting both the consumer and the merchant by reducing checkout time. PayPass users are able to tap their contactless […]

NXP Semiconductors has developed a touch sensor that can be built into contactless payment cards and passports to prevent their details from being read or payments taken without the user’s active permission, according to Engineering and Technology Magazine. Using a capacitive touch sensor, similar to those found in mobile smart phones, NXP engineers created the […]

FIME has been contracted to help eftpos Payments Australia Limited migrate from magnetic stripe cards to a contact and contactless chip card. eftpos started this project in early 2011 by developing its eftpos chip, which it piloted in October 2011. It continued enhancing the card, introducing Australia’s first contactless chip card in June 2012. This […]

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has selected NXP Semiconductors for its SmartMX2 microcontroller to increase the security and performance of its banking cards. The new cards will have dual interface capabilities that enable both contact and contactless payments. NXP’s SmartMX2 delivers enhanced user convenience and speed of transactions that allow banks to offer […]

Banca Monte Paschi Belgio and MasterCard will launch the PaschiCombo card in Belgium combing debit, credit, display screen and contactless funtionalities all into a single payment device. The PaschiCombo card is an all-in-one solution, offerings users a Maestro debit card on one side and MasterCard credit card on the other. The PaschiCombo cards also has […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance has certified the first two products to implement the CIPURS open security standard – a contactless security controller from Infineon Technologies and a CIPURSE smart card applet for NFC smart phones from INSIDE Secure. System integrators, transit systems operators and other transit ecosystem members can use these […]