Visa Europe is anticipating a big year for contactless and NFC payments, with issuance projected to leap from 30 million in 2011 to 50 million in 2012. 2012 will also see the launch the company’s first NFC-enabled mobile payments services, along with the debut of its new e-commerce digital wallet service in the latter half […]

EMV in the U.S. won’t be chip and PIN but instead a new technology that takes advantage of the online infrastructure available in the U.S., according to Stephanie Ericksen, head of Authentication Product Integration at Visa USA. In the U.S. payment transactions are authorized in real time. In other countries this connectivity doesn’t exist which […]

In Europe, the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) and EPASOrg has developed a new global standard to help accommodate changes in new payment technologies, according to SupermarketNews.com “The ‘ARTS-EPAS Retailer Payment Protocol’ standard was developed to help exchange data between payment terminals and support emerging payment forms such as mobile payments, EMV chips, contactless […]

More than three-quarters POS terminals enabled Adoption of EMV as the universal payment standard gained further traction in 2011, with official figures revealing that more than 42% of all payment cards and nearly 76% of all terminals in circulation globally are based on EMV technology. These numbers, however, do not reflect the U.S. The figures […]

India is emerging as one of the world’s fastest growing smart card markets, according to a new research report by RNCOS. With more than one billion in population and increasing modern application areas, India is anticipated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of approximately 15% during 2011-2014. A number of government-run programs, like […]

The point-of-sale terminal has entered a period of dramatic change, according to the latest report release by the Mercator Advisory Group. And the next few years in the industry promise to be a period of even greater change and development than the last. In the report, entitled “POS Terminals: On the Cusp of Change,” Mercator […]

The 2011 contactless payment card shipments in the United States have taken a dramatic drop, according to ABI Research. The number of shipments has fallen considerably when comparing against quarterly shipments achieved in 2010, explains Phil Sealy, research analyst, security and ID. And the drop in shipments has primarily been driven by some overriding factors […]

By David Worthington, principle consultant for Payment and Chip Technology at Bell ID Most consumers are comfortable with the concept of a mobile phone as a secure, multifunctional device. It is this consumer acceptance, coupled with technological advancement, which make the 2012 market conditions ripe for greater expansion in mobile services. The rich user interface […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the winter 2011 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

Watchdata announced that its products have successfully passed certification standards for use by the Visa. The TimeCOS-JV-S-T0-1 and the TimeCOS–JV–C–T0–1 are the two latest products by Watchdata to be certified by VISA and suitable for commercial use. The company’s expanded and upgraded sticker product, the Timecos/Fly TransWave v.10 has also passed standards for use by […]