Key Innovations has announced a new unattended payment terminal that supports both NFC and EMV chip and pin transactions, as well as magnetic stripe cards. The compact KSD6000 terminal features a 3.2-inch color display that guides the customer through the purchasing process through a series of animated menus. The display also allows retailers to deliver […]

Hoeft & Wessel AG, an IT Group supplying ticketing, parking and mobile solutions in the UK and Germany, has announced that it will deliver contactless payment technology to trains and buses in its ticketing network. Provided through H&W’s Almex brand, the ‘e-Ticketing’ system will enable commuters to use their EMV contactless credit cards to pay […]

Over the next two months, the Smart Card Alliance will be hosting some events geared toward the financial services and security industries. The first is a webinar designed to help merchants and acquirers adapt from magnetic stripe cards to EMV chip cards. This free webinar, entitled EMV for Merchants and Acquirers: U.S. Migration Considerations, will […]

SmartMetric Inc. has announced its plans to launch a smart card with an integrated fingerprint scanner. This technology will be combined with the EMV chip and will replace the need to use a PIN in the next generation of banking and credit cards. The SmartMetric Fingerprint Card aims to add greater security to banking cards […]

Mercator Advisory Group has launched a new report predicting the mobile payments market will soon become “war zone” fought over by mobile operators, handset manufacturers, payment industry heavyweights, and Silicon Valley giants. Caught in the middle will be merchants, who will have to choose which side they’re on – i.e., which of the many services […]

Collisannounced the debut of its Mobile Test Center during the NFC World Congress this week in Nice, France. According to Collis, the center is designed to provide “one-stop-shop” testing services to every stakeholder in the NFC ecosystem, with the main goal of achieving a standard that will enabled widely accepted and interoperable NFC-Trusted Service Manager […]

Interac Association has announced that Canada’s Scotiabank is now issuing chip-enabled debit cards with Interac Flash contactless functionality. The new “SCENE ScotiaCard” gives cardholders the choice of paying for smaller value items by simply tapping the card against a contactless reader at the point of sale. According to Interac, Flash builds on the security of […]

FIME has announced that its EVAL Test Suite has received MasterCard PayPass 3.0 qualification. According to FIME, the suite can now be used to test contactless terminals designed to meet the payment system’s latest specifications for accepting high value contactless transactions. The EVAL Test Suite has also received qualification from the EMV standards body, EMVCo, […]

Gemalto announced that it is providing Colsubsidio, a Compensation Fund in Colombia, with multi-application EMV cards. The Multi Service Membership Card provides all Colsubsidio members with the security of EMV payment, combined with a range of services. These services include an e-purse application, admittance to recreational parks, as well as access to sport and convention […]

Visa has announced that 43 Toronto Parking Authority (TPA) Green Parking lots have adopted Visa payWave contactless payments. The new system enables drivers to pay for parking by simply passing their payWave card near the contactless terminal to ‘check in’ to the parking lot, and once again when exiting to complete the transaction. Once the […]