All McDonald’s restaurants in the UK will accept contactless payments by the end of the month, according to Computing.co.uk. Launched in partnership with Visa Europe, the initiative will bring contactless readers to some 1,200 restaurants across the UK. The new system will allow customers to pay for meals under £15 with just a tap of […]

The Smart Card Alliance honored its Industry Councils during the 2011 Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference, giving thanks for their contributions to the smart card industry. The SCA Industry Council contributes through collaborative work on white papers, best practices, webinars, conferences and more. For their work, notably on the white paper “Getting to Meaningful Use […]

Eurosmart gathered at its Brussels headquarters to announce new members, underline 2010 key achievements, and deliver a vision for future developments. At the General Assembly, Eurosmart increased the final figure for shipments in Telecom market segment in 2010 to bring the total shipment of microcontroller based Smart Secure Devices above 5.5 billion in 2010. Forecasts […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the availability of a new interactive PDF viewer allowing subscribers a new way to access our print magazines and content. The spring 2011 issue of re:ID is ready and the interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that […]

Oberthur Technologies has announced the commercial launch of its Cosmo Fly v4 M/Chip Advance for MasterCard. Following Oberthur’s announcement of the development of MasterCard M/Chip Advance in December 2010, the Cosmo Fly has been fully certified and is now commercially available for MasterCard issuers. The new product is designed to provide MasterCard issuers with a […]

Clear2Pay has won the Contactless Monkey Award in the category of “Trailblazing and Innovation” for its EMV contactless ticketing solution in South Africa’s public transport system. Clear2Pay shares the award, which is given to companies who have “furthered the boundaries of contactless technology” through introducing new technology or pilot programs, with its partners Keith Smith […]

The Atlanta Federal Reserve wants to put an end to erroneous fears over the security of mobile contactless payments, reports American Banker. According to the bank, a mobile device provides greater security than a common magnetic stripe credit card in that the device itself can be used as an authentication tool. For example, most if […]

Updated with comments from Chase Chase Card Services, a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co., announced it will issue a credit card with EMV chip technology. Chase will first unveil chip-and-signature on the JPMorgan Palladium credit card in June, a card serving customers who frequently travel abroad, and to other Chase credit cards within the […]

Bell ID announced the launch of the Bell ID EMV Token Manager, a new Web-based solution designed to coordinate and simplify the management of any type or combination of EMV token deployment. The Bell ID EMV Token Manager performs data preparation for any EMV or chip payment application and for managing the entire life cycles […]

Wells Fargo & Company is testing the Visa Smart Card, which includes the traditional magnetic stripe along with EMV chip technology, to help increase card acceptance worldwide. The pilot includes 15,000 Wells Fargo consumer credit card customers who travel internationally. EMV is the global industry standard for chip payment technology. The microprocessor chip contains the […]