Demand for added security and more intelligent ways-to-pay are on the up, according to Smart Payment Association (SPA) in its annual review of the payment smart cards market. According to the figures, the smart payment sector remained strong in 2009, showing steady growth throughout the year. SPA says expansion is expected to continue at pace […]

SmartMetric has announced plans to “significantly” penetrate the EMV credit and debit smart card market. EMV, which comes from the initial letters of Europay, MasterCard and VISA, is widely becoming the global standard in the migration from magnetic stripe cards to chip based smart cards, says SmartMetric. The company plans to open up its own […]

Hypercom Corporation has introduced its new L5000 product family of customer-facing, multipurpose, multimedia and multilane payment terminals. In addition to traditional checkout line functions, the L5000 line can perform in-aisle product locating, bar code price checking, health insurance card processing at the pharmacy, gift card loading and wedding registry processing at kiosks. The new Linux-based […]

The RZB (Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich) of the Raiffeisen Banking Group out of Austria has recently adopted Gemalto security solutions for their customized payment card designs. Gemalto’s Web-based technology enables users to customize their EMV payment card with a picture of their own choice making it the first picture card program in Austria’s banking community. Gemalto’s […]

Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist at Cryptography Research Inc., demonstrates the company’s Differential Power Analysis Workstation at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Kocher talks about why it’s important to have strong security at every possible level in devices and how easy it can be to retrieve secret keys with basic, inexpensive equipment. “We’re […]

Cryptomathic data protection solution, CardInk, has been selected by Sagem Orga do Brasil smart card manufacturer to deliver secure EMV debit and credit cards. As the second generation of EMV data preparation system for single and multiple application cards, CardInk works to issue MULTOS cards. This addresses the growing need for deploying multiple-application cards to […]

Smart card management software provider Bell ID announced that it has signed with one of Saudi Arabia’s leading banks to issue EMV cards. Bell ID’s software suite, ANDiS will provide the bank, which has no been disclosed, EMV data preparation, smart card and application management, central issuance and instant issuance of EMV cards. The solution […]

A financial institution in North America responding to market demands and growing technology has become the first customer to pick up ANDiS4EMV solutions for their financial security networks. This first new account in the partnership between ACI Worldwide and Bell ID has prompted a worldwide market for Bell ID’s suite of products in the smart […]

A new report from Research and Markets has found that the number of EMV payment smart cards in circulation in Canada is expected to reach 54.8 million this year, representing 43.6% of all payment cards in use. “EMV Migration in Canada: Opportunities and Challenges,” is an independent strategic analysis and forecast on Canada’s EMV migration […]

The new IDENTIKEY Server Banking Edition from VASCO Data Security is now available on the market. The software, which supports EMV-CAP based and Hardware Security Module (HSM) based authentication, also offers VACMAN Controller technology to authenticate users and validate transactions. This software specifically designed for banking purposes utilizes the HSM capability of IDENTIKEY. IDENTIKEY’s standard […]