Fort Lee, NJ-based On Track Innovations, a contactless smart card solutions provider, says it has been selected by E-Kent, an automatic fare collection company in Turkey, to provide transportation payment solutions based on OTI’s Smart Sticker product and Saturn 6000 contactless reader. The system calls for making available alternative distribution channels for E-Kent’s main transportation […]

Digital security provider Gemalto has been selected by Le Crédit Lyonnais for the first banking card customized with a personal photograph in France. This EMV card is designed for students and aims to combine the advantages of a payment card with those of the International Student Identity Card. With the ISIC card, users can make […]

Technology may be a solution to domestic payment card fraud By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications Like a massive tidal wave, EMV continues to roll across the world, changing the global payments landscape. Since UK banks first committed to EMV five-years ago, more than 100 countries have taken the plunge in efforts to stem […]

VeriFone Holdings Inc. has announced a plug-and-play solution for adding contactless card payment acceptance to existing POS devices, electronic cash registers and PCs. The QX1000 is based on an architecture that utilizes a single contactless interface. The QX1000 is suited to EMV and mag-stripe contactless cards from Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, as well […]

Bell ID announced that its Card & Application Management System (ANDiS) has been selected by Universal Payment Services, a transaction service provider of payment card services in the Middle East and Africa, to enable EMV smart card issuing solutions. Bell ID’s ANDiS platform will initially perform EMV data preparation to provide EMV issuing services for […]

MasterCard Worldwide and Cryptography Research announced an agreement that ensures future chip-based MasterCard payment products will be licensed by Cryptography Research and thus secured against Differential Power Analysis (DPA) attacks. Cryptography Research identified the smart card vulnerability known as DPA and then patented countermeasures to protect chips against the attack. The company has been working […]

With Canada and Mexico both going to EMV and most of the rest of the world doing the same it may be a matter of time before U.S. card issuers are forced to go to chip and PIN. EMV in the U.S. was the topic of a panel at the CTST Conference in New Orleans. […]

Three of Switzerland’s leading telecommunications companies, Orange, Sunrise and Swisscom, have formed a work group to compile standards that would make NFC technology easier to adopt by service providers, leading to production of more NFC-compliant phones that can be used for payments and ticketing. By the end of 2010 the group hopes to be able […]

Is Chip and PIN on the horizon? The Payment Card Industry rules are policies retailers must follow to keep consumer credit and debit card information safe. But with data breaches still occurring on a regular basis there are some questions as to how much they protect consumers. In late March, the U.S. House of Representative’s […]

The United Kingdom is considering adding EMV functionality to its ID cards, according to ZDNet UK. EMV is used in UK payment cards to protect against fraud and some say it can be useful while others say it’s not secure enough. With chip-and-PIN cardholders could access government and private-sector services online using the PIN to […]