Canada’s debit and credit card payments market will suffer in the immediate future from the worsening worldwide economy, but a new study points out that long term, both forms of payment will capture a greater share of all consumer expenditures. It also projects that contactless payments will see the highest growth spurt over the next […]

Gemalto announced that its Ezio Pocket Reader is the first certified reader made available to the market for MasterCard Advanced Authentication for Chip. The Advanced Authentication for Chip specification enables two-factor authentication on any EMV card already in use, whether or not it has been personalized according to the MasterCard Chip Authentication Program. It also […]

Barclays is going to stay issuing Visa payWave cards to all its debit cardholders. Starting in March, most Barclays debit cards that are issued or reissued will have contactless technology. More than three million customers are expected to be using contactless debit cards by the end of the year. The new cards will enable transactions […]

By Paul Beverly, president, Gemalto North America Here are some interesting statistics from 2008: The Federal Trade Commission estimates that as many as nine million Americans have their identities stolen each year. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse estimates 245 million records have been compromised due to security breaches since January 2005. The sting operation by security […]

Austrian watch maker LAKS and Austria Card, a card personalization center, have completed their joint development of a MasterCard-approved PayPass contactless wristwatch, dubbed the LAKS Smart Transaction Watch 2. This second generation watch includes a “Slide In System” for a SIM card-shaped payment card which enables the card issuer to use its existing card personalization […]

Collis announced that Visa Inc. has confirmed the Global Chip Card Validation implementation for use in connection with Visa programs in the Collis EMV Personalization Validation Tool. The Collis EMV Personalization Validation Tool is a solution designed to check if your cards are personalized correctly. The Collis EMV PVT gives an issuer quality control over […]

By Mohammad Khan, President and Founder, ViVOtech Inc. With the current credit-crunch situation in worldwide financial markets, 2009 will be a challenging year for many different industries, including ours. However, I see contactless payment rollouts to see positive growth in 2009 across all major continents. The good news is that we already have more than […]

Digital security provider Gemalto is supplying the Banco Santander Universities Group, which currently partners with 700 universities around the world, with multi-functional contactless campus ID cards that can be used as a debit card while controlling access to university buildings. It is Brazil’s first multi-functional smart card for universities combining EMV payment and contactless access […]

Litle & Co., a payment management platform for merchants in direct-to-consumer commerce, has named a former MasterCard executive to its newly-created position of “payments evangelist.” Tom Pouliot’s goal will be to educate employees and merchants while also serving as briefings executive on the payments industry-at-large, market trends, issues and competitive positioning. Pouliot has served the […]

Company has come a long way from seven guys wanting to make their own contactless chips INSIDE Contactless might never have seen the light of day had Gemplus 13-years ago accepted the suggestion of some of its engineers to begin producing its own chips. Gemplus, which later merged with Axalto to become the largest smart […]