Ingenico has launched its contactless payment solutions in Spain for Repsol, an oil and gas company, and Caprabo, a supermarket company based with online shopping and delivery service. Both companies have chosen Ingenico’s iPP320 POS terminal, which has the required certificates from leading world markets including EMV 4.0 levels 1 and 2 and the PCI […]

Atlantic Zeiser, a provider of card personalization solutions, announced that CPI Card Group has installed the CHIPLINE contactless smart card and smart ticket personalization system in its Nevada, U.S. facility. CPI Card Group will use CHIPLINE to perform high-volume personalization of contactless payment and non-payment cards, enabling the company to reach production volumes of up […]

Intuit provided a pilot program in the U.K. that will enable small businesses to easily, securely and cheaply accept card payments from anywhere. The new Intuit Pay solution comes from the makers of QuickBooks and will include a free mobile app with a low-cost chip and PIN card reader. The Intuit Pay solution— being tested […]

Frost & Sullivan has completed analysis that shows the adoption of EMV as a global standard will help with payment card fraud prevention. Card fraud continues to be a major concern for the industry. In 2011, card fraud was EUR 1.314 million in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), an increase of 4.3%. In the […]

E-security solutions provider Cryptomathic announced that it has joined with Smart Card Alliance and its EMV Migration Forum, to bolster secure chip-based technology adoption efforts in the United States. With a background in providing e-security solutions to a number of sectors, Cryptomathic will bring experience with regards to enhancing the security and integrity of data […]

Discover has unveiled a new strategy and roadmapfor EMV migration that will include its Discover Network, Diners Club International, PULSE and Discover Card utilities. According to a release on Discover’s site, the new strategy is mindful of the U.S. EMV migration timelines in place and will introduce Fraud Liability Shift for Discover Network in the […]

Discover Financial Services plans to pilot a biometric and contactless card system to learn the viability of biometric consumer payments, reports Finextra. The pilot will take place in the U.S., and Discover is working with French firm Natural Security on the program. The trial will have biometric data linked to a contactless card that will […]

Eurosmart confirms the forecast from last April of the total shipment of microcontroller-based Smart Secure Devices to more than 7 billion units in 2012. To put this number into perspective, it means close to 20 million people are receiving a secure and personalized device worldwide every day. Eurosmart expects strong growth to continue in all […]

Cirque announced its latest GlideSecure trackpad solution which features on-board EMV contactless card reading functionality and integration with SecureKey Technologies’ authentication services. As a fully integrated technology solution, Cirque’s secure input solutions with SecureKey’s technology will provide an solution for payment and authentication peripherals, as well as in consumer electronics such as notebook PCs and […]

Bell ID, a smart token management solution provider, is the latest company to join the Smart Card Alliance’s EMV Migration Forum. This forum is designed to help companies from various industries come together to drive the EMV payments technology implementation in the U.S. Bell ID will contribute its know-how in terms of provisioning and managing […]