EMV Specialist Consultancy Team provides EMV Strategy and Migration Paths to Leading International Financial Institutions Phoenix, AZ and Woking, UK, August 20, 2003 – The First National Bank of South Africa, a division of FirstRand Bank Ltd, a leading bank in South Africa, has selected advanced networking technology and up to 5,000 EMV-certified ICE? card […]

EMV Specialist Consultancy Team provides EMV Strategy and Migration Paths to Leading International Financial Institutions Phoenix, AZ and Woking, UK, August 20, 2003 – The First National Bank of South Africa, a division of FirstRand Bank Ltd, a leading bank in South Africa, has selected advanced networking technology and up to 5,000 EMV-certified ICE? card […]

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 21, 2003–Visa International announced today the launch of a new smart card product costing just US$1.98 and has further reduced the costs of a range of card products launched under the Visa Smart Breakthrough Card program. The price reductions mean that Visa smart card costs have fallen up to 40 per cent […]

Geneva, July 17, 2003 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) today announcedthat CSOB Bank in the Czech Republic and Kredyt Bank Poland have received VISA certification for the personalization of their Proton Prisma cards and will begin a mass roll-out of these cards in the next few weeks. Both banks are part of the KBC Bank & […]

 TORONTO, Ontario–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 24, 2003–Canada is joining the global migration to a new generation of Visa cards containing a chip with a microcomputer, Visa Canada announced today. The Visa chip card is capable of supporting multiple applications and data securely, and can make cardholder-specific decisions such as approving or declining transactions without unnecessary communications expense. […]

PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 17, 2003–Schlumberger Smart Cards and Terminals (NYSE:SLB) released its annual smart card analysis today. After a year treading water, shipment rates of microprocessor cards surged back into double-digits with a 13% rise in 2002. Although the general economic climate impacted margins, there are still strong prospects: As a corollary of the increasing need […]

More Than Ten Million Visa EMV Smart Cards Issued in Asia Pacific SINGAPORE, March 12 /PRNewswire/ – Visa Asia Pacific today announced it continues to make solid progress towards chip migration in key Asia Pacific markets. Thirty Visa members are implementing EMV chip programs, more than ten million Visa EMV cards have been issued in […]

DENVER and PHOENIX, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – In a major attack on credit card and electronic transaction fraud, First aSuretee, LLC, a First Data Corp. (NYSE: FDC) subsidiary, and Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) today introduced a point-to-point electronic transaction and identification verification system for the U.S. government and corporate America. The new solution has the […]

Minnetonka, MN – February 3, 2003 – Datacard Group today announced the implementation of the Datacard® Affina™ life cycle management system through a partnership with LogicaCMG, who have been appointed by Luottokunta to provide Finland’s first national smart card payment program. Datacard Group will implement the Affina™ life cycle management system which will provide all […]

Trintech Achieves EMV Level 2 Certification for POS Terminal and PINPad Solutions from EMVCo; Trintech’s Leading Merchant Solutions Approved to Accept EMV Smart Cards By Industry Body, Enabling More Secure and Flexible Card Transactions PR Newswire January 14, 2003Trintech Group Plc (Nasdaq: TTPA; Neuer Markt: TTP), a leading provider of secure payment infrastructure solutions, today […]