DUBLIN, Ireland, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ – Trintech Group Plc (Nasdaq: TTPA; Neuer Markt: TTP), a leading provider of secure payment infrastructure solutions, today announced the successful EMV Level 2 certification of its smart card-enabled POS terminal and PINPad solutions. Trintech has been successfully developing and deploying standards-based smart solutions to merchants and resellers for over […]

DUBLIN, Ireland, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ –Trintech Group Plc (Nasdaq: TTPA; Neuer Markt: TTP), a leading provider ofsecure payment infrastructure solutions, today announced the successful EMVLevel 2 certification of its smart card-enabled POS terminal and PINPadsolutions. Trintech has been successfully developing and deploying standards-basedsmart solutions to merchants and resellers for over 10 years.  The latest EMVcertification […]

MasterCard Partners with Chase, Citibank, MBNA and Multiple Merchants in an Orlando, Florida Market Trial to Offer Consumers a “Simpler Way to Pay” Purchase, NY, December 12, 2002 – MasterCard International today announced MasterCard PayPass™, a new “contactless” card payment program that provides consumers with a simpler way to pay. Using MasterCard PayPass, consumers simply […]

Hypercom Corporation Announces: Inside Job At Credit Bureau Is Latest In Multi-Billion Dollar Credit Rip-Offs ID Theft, Credit Card Skimming, Stolen Cards Cost $4 + Billion Annually New Technologies Ready To Roll To Combat Card Criminals: Industry Must Move Faster The $2.7 million + loss resulting from the ID theft credit fraud at a New […]

Company offers new standards-based solutions for MasterCard and Visa issuers Paris, France — November 5, 2002 — Datacard Group introduced a portfolio of solutions at CARTES 2002 today that greatly simplifies the transition from magnetic stripe cards to EMV (Europay/MasterCard/Visa) compliant smart cards. Banks, service bureaus and other card issuers can use these solutions to […]

Coalition-Based Rewards Programs with Open and Real-Time Redemption Will Transform Rapidly Growing Consumer Loyalty Industry SHCDirect (SHCD) and Smart Chip Technologies (OTC: SCTN) are pleased to announce an agreement to co-market, link, and bundle each other’s loyalty systems in order to offer a new business model for coalition style, smart card-based consumer rewards programs featuring […]

Bank-issued payment cards have traditionally been considered among the least likely markets for contactless cards to crack. In North America, advanced payment technologies have struggled to gain ground because of the deeply entrenched base of magnetic stripe point of sale terminals. In Europe and Asia contact chip cards have been making steady headway due to […]

Mastercard has announced partners for the launch of the new contactless payment program PayPass. An estimated 15,000 consumers will participate in a trial with numerous merchants in the Orlando, Florida area. The card/terminal interaction is based the Mastercard Proximity Chip – Online Profile, which is a subset of EMV/ISO 7816 commands. Issuers: Chase, Citibank, MBNA […]

Japanese credit-card giant JCB Co. Ltd. is backing three Asian contactless card projects, convinced consumers will appreciate the quicker throughput and convenience of contactless technology. Two projects are in Japan while a third is in Taiwan. In Taiwan, JCB issuer Taipai Bank already has distributed roughly 3,000 smart cards to employees of First International Computers, […]

In 1985 Joe Capers was tinkering with vending machines, coin mechanisms, and card readers in his garage in Brentwood, Tennessee. He figured out how to make a card reader speak to a vending machine and immediately saw a need for his product. He found a client in the North Georgia Food Service Company, a group […]