San Francisco’s Presidio Bank has added IronKey Trusted Access to its online banking offerings in order to give its customers added protection against identity theft, online account takeover and payments fraud. With Trusted Access, Presidio now meets FFIEC guidance for online banking fraud. It also serves as extra protection in a market where threats of […]

Paydiant, a provider of cloud-based mobile payment solutions, has announced that its mobile payments platform has earned appSecure certification from viaForensics. The certification was issued following an evaluation of the methods used within Paydiant’s mobile wallet solution to prevent the exposure of sensitive data used in processing mobile payments. According to Paydiant, the appSecure certification […]

On Track Innovations (OTI) has been awarded two U.S. patents for its NFC hardware and applications technology. The first patent, titled “Retrofit Contactless Smart SIM Functionality in Mobile Communicators” (U.S. Patent No. 8,195,236), concerns the addition of NFC and contactless payment capabilities to existing mobile handsets through a phone’s existing SIM card. According to OTI, […]

Michelin, one of the world’s largest tire manufactures, is working to introduce a new brand of what it calls “communicating tires,” combing RFID technology with tire pressure monitoring systems, according to Connected World Magazine. The company’s new tire system is currently being launched for a fleet of 100 double-deck businesses in London, just in time […]

M2SYS Technology and The Integrated Systems LLC (TIS) have teamed up to provide biometric options for TIS’ clients in the Middle East. Based in Dubai, TIS will be able to add biometric access control, time and attendance, health care patient identification and AFIS security to its current product lineup. TIS anticipates this will help fill […]

The Isle of Wight Festival in England has partnered with MasterCard to offer festival goers the opportunity to be one of the first to experience the benefits of automatically topping up their contactless prepaid MasterCard PayPass wristbands and also using them to access the event. As part of a trial, 13,000 ticket holders will receive […]

Code retrieved from two Apple iPhone 5 prototypes suggest that the next iPhone will comes with embedded NFC, according to 9to5Mac. The addition of NFC to the iPhone would likely complement Apple’s recently revealed Passbook mobile wallet app, finally pitting Apple against Google, Isis and now Microsoft for control of the mobile payments market. NFC […]

Talk about getting them young…That’s what the College 4 Kids program sponsored by Metropolitan Community College in Omaha is all about. Elementary students ages 5 to 11 can enroll for a maximum of three classes in the week-long program and even receive a Metro student ID card, just like college students. Classes include H2O Science […]

The Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council invites transportation agencies and council members to discuss directions and trends in fare payment at an in-person meeting in Philadelphia, Sept. 18-19, 2012 at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel. The meeting is an invitation to small, medium and large transportation agencies to attend an interactive event with two days of […]

The Association Francaise du Sans Contact Mobile (AFSCM) has announced that more than one million NFC-enabled handsets have been sold to date in France. Spurred on by the country’s Cityzi NFC services platform, the number of NFC phones is expected to continue its upward climb to 2.5 million handsets by the end of the year, […]