Some are calling for the BC Gold cards used in British Columbia’s casinos to contain software that will give gamblers an early warning before their spending gets out of control, according to CTV. Currently the smart card functions only as a kind of loyalty card, with players able to receive $1 for every $200 they […]

The CBORD Group announced that its customer, Carleton University was honored with two awards at the National Association of Campus Card Users conference last month – one awarded to the university as a whole, and one to its Campus Card Manager, Kathleen Kelly. Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the Carleton University received the Excellence in […]

The International Card Manufacturers Association (ICMA) announced the winners of its annual Élan Awards for Card Manufacturing Excellence at a 20th anniversary gala celebration and awards ceremony on as part of its four day Card Manufacturing and Personalization EXPO at the Camelback Inn, a JW Marriott Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prior to recognizing the winners […]

Programs drawing interest from national retailers Dominican College in Orangeburg, N.Y. has 2,050 students with about 700 living on campus. The school’s campus ID is used for access to meal plans, physical areas, vending, photocopying, laundry and an off-campus program that has been in place for seven years. The institution launched the off-campus program to […]

Hypercom Corporation has introduced its new L5000 product family of customer-facing, multipurpose, multimedia and multilane payment terminals. In addition to traditional checkout line functions, the L5000 line can perform in-aisle product locating, bar code price checking, health insurance card processing at the pharmacy, gift card loading and wedding registry processing at kiosks. The new Linux-based […]

McDonald’s and Tribal DDB of Chicago are building a Facebook app that will allow users to update their status by “checking in” at the fast food chain, according to Advertising Age. McDonald’s will be the first marketer to take advantage of this new geolocation service. This may even lead to McDonald’s using RFID tags to […]

Barclaycard has bought naming rights for London’s Wembley Arena for the next five years in a deal that will allow the company to install contactless payment points throughout the popular music venue, according to Marketing Week. The venue will now be called, “Wembley Arena, a Barclaycard Unwind Venue,” a name which refers to the company’s […]

Nottingham Gateway Hotel has become the first hotel in the UK to introduce a loyalty scheme using sQuid’s contactless smart card solution. The hotels new ‘We Love to Reward You’ loyalty program offers guests contactless smart cards that can be used to make purchases in the hotel and rack up rewards points redeemable in the […]

Pioneering FSUCard embarks on next chapter selecting new bank and electronic financial aid delivery partner Florida State University and its FSUCard program are credited with helping to pioneer campus card banking partnerships. The university inked its first deal twenty-years ago and have been evolving the ID-bank relationship ever since. This spring the campus is going […]

The University of Denver’s hotel, restaurant and tourism school is launching NFC mobile payment at the campus’ student run coffee shop, according to americanbanker.com. Students and faculty will be able to use their mobile phones to make point-of-sale purchases, as well as add money to their accounts and check balances and transaction histories. Mocapay is […]