Heartland Payment Systems announces the launch of E3, a new payment card product with end-to-end encryption technology. The E3 comes out of a two year project to improve the protection credit and debit cardholders receive by creating a system in which the vulnerable sensitive information of the cardholder is made useless to hackers. The past […]

Cubic Transportation Systems has been awarded a $10 million contract to manage and operate the SmarTrip Regional Customer Service Center (RCSC) for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in D.C. SmarTrip is WMATA’s smart card-based fare collection system, designed and integrated by Cubic more than 10 years ago. Cubic’s services for the RCSC will […]

The United Arab Emirates is experiencing a delay in its commercial launch of NFC mobile payment due to a lack of phones, readers and SIM cards, according to Emirates Business 24/7. The shortage has put on hold two major deployments – one involving Dubai First Bank and Telecom service provider Du; the other involving etisalat, […]

The multi-function, multi-app smart card may not be such a mythical beast Multi-function cards on college campuses aren’t new. Student IDs have paid for meals, accessed residence halls and checked out library books for decades. But adding applications that can be used outside of the university has been more difficult. Off-campus merchant programs are common […]

Mastercard’s PayPass contactless payment system is set to arrive in Azerbaijan and Russia, according abc.az.com. The executive director of The Milli Kart processing company in Azerbaijan says company has begun preparations for PayPass, but is still in the process of determining the cost for chips, readers and other services. Meanwhile, Ekspobank and Sberbank of Russia […]

MasterCard and Gemalto have announced a new pilot featuring an NFC-enabled device that can be inserted into a mobile phone to turn it into payment device. The wafer-thin device, which leverages Gemalto’s Upteq N-Flex Solution and MasterCard’s PayPass, is the first of its kind to function on multiple mobile handsets, which Gemalto says will help […]

Aconite, a smart card business software and consulting services provider, announced that Datacard Asia Pacific has been awarded the contract to supply Aconite’s smart card management solution, Affina Enterprise, to ICBC, China’s largest bank. ICBC chose Affina Enterprise to enable them to personalize card services at both the regional and individual level through the upload […]

The U.S. Department of Defense is planning to pilot using its Common Access Card for access to public transportation, says Bob Gilson, management and program analyst at the Defense Manpower Data Center in the DOD. Gilson made the comments during a session at the Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Gilson has been […]

Starting June 16th, San Francisco will begin issuing new Clipper smart transit cards in place of existing TransLink passes. The new Clipper cards, which get their name from the speedy ships, work in the exact same way as TransLink, only the smart chip is embedded within the card, rather than displayed on the front. Old […]

Newport Bus of Wales is implementing a new contactless fare collection system, according to BBC News. Newport Bus, along with the assembly government, will make some 650,000 smart cards available for purchase to Welsh riders, who can use the cards to pay for fares by simply tapping their cards against an onboard reader. The passes […]