Two European service station giants are upgrading to contactless payment, according to Scottrade. Orlen Germany, subsidiary of PKN Orlen, is installing contactless payment terminals in its German service stations, and France’s Carrefour has announced plans to implement contactless readers throughout its entire network. Orlen, who is partnering with Scheidt & Bachmann for the project, has […]

Demand for added security and more intelligent ways-to-pay are on the up, according to Smart Payment Association (SPA) in its annual review of the payment smart cards market. According to the figures, the smart payment sector remained strong in 2009, showing steady growth throughout the year. SPA says expansion is expected to continue at pace […]

Fidelity Systems and Magna Carta Chipcard Solutions has been selected for Keele University to deploy a next generation electronic point of sale solution incorporating cashless payment, according to a BFNNews report. The university’s new system will include a combination of the Fidelity GPoS solution integrated with the Magna Carta FacilityPro cashless payment system across the […]

The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has finally launched its long-anticipated smart card transit system, according to thestar.com. After four years of waiting, conctactless Presto cards are now being accepted at the Oakville GO station, which sees about 12,000 passengers a day, and will soon be implemented in the rest of Go Transit’s Lakeshore West corridor. […]

Scalby School officials are receiving a lot of heat from their decision to implement biometric equipment, according to a local news report. The school, located in Scarborough, UK, recently introduced a cashless payment system and library checkout program that functions by reading students’ fingerprints. School officials assure parents that the fingerprint system is not nearly […]

SmartMetric has announced plans to “significantly” penetrate the EMV credit and debit smart card market. EMV, which comes from the initial letters of Europay, MasterCard and VISA, is widely becoming the global standard in the migration from magnetic stripe cards to chip based smart cards, says SmartMetric. The company plans to open up its own […]

Cubic Corporation announced it has signed a contract with Australia’s Public Transport Ticketing Corporation (PTTC) to provide greater Sydney’s Electronic Ticketing System. The contract is valued at $370 million ($398 million Australian) for the design, development, implementation and fixed maintenance components of the smart card-based system, which will be modeled after Cubic’s own Oyster Card […]

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 […]

The RZB (Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich) of the Raiffeisen Banking Group out of Austria has recently adopted Gemalto security solutions for their customized payment card designs. Gemalto’s Web-based technology enables users to customize their EMV payment card with a picture of their own choice making it the first picture card program in Austria’s banking community. Gemalto’s […]

Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist at Cryptography Research Inc., demonstrates the company’s Differential Power Analysis Workstation at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Kocher talks about why it’s important to have strong security at every possible level in devices and how easy it can be to retrieve secret keys with basic, inexpensive equipment. “We’re […]