If you think that campus ID programs aren’t using smart cards, think again. More than 200 universities have signed on to work with Banco Santander’s University Smart Card program. The massive financial institution based in Spain has issued more than 4 million smart cards to the university ID cardholders for secure contactless access to facilities, […]

HID Global announced that it received EMVCo CL 2.0 Level 1 type approvalfor its OMNIKEY 5321 PAY USB Reader that is designed for contactless payment applications. The reader, which will be introduced at the CARTES & IDentification exhibition in Paris, joins the range of contactless solutions from HID that serve customers in Automatic Fare Collection, […]

Oberthur Technologies’ contactless sticker product–FlyBuy–has been granted approval by Discover Financial Services. Discover’s type approval process ensures that the Discover Zip contactless payment application properly operates on the FlyBuy Sticker and that it is also interoperable with Discover-certified payment terminals. Discover’s credit, debit, and prepaid issuers may now use FlyBuy Sticker for contactless sticker programs. […]

EMVCo, GlobalPlatform and the GSM Association have announced plans to develop a common, cross-industry certification model for secure elements with post-issuance capabilities. The aim is to simplify and speed up testing processes for pre-certified applications and certified UICC platforms, when they are redeployed. The EMV standards body, EMVCo, the international smart card infrastructure body GlobalPlatform, […]

INSIDE Contactless and Mobile Distillery have announced a partnership to create a new NFC mobile application development platform. This partnership is designed to boost the development of NFC applications for the Wave-Me NFC services platform by making it easier for software makers to write applications once and deploy them across a broad range of NFC-enabled […]

Visa Europe has made an investment in authentication company, Emue Technologies. Emue has been working with Visa Europe over the past 18 months to develop the Visa CodeSure solution which provides authentication and transaction security through a unique payment card with an embedded display, microprocessor and numeric keypad. Multiple banks are piloting Visa CodeSure in […]

Trustwave, a provider of on-demand data security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations, has unveiled a token-less two-factor authentication solution. Trustwave’s on-demand two-factor authentication solution couples digital certificates, representing user’s identities, with an existing Virtual Private Network. Trustwave’s on-demand two-factor authentication solution reduces the typical costs associated with token-based authentication, […]

DnB NOR announced NFC pilot MasterCard Worldwide has selected e-security solution provider Cryptomathic to manage the data preparation requirements for its deployment of the MasterCard Mobile Over The Air Provisioning Service to enable MasterCard PayPass application to be provisioned on to mobile phones. The new PayPass offering enables consumers to make small-item purchases with a […]

The North Carolina State University student paper suggests the merger of three separate financial accounts associated with the official AllCampus Card. Currently separate accounts are used for debit purchases, copy services, and discretionary mealplan purchases. Student government representatives, according to an article in the campus newspaper, would like to see these combined into a single […]

VeriFone Holdings Inc. announced that its VeriShield Protect end-to-end encryption solution for card payment security will be available for use with the EMV smart card standard and will also support contactless payments. First introduced in the U.S. to help merchants and acquirers secure cardholder information and comply with PCI data security requirements, VeriShield Protect is […]