The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) expects to award a contract for its long-awaited contactless fare payments system this month, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The $100 million system will enable some 3.9 million people in and around Philadelphia to use contactless credit or debit cards, as well as SEPTA smart cards and mobile phones, […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the fall 2011 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools are in the process of moving to a unified card system, combining the district-issued city bus pass, school library card, student ID and lunch number all into one. According to The Tennessean, the district just entered a five-year contract for $60,000 worth of machines, software and licensing and an additional $6,000 […]

CIM USA and SmartSoft announced a partnership to provide EMV-based payment solutions to financial card issuers and bureaus in the United States. The move is intended to support the U.S. banking and card payment industries’ transition to EMV and NFC based payment technologies outlined by VISA. CIM is a U.S. based provider of central and […]

Vodafone Italia has teamed up with CartaSi to offer customers a prepaid card that can be used to purchase goods via NFC technology. Launched with the support of MasterCard and l’Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane, Vodafone’s Smart Pass card can be used for both contactless payments at PayPass-enabled points of sale, as well as […]

Subway, the world’s largest sandwich chain, has announced it will begin accepting MasterCard PayPass contactless payments at more than 7,000 U.S. locations by the end of the first quarter of 2012. The new system will enable customers to simply tap their PayPass-enabled MasterCard card, mobile phone, key fob or any other device on a contactess […]

The September meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a […]

OfficeMax has deployed new payment terminals in more than 100 stores in support of Google’s mobile contactless payments service, Google Wallet. Google Wallet users can now pay for their office supplies with a single tap of their NFC-enabled phone, as well as redeem coupons and earn points with OfficeMax’s MaxPerks Rewards loyalty program. The new […]

Speaking at 5th annual Islamic Banking exhibition in Tehran, Watchdata announced that it will work with Padisar Informatics to deliver and promote NFC mobile banking solutions in Iran. For the first time, exhibition attendees were privy to a demonstration of NFC technology via Watchdata’s range of payment and mobile banking solutions, including the SIM card-based […]

With the CARTES 2011 show around the corner, the conference has announced the SESAMES finalists. Among 317 submissions, the finalists for the 10 categories of the SESAMES Award competition have been selected. The SESAMES Awards Finalists will be presented at CARTES & IDentification on the SESAMES Area, hall 4. The winners will be announced during […]