A U.S. Government Accountability Office report states that government agencies are making progress issuing interoperable smarty card credentials to employees and contractors but actual use of the high-tech credential isn’t happening very often. The GAO looked at how eight agencies were progressing with their used of PIV credentials. The Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, […]

PATCO, the high speed rail line that runs between Philadelphia and Camden County, N.J., will introduce new contactless Visa fare cards, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The prepaid Visa card will join the existing contactless Freedom card as part of a one-year open fare payments trial on PATCO run by Cubic Transportation Systems. The Visa […]

GlobalPlatform, a non-profit association in the smart chip industry, has announced the launch of its compliance program trademark, designed to ensure the creation of an interoperable end-to-end environment for managing applications on secure chip technology. The association has appointed a dedicated secretariat who will manage all qualification processes for products, test tools and laboratories, as […]

FIME has announced that it will work with the Central Bank of Uzbekistan to supply its physical durability test tools for e-passports. According to FIME, the suite of test tools will be implemented by Uzbekistan’s state production enterprise, Tashkent Paper Mill of GPO Davlat Belgisi, to ensure that all passports comply with physical durability specifications […]

HID Global announced the release of its Asure ID Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables more powerful card personalization software for FARGO and desktop card ID printers. As part of the company’s Asure ID card personalization solutions used by organizations to design, manage, print and encode identification cards, the kit is a set of modules […]

Interac Association has announced that Canada’s Scotiabank is now issuing chip-enabled debit cards with Interac Flash contactless functionality. The new “SCENE ScotiaCard” gives cardholders the choice of paying for smaller value items by simply tapping the card against a contactless reader at the point of sale. According to Interac, Flash builds on the security of […]

Barclaycard has announced that it is helping outfit Timpson and Max Spielmann’s UK stores with new point of sale equipment for contactless payments. Currently the largest shoe repairer, key cutter, engraver and watch repairer in the UK, the Timpson Group will see some 860 stores nationwide equipped with contactless readers, enabling customers to tap and […]