GuestLogix has launched its Global Payment Services to provide airlines and travel operators the ability to transact onboard, or at any travel touch point, while adhering to growing payment certification requirements. GuestLogix’ Global Payment Services supports multiple currencies and payment methods including EMV transactions (both Chip & PIN and Chip & Signature), non-EMV (swipe) transactions, […]

Thales and Aconite have integrated their solutions to support the secure personalization of smart cards, secure elements on mobile phones and other chip-based tokens, as well as the processing of smart transactions. According to the partners, the new offering integrates Aconite’s smart chip issuance and management technology with Thales’ payShield 9000 hardware security modules (HSMs) […]

Research firm NPD In-Stat has released a new report predicting that total mobile payment transactions – mobile payments made via NFC or bar code – will reach 9.9 billion globally in 2016, up from 1.1 billion in 2012. According to NPD, the proximity mobile payments market is still in its infancy, with “weak” infrastructure on […]

In soft drink business, Coke and Pepsi might look the same, but consumers know that these two colas have different flavors. The market for contactless smart cards isn’t much different. The four players that dominate the industry – HID, NXP, Sony and LEGIC – have subtle differences that create the different contactless flavors. In addition […]

E-security products provider Cryptomathic has released the Cryptomathic Cloud Wallet, which enables secure mobile payments through the cloud. Rather than using payment applications that are delivered through EMV chips located in payment cards or on smart phones, the Cloud Wallet links a user’s payment methods and mobile devices to a secure networked platform. To use […]

Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing Co. and the Identive Group have teamed up to develop a new reader designed to handle any type of electronic identity credentials used in Japan. Built with banks and retailers in mind, the NDI711 reader supports NFC-enabled phones, including those using the Osaifu-Keitai Mobile Wallet, along with Type A/Type B contactless […]

NXP Semiconductor demonstrated an RFID- and NFC-enabled smart washing machine at the Embedded World exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany. The washing machine can detect what is placed in the laundry and reads information about the fabric type and color from RFID-tagged buttons. This also helps to avoid mixing white and dark laundry, and optimizes the washing […]