Executive Director's Letter - February 2010 |
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February 2010 has been an active month on many fronts for the U.S. smart card industry. It has been so busy, we couldn’t stop long enough to get you the February monthly newsletter until early March! What has been so important to keep everyone busy? The answer is summed up in three letters – EMV. Fresh off the heavily viewed webinar (over 317 viewers) that the Smart Card Alliance presented in January, Top Ten Reasons U.S. Should Consider EMV, it seems as if the discussion really started to heat up in February.
The month began with an announcement that some people feared might shake the confidence of the entire payments industry. Read more…
Smart Card News: Members |
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- Gemalto's Innovative Machine-to-Machine Solution Receives "2009 SmartGrid Product of the Year"Award from TMC.com
- Oberthur Technologies Receives Product Innovation Award
- Doctors and First Responders Rely on Oberthur Technologies in Times of Emergency
- Smart Card Alliance Latin America Announces 2010 Executive Committee
- LaserCard Wins Vehicle Registration Card Program in Middle East
- Gemalto and Microsoft to Demonstrate Integrated Forefront Identity Manager and Strong Authentication Solution at RSA Conference 2010
- EMV and Transit Chip Payment Gaining Momentum in U.S.
- IDmachines and Probayes join forces to bring powerful predictive analytics to the United States' enterprise security and information technology markets
- AMAG Technology Proudly Presents Top Resellers with Awards
- Gemalto Teams with IBM to Deliver an Improved Identity Security Solution that Simplifies Authentication for Users
- Read more Smart Card Industry News …
Smart Card Industry News (NEW) |
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- ActivIdentity unveils PIV-I program
- Miami-Dade makes launching a contactless fare collection system easy
- National ID cards: Changing perspectives?
- Colorado town leading the way with contactless payments, rewards
- Episode 47: Health ID initiatives
- FedExField deploying biometric credentials
- Cubic to deliver smart card fare system for South Florida
- Online gambling goes contactless
- idOnDemand announces featured product at HIMSS Conference
- Biometrics a desire for next gen phones
Join the Alliance |
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Our mission is to accelerate the widespread adoption, usage, and application of smart card technology in North America by bringing together users and technology providers in an open forum to address opportunities and challenges for our industry.
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Smart Card Reports |
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- Planning for New Fare Payment and Collection Systems: Cost Considerations and Procurement Guidelines
- A Guide to Prepaid Cards for Transit Agencies
- Vanderhoof presents new education partnership at Jan 27 Federal IAB Meeting Play Audio
- January 2010 ISCAN Newsletter
- EMV Migration Study and Market Analysis on Mexico and Brazil
- EMV Chip Cards Expected for Upscale U.S. Cardholders
- Authentication Mechanisms for Physical Access Control Systems
- Fraud in the U.S. Payments Industry: Fraud Mitigation and Prevention Measures in Use and Chip Card Technology Impact on Fraud
- Healthcare Identity Management: The Foundation for a Secure and Trusted National Health Information Network
- Identifiers and Authentication – Smart Credential Choices to Protect Digital Identity
- End-to-End Encryption and Chip Cards in the U.S. Payments Industry
- Issuer and Merchant Best Practices: Promoting Contactless Payments Usage and Acceptance
- Protecting Your Health Information: Raising Public Awareness of the Privacy and Security Challenges of Healthcare Information Management Play Video
- Smart Card Technology in Healthcare: Frequently Asked Questions
- Security of Proximity Mobile Payments
- Effective Healthcare Identity Management: A Necessary First Step for Improving U.S. Healthcare Information Systems
- A Healthcare CFO’s Guide to Smart Card Technology and Applications
- Interoperable Identity Credentials for the Air Transport Industry
- What Makes a Smart Card Secure?
- Emergency Response Official Credentials: An Approach to Attain Trust in Credentials across Multiple Jurisdictions for Disaster Response and Recovery
- Using FIPS 201 and the PIV Card for the Corporate Enterprise
- Contactless Payments: Merchant ROI Model
- Proximity Mobile Payments Business Scenarios: Research Report on Stakeholder Perspectives
- Find more Smart Card Reports …
Industry Information |
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The Smart Card Alliance brings you a wealth of information about smart card technology and its applications.
- Smart Card Technology Primer
- Smart Card Applications
- Smart Card Glossary
- Smart Card FAQ
- FIPS 201 Resources
- Contactless Payments Resources
Latin America Chapter |
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The Latin American smart card market is growing, and the Smart Card Alliance has formed a new Latin American chapter to bring together smart card suppliers, partners and customers in order to address the challenges facing smart card deployment in the region.
- Read more about our Latin America Chapter …
