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International News
The Smart Card Alliance is a founding member of International Smart Card Associations Network (ISCAN), an organization of international associations serving the smart card industry. Each week, the Alliance publishes an industry news summary that highlights international news about the smart card industry. The following are some recent news items we have distributed.
Cards for all occasions
Australian IT - Australia
Thanks to smart cards and a neat payment system, one piece of plastic, known as the Octopus card , pays for anything from phone calls to taxis. ...
US and EU Turn to Israel for Hi-Tech IDs
Arutz Sheva - Israel
... card and e-ID technological solutions to the commercial and government sectors. The company is a leader in the manufacturing of secure and durable smart cards ...
All offices equipped to load smart cards
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
All 96 National Registration Department (NRD) offices are now equipped to load smart card applications to MyKad identity cards . ...
Bus cheats cost city $1M
Edmonton Sun - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
... do is to move away from cash, and that's why our longer-term strategy is to move to things like smart cards , where you in fact load value onto a card and try ...
Consult Hyperion and RFI Global team to deliver smart card ...
Finextra - UK
... RFI- Smart operates full service test laboratories for smart cards and smart card devices including PoS terminals, EFT software, card readers, ATMs, ticketing ...
Recognition for Capitec card
Cape Business News - Cape Town,South Africa
... The Capitec Bank debit card , which allows users to transfer cash from their bank ... EMV is the global standard that ensures that smart cards issued in one country ..
Vasco Buys Dutch ' Smart Card ' Company
Forbes - USA
... Smart cards , used by mainly by banks and credit card companies in Europe, are outfitted with a microchip that can store user information or encryption systems ...
Critics turn up the heat on UK's ID card plan
itWorldCanada.com - Canada
... of biometrics, smart cards and new technology; they are nakedly populist; they make Britain more like our European neighbours, many of whom have identity card ...
Banking on safer cash cards
The Japan Times - Japan
... by a new wave of crime: cash- card forgery. ... to banks, cash withdrawals by forged cards have amounted ... steps, such as issuing chip-containing smart cards that are ...
MasterCard's SA project a highlight
IAfrica South African News - Cape Town,South Africa
... new credit and debit cards to be smart cards , replacing old ... to be able to introduce the cards across all ... is testing customers' acceptance and use of the card .
Visa targets 500,000 Wave cardholders
The Edge Daily - Malaysia
... the card on a pilot project basis via card issuer MBf Cards , which issued over 4,000 Visa Wave cards for use ... The smart card is also usable at 22 million Visa ...
Gemplus takes the SIM into the Multimedia Age With GemXplore ...
mysan.de (Pressemitteilung) - Heidelberg,Germany
... LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world's leading provider of smart card based solutions, today launches its new range of SIM cards designed to ...
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