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International News
The Smart Card Alliance is a founding member of International Smart Card Associations Network (ISCAN), www.iscan.ca, an organization of international associations serving the smart card industry from the United States, Canada, France, India, China, Southern Africa, and Australia. Each week, the Alliance publishes an industry news summary that highlights international news about the smart card industry to its members. The following are some recent international news items we have distributed.
Health smart card data is under your control: Hockey
ZDNet.com.au - Australia
Addressing a smart cards conference in Sydney on the development of the AU$1 billion access card , Hockey moved to allay privacy concerns over the controversial ...
Visa to trial contactless payments
VNUNet.com - UK
... The card will contain a smart chip that sends data via ... where 10 million shoppers use the contacless card , and several ... TfL) wanted to use its Oyster cards as a ...
One card for all e-payments soon
Channel News Asia - Singapore
... and it will provide a standard for contactless smart cards , like the EZlink card and Cashcard. ... for the introduction of this seamless e- payment system, and ...
NFC Mobile Payment Trial in Xiamen China
Technology News Daily - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
... cards and bank payment cards into mobile ... convenient, speedy and fashionable payment instrument ... compatible with current contactless smart card infrastructure, so ...
Healthy respect for smart cards
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... smart cards with personal information as identification - still a relatively rare sight in the US - and he created the idea for a medical smart card that could ...
French Banks Upgrade Security Of EMV Cards
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... At the same time, CB says, the more-powerful smart card chips needed to generate the signatures have come down in price, so that DDA cards cost about the same ...
Nats eye cards to stop benefit misuse
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... only with smart cards similar to existing loyalty cards , which would ... Development Minister David Benson-Pope rejected Mrs Collins' smart - card suggestion, saying ...
Gemalto to rollout healthcare smart cards in Algeria
CIOL - Bangalore,India
... Gemalto will provide CNAS with a microprocessor card -based turnkey ... Gemalto's solution involves smart cards for citizens, for healthcare professionals, the ...
Minister flags e-purse on ID smartcard
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... Curtis, chair of the Asia-Pacific Smart Card Forum, said ... speed and security, but the latest cards allowed both ... Such a dual-interface card had been technically ...
Minister wants single card
Sunday Times.au - Perth,WA,Australia
... Services, Joe Hockey has outlined the case for a single health and social services access card in the opening address at the Australian Smart Cards Summit 2006 ...
Nottage Addresses Implications Of NHI
The Bahama Journal - Nassau,Bahamas
... "In addition, NHI proposes to introduce smart cards for members and ... all members, issue membership cards , and collect ... would swipe the membership card and claims ...
ASSA ABLOY ITG acquires Novacard do Brasil, a leading Brazilian ...
MoreRFID (press release) - TX,USA
... do Brasil, a Brazil-based manufacturer of contactless cards . ... the value chain of smart card and RFID ... tagging, national ID and e - passport programs, transport and ...
Italian Bank To Issue Smart Cards
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
FinecoBank, an Italian Internet bank, is issuing smart cards to 300,000 customers who now use magnetic-stripe credit and debit cards . Card issuing will take ...
Giesecke & Devrient supplies EMV cards to Italy's Fineco
Finextra - UK
German smart card manufacturer Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has won a deal to supply 300,000 EMV smart cards and software to Italian online bank Fineco. ...
Portable payments
China Daily - China
... By waving their NFC-enabled phones close to a payment terminal provided by E-Tong ... E-Tong Card had already issued 850,000 smart cards for electronics ...
One smartcard starts
Australasian Bus and Coach - Australia
A trial of the smart card public transport ticket will start in Brisbane, ahead of ... of scale in developing the complex systems behind the cashless payment system ...
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