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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.
UK Firm Seeks Big Money For Small-Purchase Smart Card
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... fund the development of a prepaid contactless smart card that consumers ... electronic purse to TfL's Oyster card , which is ... cardholders to use their cards to make ...
ABN AMRO Takes Gradual Approach To Smart Card Conversion
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... banking in the Netherlands, tells Card Technology sister ... begin issuing chip-based debit cards that comply ... global payment standard for smart cards , next month. ...
Nucleus to launch sQuid e-money card in UK
Finextra - UK
... investment bank Rothschild to raise £15 million to fund a contactless payment system to rival Transport for London's (TfL) Oyster smart card , according to a ...
PRECISE BIOMETRICS' PROVIDES MATCH-ON- CARD TECHNOLOGY FOR QATAR ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... Precise Biometrics is part of the consortium awarded for supplying Qatar with national ID cards . Axalto is the smart card supplier, ProtechT is the system ...
Philips, SK Telecom partner for NFC trial in Seoul
Eetasia.com (subscription) - USA
... Duverne said, is that it embeds contactless smart - card technology into ... addresses can be stored in a contactless card that can ... in the form of SD cards that are ...
Ethiopian Bank Launches EMV Card Program
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... will use ACI's Card Management System software to manage the card accounts and its Smart Chip Manager application to personalize the cards ' chips. ...
Paris Widens Contactless Transit Card Program
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... the French capital's card -based contactless fare- payment ... A spokesperson for France-based smart card maker ASK, which is providing the cards , says passengers ...
Korean Fixed-Line Telco To Issue SIM Cards
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... the first WiBro SIMs to KT, the cards will give ... devices–such as notebook PCs, PDAs and smart phones–to ... Park of KTF’s m-Finance team tells Card Technology ...
Smart card debate continues
ABC Online - Australia
... around the world have been embracing so-called smart cards and now the Australian Government has one on the way - rather benignly dubbed the Access Card...
Israel To Launch Contactless Transit-Fare Cards
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... plans to introduce a contactless fare- payment system for ... a contract to supply contactless smart cards for use ... OTI's US subsidiary, tells Card Technology sister ...
Philips Smart Card Chip Technology Secures France E-Passports To ...
IT Backbones (press release) - Emborough,Somerset,UK
... AEX: PHI) today announced that France is the latest country to select secure contactless smart card chip technology ... Any e - passport project must deliver both. ...
Case Study: Chelsea Football Club - Chip & PIN For Payment ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Dione Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Lipman Electronic Engineering Ltd, is the UK's leading supplier of secure Chip & PIN smart card payment terminals and ...
Lloyds TSB Joins Smart Card Parking Program In London
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... US-based card processor First Data Corp., soon will launch a smart card -based payment ... in central London to pay for parking with their credit or debit cards . ...
Taiwan: Chinatrust Commercial Bank launches MasterCard
The Asian Banker (subscription) - Singapore
... NASDAQ: OTIV), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions. ... as a companion device to MasterCard credit cards and has ...
NTT DoCoMo Eyes Phone-Wallet Market In Hong Kong
Cellular-News - UK
... which enables a handset equipped with a contactless integrated circuit (IC) card to provide ... millions of people using the Octopus smart card every day ...
Contactless smart card and student ID in one card at the ...
Security Park - Winkfield,UK
... With the contactless LEGIC smart card for students, professors, employees, guests and visitors ... With this introduction, 1700 student IDs, 300 staff cards and 100 ...
Gemalto First to Achieve New Security Levels Protecting Canadian ...
TMCnet - USA
This is the first card personalization center in ... the predetermined migration to smart payment cards is smooth ... highly personal objects like smart cards , SIMs, e ...
SCM Microsystems Provides Smart Card Readers for European NETC@RDS ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... SCM's smart card readers are compatible with health cards from all countries participating in the NETC@RDS program and compliant to the relevant standards for e ...
The $1billion house of cards
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Instead of creating a smart ID card as in Thailand, China and Britain, the US has mandated minimum security standards for the country's existing ID cards . ...
Taiwan: Chinatrust introduces PayPass-enabled wrist watch
Colloquy.com (subscription) - Milford,OH,USA
... watch equipped with MasterCard PayPass, the contactless payment feature. ... Ltd., a provider of contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions ...
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