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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.
Smart Cards in Government, payments focus of Mexico City Conference
SecureIDNews (press release) - Reston,VA,USA
A Mexico City smart card conference, jointly hosted by the Smart Card Alliance and GlobalPlatform, will look at government-issued healthcare cards, ...
Smart card to pass hurdle
Melbourne Herald Sun - Melbourne,Australia
The proposed smart card would replace the Medicare card and become compulsory for any Australian who wants to access up to 16 other Government health and ...
Smart-card ID could ease border restrictions: NB premier
CBC New Brunswick - New Brunswick,Canada
That solution could include new smart-card driver's licences recently introduced in New Brunswick, Graham said, but he admitted the cards are still missing ...
Cellphone transactions, smart cards among latest digital money ...
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
Visa thinks a contactless digital transaction takes less than half the time of a cash one and that people liberated from what happens to be in their wallets ...
Mumbai replicates Europe, gets common card for public transport
Hindustan Times - New Delhi,Delhi,India
With Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav approving the multi-purpose smart cards for railways, Mumbai will finally adopt the European method of public ...
Portugal Launches National ID Smart Card
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
Portugal recently launched a national ID smart card program that will include biometrics and online authentication. A pilot phase for the “Citizen Card” ...
CBA taps smart cards
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
THE days of fumbling for loose change may well be numbered as new credit card technology is expected to dramatically reduce the time shoppers spend at the ...
South Korean Mobile Subscribers Will Tap To Ride
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
Park says the Korea Smart Card Co., which runs the T-money service, will cap the amount prepaid users could reload at any one time. ...
Canada "will have 100m smart cards by 2011"
TUV Product Service - Fareham,Hampshire,UK
An expansion in the use of smart cards is set to be seen in Canada in the coming four years, it has been claimed. New research has found that the number of ...
As Canada's payment cards go to EMV, will fraud migration push US ...
CR80News - Herndon,VA,USA
We?re doing a consumer research piece on Canadians? use of smart card chips and applications such as EMV ? and we're finalizing a book on the payment ...
ASK Opens up TanGO Platform for Calypso Contactless Cards
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
They are now offered multi-source smart card manufacturers. TanGO can clone such legacy cards as GTML, GTML2 and CD97 to carry on existing systems as well ...
Victoria unveils travel smart card
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
A $500 million smart card initiative will be rolled out across Victoria's public transport network within 12 months. But the Victorian government says it ...
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