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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.
Greece Orders E-Passports
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... ASK is providing the contactless smart card chip and antenna as an inlay placed into the front or back cover of ... ASK also is a contender for the US e - passport . ...
Visa Launches Mobile Visa Wave Payment Pilot in Malaysia
Nikkei Electronics Asia - Hong Kong
... is a major step in contactless card payment and chip ... The mobile Visa wave payment is embedded ... latest cryptography, security and smart card technologies, making ...
MyKad Malaysia Leverages Unisys Expertise to Roll-out Smart Card
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... of government smartcards with over 19 million cards being issued ... private sectors through the use of a single smart card . ... also be used as an ATM card for banks ...
Welfare card gets nod
Border Mail - Albury,New South Wales,Australia
... and that they get the right payment ,” Mr Howard ... include a digital photograph, signature and card number on ... planning to have their own smart cards from next ...
Govt to roll out high-tech welfare card
Seven.com.au - Australia
... and that they get the right payment ," Mr Howard ... include a digital photograph, signature and card number on ... planning to roll out their own smart cards from next ...
Smart licences to collar traffic offenders
Mid-Day Mumbai - Bombay,India
... A few years back the state government had introduced a proposal for Smart Cards , which failed to ... Drivers will get their card on the very day they apply for it ...
ID cards without contact
Register - London,England,UK
... that collected views from smart card producers and ... indicated that the identity card programme is ... both passports and identity cards ), contactless functionality ...
Latin American banks shift their atention towards EMV smart cards
TMCnet - USA
... Assuming that low-income cardholders do eventually use their cards , smart card technology provides a valuable tool for evaluating credit risk. ...
New payment system may take over cash based transaction in Nigeria
Vanguard - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
... impossible to counterfeit and, if a card is lost or ... in conjunction with a PIN numberEMV cards are already ... The first countries to issue EMV smart cards are the ...
Ireland Readies Prohibition Of Chip-And-PIN Bypass
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
Ireland has largely converted its card base from magnetic-stripe cards to more-secure "chip-and-PIN" cards , or smart cards that require entry of a PIN ...
Gemplus To Supply 3.7 Mln Smart Healthcare Cards To Mexican Social
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA
According to the company, these smart cards would be distributed ... said that each family would be given a card . ... view the contents by inserting the cards into a ...
Malaysia issues more ID/ payment smart cards
Thewisemarketer.com (subscription) - UK
The MyKad identity card is a government-issued multi-application smart card , with more than 19 million cards having already been issued so far. ...
Turkish Military Issuing 6,000 To 8,000 ID Cards Per Day
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... contact chip and a 1-kilobyte contactless chip. ... All three cards can be used for identification ... is based on EMV, the international smart card payment standard. ...
ASK selected to deliver several million e-passports to the Greek
SecureIDNews - Reston,VA,USA
French smart card supplier ASK will be supplying several million e ... Its Smart Paper ID solution adapted for the e ... manufactures a large range of cards , tickets and ...
MasterCard and Standard Bank Trial Africa’s First OneSmart
The Asian Banker (subscription) - Singapore
MasterCard PayPass is a " contactless " payment feature that ... foundation to enable new card based opportunities ... taken by MasterCard in smart cards and contactless ...
Finnish Operators Issue SIMs Carrying Digital Certificates
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
Like the ID cards and Visa-branded payment cards issued by OKO Bank that also ... ID along with associated private keys on their tamper-resistant smart card chips. ...
Australia budgets A$1.1B for smart - card development
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
... directly committed to introducing an access card or national smart - card system aside from ... The access cards will be phased in from 2008, replacing 17 different ...
Australians ready for smart cards : Visa
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Fifty per cent said they would like to have Visa smart cards that can ... like to use them to track expenses, to hold cinema tickets and as a frequent flyer card .". ...
OTI Delivers Taipei Fubon Bank Key Fobs Enabling Quicker Purchases
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
(OTI) (Nasdaq: OTIV - News), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions for ... "OTI brings experience in contactless payment that is ...
MoI to issue smart ID cards next year
Peninsula On-line - Qatar
... to issue one million such smart cards was signed here yesterday between two foreign suppliers and Qatar’s Ministry of Interior. The smart card , which will be ...
European Regulators Approve Smart Card Vendor Merger
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... controlled 45% of worldwide banking smart card shipments last year and more than half of shipments of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards for mobile phones. ...
Life Beyond SIM Cards in the Brazilian Smart Card Market
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... the introduction of high-end SIM card , EMV cards ' expansion into the banking and payment market segments, as well as the promise of smart identification into ...
Berlin E - Passport Test Adds New Component
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... process the biometric and other data from a given sample e - passport , or whether ... thought to be moving to e-passports equipped with contactless smart card chips. ...
NFC goes from pilot to commercialized rollout in Germany
SecureIDNews - Reston,VA,USA
... phone sends out the same signals as a contactless card , no upgrades ... that "in Hanau people already had experience with using contactless smart cards ." That's a ...
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