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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.
'Multiple benefits' found to drive EMV adoption
Thewisemarketer.com (subscription) - UK
... Of course, one of the key reasons for shifting to smart card -based payment cards will be the migration deadlines and liability shift set by both Visa and ...
Visa urges more attention to data security
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... The service is available at www.scanalert.com. * Chip Cards / Smart Cards migration: Chip card migration programs are being run at the national level in four ...
The What, Who and Why of Contactless Payments
ePaymentsnews Network (subscription) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
A contactless payment device contains a smart chip and an ... a payment card or handing a card to a ... of-sale terminals to accept the new contactless payment cards.
RFID payments on track in Scandinavia
Silicon.com - UK
... With similarities to the Oyster Card programme running in London, the system being ... will see commuters able to pay for travel using RFID-chipped smart cards . ...
KT, Axalto Team Up To Develop Smartcard for WiBro
Telecoms Korea (subscription) - South Korea
The smart card embedded in the WiBro terminals contains personal information ... as electronic payments, Internet banking, and membership or identification cards . ...
Visa urges more attention to data security
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... Chip Cards / Smart Cards migration: Chip card migration programs are ... In Malaysia, the chip payment infrastructure is now in place and has delivered a ...
UOB targets 100,000 Vox Visa Wave cardholders by year-end
The Edge Daily - Malaysia
... that patrons to GSC could use their VOX cards to pay ... said Visa International launched the world's first contactless Visa Wave smart card pilot project ...
Gemplus delivers SafesITe smart identity management system to ...
Security Park - Winkfield,UK
... The objective of implementing smart cards is to improve the overall ... the intrinsic security, convenience, and provisioning benefits of smart card -based identity ...
NTT DoCoMo to offer credit- card payments by handset
Infoworld - Netherlands
... contactless smart card technology embedded in its latest cell phone handsets, it said Tuesday. The service will be branded "ID" and will launch Dec. 1 on cards ...
New Locks, New Keys
CIO Asia - Singapore
... workers and government employees all use smart card IDs will ... He ultimately envisions ID cards that everyone carries ... driver's license and a credit or debit card . ...
Christopher Rodrigues: Visa is far more than just a card , says its ...
Independent - London,England,UK
... Visa's horizon is to create multi-application smart cards that will ... And the cards of the future won't just hold ... A Visa " card " measuring only 40mm by 66mm and .
Setec, a Gemplus Company, Delivers the First Volumes of Biometric ...
PR Newswire UK (press release) - London,UK
... The Swedish passport and EID cards are based on remarkably safe and sophisticated smart card products that make them hard to forge. ...
BBVA Bancomer Boosts its EMV Roll Out With 100,000 Personal ...
PR Newswire UK (press release) - London,UK
... customers will enjoy a richer payment experience, beyond ... the first full-featured chip card program in ... offer, as more than 1,800,000 smart cards have already ...
Muehlbauer launches "Express Solutions" for ePassport and ID Card ...
Packaging & Converting Essentials (press release) - Antwerp,Belgium
... is the leading supplier of production equipment for the Smart Card industry ... to manufacture any type of Chip Card , including ID Cards , ePassports, eVisa ...
Atmel Debuts Multiple Smart Card Reader Interface
IQ Online - Paris,France
According to Atmel, the AT83C26 is the industry's first multiple analogue smart card interface which can physically handle up to 5 smart cards ...
Call for ID cards to get smart
BBC News - UK
... way in Hong Kong, with 3.5 million cards already in ... There is also room on the card for adding new ... citizens can also use their government-issued smart card as a ...
Sun Demos Java Card Platform on Contactless Smart Cards
Wireless Design & Development Asia - Singapore
Sun announced the worldwide availability and deployment of contactless smart cards running on Java Card technology with demonstrations of the Java Card ...
Smart cards for travellers to Singapore
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
Malaysia and Singapore have agreed in principle to introduce a smart card system for frequent travellers. The move, expected to ...
Samsung Introduces 2 MB Flash Memory-Embedded Smart Card IC
IT News Online - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
... GPRS and IMT2000 as well as JAVA and multimedia cards . With the introduction of the new S3FJ91L, Samsung has now established a full line of smart card ICs with ...
Visa smart card making waves
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
... on the Europay-MasterCard-Visa smart card standard, the ... an embedded antenna, transfers payment details via ... implementation of Visa Wave contactless readers in ...
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