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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 Card Association rebuffs RFID fraud claims
Finextra - UK
The Smart Card Association (SCA) has dismissed claims by US researchers that a security flaw in RFID contactless payment cards leaves customers open to fraud. ...
Dubai Airport opts for contactless technology
Security Document World (press release) - Cardiff,UK
... card management and issuing system, which controls the data entry, enrolment, issuance, personalisation, RFID encoding capabilities and contactless smart cards ...
Gemalto provides first VISA Java EMV cards in Hong Kong
SecureIDNews (press release) - Reston,VA,USA
... delivered the first Visa Java EMV cards to DBS ... specialist and one of the leading card issuers in ... marks a significant milestone for smart card development in ...
Oberthur unveils smart card for loyalty schemes
Thewisemarketer.com (subscription) - UK
The growth in loyalty schemes across the world can be measured by the number of cards in the wallet, according to Oberthur Card Systems, which has launched a ...
NXP Announces security for contactless smart cards
ECN Asia - Singapore
... Additionally, smart card solutions enabled by the new IC ... convenience of only needing one card to access ... primarily for transport schemes, citizen cards and ID ...
UK Insurer Uses Smart Cards To Encourage Healthy Habits
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... insurance program in the United Kingdom that gives consumers smart cards that record ... Each consumer receives a smart card that must be inserted into an exercise ...
Dubai Airport expedites travel with contactless cards
Contactless News - Aldie,VA,USA
Dubai International Airport is using a card management and issuing solution with contactless smart cards to expedite passage at electronic gates. ...
Smart cards go gaming
New Electronics - Dartford,Kent,UK
... When the game is over, players rescan their cards and their new winning powers ... RFID protocol, and is the first time that this type of smart card technology has ...
Is the proposed US RFID 'passport card' bad news?
UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
... State Department are proposing for 'passport cards' may do ... of these objectives is the contactless smart card technology that is used in the e-passport. ...
Electronic payment has huge market potential
China Economic Net - Beijing,China
... and life style have been changed, various emerging electronic payment channels and tools like the Internet, cell phone and the smart card will experience a ...
Bahrain set to issue electronic ID cards
United Press International - USA
... smart cards, necessary for access to government services, have a five-year validity. Applicants must present their old government-issued identity card to ...
Visa To Align Asian Contactless Programs With Global Standard
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... technology at Visa International, tells Card Technology. ... banks have issued 800,000 cards that work ... to EMV, the international standard for payment smart cards. ...
Gemalto Introduces World's First Banking Card Meeting the Visa ...
news aktuell (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
... now available, the Gemalto card enables issuers ... develop new globally interoperable contactless payment programs with ... personal objects like smart cards, SIMs, e ...
Smart Card Shipments To Grow By 20% in 2007
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... In 2006, most of the growth in banking smart card shipments came from increased sales of EMV cards to Latin America, Italy, Turkey and Indonesia, says Eurosmart ...
Sesames Awarded In Paris
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... Protocol, version 6, or IPv6, into a smart card. It also won in the IT Security category for its SIM Strong product that connects SIM cards with Internet ...
Smart Payment Association To Promote Contactless Specs For ...
Card Technology - Chicago,IL,USA
... Smart card vendors, which chanted the multiapplication mantra for years for contact EMV cards along with the card organizations, now appear to be looking to ...
Giesecke & Devrient opens smart card subsidiary in France
Finextra (press release) - UK
... every citizen of France carries one smart card in his or ... for high-end products and innovative card solutions, such as contactless payment cards or large ...
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