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Visa Announces Plans to Accelerate Chip Migration and Adoption of Mobile Payments

Visa dynamic authentication roadmap will reduce fraud and enhance international acceptance San Francisco, August 9, 2011–Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) today announced plans to accelerate the migration to EMV contact and contactless chip technology in the United States. The adoption of dual-interface chip technology will help prepare the U.S. payment infrastructure for the arrival of NFC-based…
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Mobile Payments: A Mash-up of Technologies and Business Interests For Issuers, Mobile Operators, and Merchants Rarely has there ever been a time in history when someone could sit in a room of less than 30 people and watch an entire multi-billion dollar industry ecosystem unfold and reveal its inner secrets and uncertainties in an open…
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Gemalto Releases the 2011 eBanking Security Guide for U.S. Banks Addressing New FFIEC Regulations

Austin, TX, July 13, 2011–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced the launch of its 2011 eBanking Security Guide. This ten-step guidebook for securing online banking offers North American banks a reliable and strategic solution to meet Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s (FFIEC) guidance. Gemalto’s eBanking Security Guide is free of charge and…
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United Nations Federal Credit Union and Gemalto Publicize Increased Member Spend with Chip and PIN Payment Card

Austin, TX, July 12, 2011–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, marked the first year since the launch of United Nations Federal Credit Union’s (UNFCU) globally compliant chip and PIN credit cards with newly released results of the financial cooperative’s effectiveness study. UNFCU’s analyses demonstrated significant increases in member demand, satisfaction and spend achieved during…
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Consult Hyperion joins the Smart Card Alliance

Growing demand in the U.S for consultancy’s specialist expertise supporting large scale smartcard implementations fuel membership July 7, 2011–Consult Hyperion, the independent consultancy which specialises in the field of secure transactions in contactless smart cards and mobile devices, today announced that it has joined the Smart Card Alliance, a not-for-profit group comprised of over 180…
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UniCredit Uses Gemalto’s Contactless Sticker for Mobile Payment in Slovakia

Amsterdam, July 7, 2011–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces the selection by UniCredit Slovakia, to provide Optelio contactless stickers for its first commercial mobile payment deployment. The bank, part of the major financial institution UniCredit Group, is the first to market with a contactless debit payment service in Slovakia. UniCredit…
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Qatar Selects Gemalto Solution to Secure eGovernment Services

Coesys eGov2.0: boosting usage of everyday services with the security guaranteed by eID cards Amsterdam, July 5, 2011–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces it has been selected by Qatar’s Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR), to deploy the Coesys eGov 2.0 solution for eGovernment in Qatar. Using Qatari…
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Oberthur Technologies receives International Innovation awards from Act Canada for the third year in a row

Nanterre, June 29, 2011–Oberthur Technologies, a world leader in the field of secure technologies, received two International Innovation Awards from ACT Canada, an internationally recognized non-profit association and trusted knowledge resource in the payment and secure identity markets. The awards were presented at Cardware 2011, ACT Canada’s annual conference, held June 14-15 in Niagara Falls….
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Competing Strategies for NFC Power Position Start To Come Into Focus The competing strategies for the power position in the world of NFC and the determined efforts to achieve an early advantage in the lucrative mobile payments market have started to come into focus. Last month’s flashy New York announcement by Google about the Google…