--- title: "Contactless Payments News Archives - Page 12 of 41 - Secure Technology Alliance" language: "en-US" canonical_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/category/contactless-payments-news/page/12/" source_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/category/contactless-payments-news/page/12/" content_type: "text/markdown" --- [Home](https://www.securetechalliance.org/)Contactless Payments News # Category: Contactless Payments News ### Munich, Germany and Dulles, VA, USA, November 10, 2010–Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) announces that shipments of its Convego Air® contactless payment cards in the U.S. have now surpassed the 50 million unit mark. Since the introduction of its contactless payment cards in 2006 and its subsequent growth, G&D has captured the leadership position in the… ### EMV Pre-Certified Firmware Creates Low-Cost Turnkey Solutions that Speed Development of Contact and Contactless Designs Aix-En-Provence, France, November 22, 2010–INSIDE Contactless, a leader in semiconductor solutions for secure transactions and digital identity, today announced it has integrated new, proprietary advanced firmware into its AT90SCR series of smart card reader microcontrollers to enable device manufacturers to… ### Munich, Germany and Dulles, VA, USA, November 10, 2010–Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) announces that shipments of its Convego® Air contactless payment cards in the U.S. have now surpassed the 50 million unit mark. Since the introduction of its contactless payment cards in 2006 and its subsequent growth, G&D has captured the leadership position in the… ### Austin, TX, Sept 30, 2010–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, announced the expansion of its state-of-the-art facility in Burlington, Ontario, to serve its growing EMV customer base in Canada. The investment will double the capacity and accommodate the need for delivering additional cardholder services. The site is the first in Canada to personalize dual-interface… ### September 28, 2010–The Chicago Transit Authority is preparing the next phase of its move toward an open fare payment system that could introduce the use of contactless credit cards, debit cards and prepaid cards to ride the system. CTA is issuing a Request for Proposal today on the design, implementation, and operation of an open… ### MicroPass-Based Implementation Receives Type Approval from STAR Network Aix-En-Provence, France, September 28, 2010–INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced that its award-winning MicroPass® payment processor is the first implementation to receive type approval from the STAR® Network for its STAR CertiFlash™ contactless PIN debit security application. INSIDE’s MicroPass-based implementation… ### Joins Voltage SecureData Open License Program Santa Clara, Calif., August 10, 2010–Silicon Valley-based ViVOtech, the leader in Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payments, loyalty and marketing applications and contactless NFC readers, and Voltage Security™, the global leader in end-to-end data protection, today announced that ViVOtech is implementing a Voltage-powered end-to-end encryption point-of-sales (POS) solution in… ### Providing an Innovative, Customizable and Convenient Means of Payment to Meet the Growing Demand of Consumers in the U.S. and Abroad Chantilly, VA August 3, 2010–Oberthur Technologies, the world’s leading provider of contactless payment technologies, has seen an increase in the demand for its contactless sticker product, FlyBuy Sticker, with banks and issuers throughout the… ### Magna Carta, largest Dutch cashless vendor, is a new licence partner of LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, manufacturer of contactless smart card technology for personal identification and, thus, supports the contactless LEGIC smart card technology. With innovative smart card applications, Magna Carta is a world class supplier of contactless solutions for the education, healthcare, leisure, government and… ### micropass® 6000 Platform Serving as “Reference Chipset” for Interoperability Testing Aix-En-Provence, France, June 17, 2010–As the Canadian market moves toward global EMV™ standards, INSIDE Contactless achieved a major milestone today with the delivery of the first dual-interface debit card solution compliant with the Interac® Flash™ specification. Scotiabank debit cards based on the INSIDE solution and… [ ** ](#)