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Dear Members and Friends of the Alliance, In preparation for the upcoming NFC Solutions Summit Conference on May 15-16, I have been talking with a lot of industry insiders who have very diverse views about the future of NFC. These conversations ranged from declarations that 2013 is going to be the “year of NFC” to…

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Dear Members and Friends of the Alliance, The migration to EMV in the U.S. is underway. It’s no longer a pipe dream, a debate or wishful thinking. With deadlines in place, all stakeholders are very busy working on their part of the transition. The EMV Migration Forum has become the go-to organization for information, knowledge,…

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Dear Members and Friends of the Alliance, This year has already kicked off with a busy agenda of activities. Coming off a very successful 2013 Payments Conference, we are now hard at work on the NFC Solutions Summit, as well as planning webinars and getting resources ready for publication. As details and logistics fill my…

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Dear Members and Friends of the Alliance, This month we are pleased to unveil a slimmed-down version of Smart Card Talk, our monthly e-newsletter that you receive as a subscriber to this publication. This new, streamlined format will allow you to easily locate, and enjoy, the most widely-read portions of the newsletter, including our Monthly…

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New! 2012 Smart Card E-Yearbook I’m delighted to announce the publication of the second E-Yearbook from the Smart Card Alliance. This year’s issue features content on the advancements across many markets in the smart card industry, and recaps the productive year of our members who contributed their resources and expertise to the Smart Card Alliance….

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A Controlled Approach There’s a lot going on in the smart card industry. I know it seems as if my letters either begin or end with that statement, but at this juncture, we are particularly busy, and privileged to be so. The Smart Card Alliance is putting the final touches on our Annual Government Conference…

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Both Sides of the Story Lately, I get the feeling that the debate over the future of card payments and mobile payments is turning increasing partisan – just like politics. I have sat in on a number of industry forums recently where the discussion has taken a caustic tone when debating the right path for…

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Purpose, With a Sense of Urgency It was just a few months after September 11, 2001 that I began my career with the Smart Card Alliance. At that time we were headquartered in New York City, less than a half mile from the World Trade Center. Traveling into work each day, surrounded by debris and…

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Industry Collaborates on EMV Migration One of the reasons the Smart Card Alliance is successful in our endeavors, especially in our ability to effect change, is due to our collaborative nature. It is from this framework that we have created the EMV Migration Forum, a separate organization that will focus on the entire ecosystem involved…

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Medicare Needs Strong Authentication to Protect Privacy and Reduce Fraud Smart cards are a solution that addresses both fraud problems and privacy issues that currently drain the government-run Medicare system of $60 billion per year. Implementing a secure chip smart card would authenticate healthcare providers and beneficiaries, securely protect patient identification and save billions in…