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Ingenico And Oti Form Partnership In Secure Contactless Payment And Identification

Initial Deployments Will Support US Payment Market Ingenico is integrating OTI’s contactless technology with the eN-Touch 1000, as well as the i6770 and i6550 customer-activated payment terminals. Additionally, Ingenico will interface and offer OTI’s flagship Saturn 5000 contactless reader as a “plug ‘n play” option for merchants currently equipped with Ingenico terminals. Initial deployment will…
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Gemplus addresses rapidly growing contactless market with its new range of proximity readers

GemProx readers to engage contactless security markets in identity, payment, mass-transit and physical access control Luxembourg, 9 June 2005–Gemplus International S.A. Euronext: LU0121706294–GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world’s leading provider of smart card solutions, is reinforcing its contactless access control offer by introducing “GemProx”, a contactless reader product range dedicated to rapidly growing markets such…
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Chase Picks Colorado To Roll Out Next Generation Payment Product

Chase Cards With blink Redefine Payment Experience for Colorado Residents by Providing Increased Speed, Added Convenience, Enhanced Rewards Platform; Area Merchants Enjoy Faster Transactions, Increased Customer Loyalty DENVER, CO, June 8, 2005–Chase Bank U.S.A., a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. [NYSE: JPM], announced today the Colorado rollout of its new Chase “contactless” credit card…
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American Express Begins Issuing Contactless Payment Cards Nationwide and Signs 7-Eleven, Inc. as Newest Expresspay Merchant

NEW YORK, June 06, 2005–American Express announced today that it has begun issuing Blue from American Express® with the ExpressPay feature in all 50 states. ExpressPay, a contactless chip for easy, convenient and secure payment, will be embedded in all new Blue from American Express® consumer and small business credit cards moving forward. In addition,…
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7-Eleven To Accept MasterCard Paypass–‘Tap And Go’ Payment Option Is Newest Way To Pay

MasterCard PayPass Delivers Even More Convenience to the Convenience-Store Customer Dallas TX, June 06, 2005–As part of its ongoing commitment to offer customers a convenient and secure payment card transaction, 7-Eleven, Inc. (NYSE: SE) announced today that it will accept MasterCard® PayPass™, a new contactless payment option using radio frequency (RF) technology. 7-Eleven expects to…
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Gemplus selected for electronic Visa pilot in France

Gemplus supplies contactless smart card technology for French Government’s border control initiative Luxembourg, 24 May, 2005–Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294–GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world’s leading provider of smart card solutions, today announces that it has been selected to supply contactless smart card technology for the “Biodev” project, an initiative spearheaded by an ad-hoc grouping…
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Sheetz Customers Can Now Experience the Latest in Payment Innovation As Sheetz Goes Live with Contactless Payments in All 309 Stores

Customers Among the First to Benefit from Speed and Convenience of Contactless Payment Technology with the New Sheetz MasterCard from Chase; First Retailer to Launch Cobranded Contactless Credit Card Altoona, PA, May 19, 2005–Sheetz, Inc., today announces that technology allowing customers to use a contactless payment option is now “live” in all 309 Sheetz stores….
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Giesecke & Devrient Strengthens Presence on Russian Market–Joint venture founded with Russian technology group KNC

Munich/Moscow, May 18, 2005–International technology group Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is expanding its smart card activities in Russia as well as neighboring countries that belong to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by entering into a joint venture with Russia’s Concern Nauchny Center (KNC). Representatives from both companies gathered today in Moscow to sign the…