EMV can help stymie fraud in stores but online it’s a different story. The feds wants standards for multi-factor authentication for e-commerce purchases using existing web analytics and contextual risk calculation.

Nigeria wants to help its citizens get access to banking services with its electronic identification card. The contact smart card includes and EMV application and is secure with PKI and biometrics.

More electronic passport deployments, the move to EMV and the ever-popular SIM are still responsible for the vast majority of smart cards shipped across the globe.

Gemalto is supplying China Telecom with its UpTeq Multi-Tenant NFC SIM to support their commercial rollout of near field communication services. China Telecom subscribers will be able to choose from multiple types of NFC-enabled mobile phones to make payments for transportation, dining, shopping and petrol throughout the country. Airport check-ins, personal authentication services and employee ID services will be introduced in the future

The province of British Columbia is issuing its BC Care Card to provide secure online access to a host of government services, health care systems and more. The contactless card also serves as the driver license. The system is taking an innovative approach to authentication using an EMV app on the card — not for payment but rather for secure access to services.

Just more than 10-years ago Visa USA made a hard push for smart cards in the U.S. A handful of banks were issuing the cards and big-box retailer Target was on board to roll out the card, new point-of-sale systems and a loyalty program that would take advantage of the chip technology. Around the same […]

HID buys IdenTrust  HID Global announced the acquisition of IdenTrust Inc., a provider of solutions for interoperable digital identities that can authenticate, encrypt, and create electronic signatures for every type of transaction or activity where proof of identity is essential. The acquisition expands HID Global’s ability to provide secure identity solutions to governments, corporations and […]

There was a time in the not-so-distant past where “one card that would rule them all,” was a hotly discussed topic. Credit, debit, transit, multiple loyalty schemes and possibly even identification would all be placed on to one smart card for use everywhere and anywhere. Conferences dedicated sessions to the discussion of multi-purpose smart cards, […]

Javelin Strategy & Research has revealed its support for biometrics in finance, stating that biometric authentication is likely to see widespread use by financial institutions and online merchants by the year 2015. To accompany its statement, Al Pascual, a senior analyst for the company, posits that voice recognition will be the first biometric modality to […]

A report from payment systems provider ACI Worldwide has revealed trends related to EMV, mobile payments, banking, fraud and innovation. Conducted in June at the 2013 ACI Americas Exchange conference in Boston, the ACI survey found that banking and payments stakeholders believe that EMV will act as a driving force in the adoption of mobile […]