Posted on 10 February 2012 by
This week in Salt Lake City, the Smart Card Alliance Payment Summit saw record attendance from industry players over previous years. As a past attendee, it wasn’t surprising that attendance would be up this year – conversations around EMV in the U.S. and mobile payment are heating up. Issuers including MasterCard and Visa have both […]
Posted on 09 February 2012 by
According to recent reports from Visa, EMV deployment in the US is accelerating. An estimated one million Visa-branded EMV chip-enabled cards had been issued by the end of 2011. In addition to this, Mastercard has finally agreed to join Visa in supporting the technology in the US. EMV, which regular readers by now know stands […]
Posted on 11 January 2012 by
It’s always pleasing to see creative, informed content get the recognition it deserves, particularly in the world of social media so I decided to look at some of the security, telecoms and emerging tech blogs that we’ve been following here at Gemalto.
Posted on 10 October 2011 by
As Google unveiled the Google Wallet NFC a few days ago, the search engine giant has thrown open the floor for mobile payment methods to all banking and secure transaction partners.
Posted on 17 August 2011 by
Are we getting closer to the day where we can pay for goods and services with our mobile phones? All signs seem to be pointing to ‘yes’ with major telecom operators, card issuers and handset manufacturers on board with the idea. Here are but a few of them. Isis, a mobile commerce joint venture between […]
Posted on 08 July 2011 by
You may have seen our announcement yesterday with UniCredit in Slovakia where we were selected to supply stickers that contain a contactless payment function. These little beauties based on MasterCard PayPass technology can be stuck to any object turning it into a banking card. This means you no longer have to leave the house with […]
