Global shipments of smart payment cards by SPA members reach 2.3bn in 2017

The Smart Payment Association (SPA), the trade body of the smart payments industry, has revealed top level findings from its 2017 annual review of the smart payments market.

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FIME and Barnes’ joint personalisation validation tool achieved latest Mastercard qualification

FIME and Barnes International announce that their jointly-developed personalisation validation tool (PVT) is qualified against the latest Mastercard PVT Tool Release 2018 Requirements v11.3 March 2018, (“Mastercard Requirements”).

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NuData Security says, 40% of all account access attempts are high-risk

NuData Security, a Mastercard company, and a provider in the field of passive biometrics, has identified some concerning trends in account creation and takeover.

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Areeba introduces Gemalto’s contactless biometric payment card to the Middle East

Gemalto, the provider in digital security, is supplying its Visa biometric contactless EMV bank card to areeba, a fast-growing financial technology company that provides payment solutions for banks, governments and merchants

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Consultancy, testing and certification company FIME opens Dubai office for smart payment and ticketing in Middle East & Africa

FIME has continued its global expansion with a new office, FIME Middle East FZ LLC, opening in Dubai’s Internet City, bringing their experts closer to customers in the financial services,

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Rambus teams with eftpos for Android Pay in Australia

Rambus Inc. announced that eftpos, the Australian domestic debit network, is using the Rambus Token Service Provider (TSP) technology to securely digitise payment cards to support Android Pay. The proven and

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TransNational Payments announces enhancements in mobile EMV payment solution

TransNational Payments recently announced enhancements in their mobile EMV payment solution. TransNational Payments’ mobile point-of-sale solution enables merchants to quickly and securely accept EMV chip card payments from any smartphone

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Fight against cybercrime shows wins and losses in 2017 Trustwave global security report

Trustwave has released the 2017 Trustwave Global Security Report which reveals the top cybercrime, data breach and security threat trends from 2016.

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Samsung pay launches in Puerto Rico

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced that it is bringing Samsung Pay—the most widely accepted mobile payment system—to Puerto Rico. Starting today, Samsung Pay will support eligible credit cards from Banco

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FIME supports development & roll-out of first Android payment terminal

FIME announced its successful collaboration with AEVI, a subsidiary of Wincor Nixdorf, to support the development and roll-out of the world’s first payment terminal product based on the Android operating system

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