Federal prosecutors expect more charges to be placed against the three Charlottesville, Virginia residents charged with selling fake IDs to thousands of college students across the country, according to the Washington Post.

According to reports, authorities seized more than $2 million in a May 6 raid including $1.3 million in a safe and funds in four bank accounts. From a home located at 920 Rugby Road, the feds also uncovered $800,000 in additional money and confiscated an arsenal of 18 handguns, shotguns and assault rifles. 

Natural Security is piloting its biometric and mobile payments system at San Jose State University. The system uses biometrics and mobile devices for secure payment transactions. Brian Mitchler, the services systems manager for Spartan Shops at the school, spoke with Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about the pilot and how it will work.

Listen to the podcast here.  

Multicard, a supplier of identity management and a business unit of Identive Group, announced an integrated smart card solution for student ID verification and administration based on the latest NFC and MIFARE DESFire EV1 contactless card technologies.

The new student ID solution enables schools, universities and other educational institutions to verify student identities, track and report attendance, manage access to campus services and validate students’ exam papers; among other things. 

Big plans are in store for the Purdue University Identification (PUID) Card, the official university identification that serves as a student and employee key to gain access to various facilities and services on campus.

Earlier this week, the Purdue Card Services Office commenced Phase One to upgrade the Purdue ID Card system software. Administrators and software technicians affirmed the upgrade was a necessity, as the old software is now 20-years-old and no longer supported by the vendor. 

USA Technologies (USAT) has kicked off its “Fifth Vend Free” mobile payment and loyalty program for the United States vending industry, this week at the NAMA OneShow in Las Vegas.

The mobile payment and loyalty program will integrate USA Technologies’ installed base of over 100,000 NFC-enabled cashless payment terminals with Isis’ SmartTap mobile commerce technology, for rewards acceptance and redemption.

Under the promotion, announced by USAT and Isis, customers would be eligible to receive free products from vending operators based upon loyalty rewards earned by using the Isis Mobile Wallet to pay for a purchase at a qualifying terminal. 

Annual CR80News Campus Card Banking survey results flat, Prepaid leaps as fees fall

The traditional model of banks partnering with colleges and universities to offer an all-in-one campus ID and bank card may be shifting.

A 2012 report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group raised concerns about some of these program’s practices and the fees charged to students. Many of these concerns were unfounded or misplaced and most of the programs provide good value for students and institutions, but still the report brought new pressures. In the months that followed, members of Congress met with vendors and financial institutions offering the products while the U.S. Department of Education began crafting regulations to govern these programs. 

St. Thomas University, located in Miami Gardens, Fla., has overhauled its entire print operations with a new complete desktop to print shop solution leveraging services, software and hardware from Konica Minolta.

The university replaced its aging student printers with print management software from Pharos and Bizhub multifunctional products (MFPs) that enable printing, copying, faxing and scanning from one system. It also added Konica Minolta digital production print systems to its in-plant print copy center and leveraged Konica Minolta Optimized Print Services to manage its entire print fleet.