Coalition-Based Rewards Programs with Open and Real-Time Redemption Will Transform Rapidly Growing Consumer Loyalty Industry SHCDirect (SHCD) and Smart Chip Technologies (OTC: SCTN) are pleased to announce an agreement to co-market, link, and bundle each other’s loyalty systems in order to offer a new business model for coalition style, smart card-based consumer rewards programs featuring […]

In 1985 Joe Capers was tinkering with vending machines, coin mechanisms, and card readers in his garage in Brentwood, Tennessee. He figured out how to make a card reader speak to a vending machine and immediately saw a need for his product. He found a client in the North Georgia Food Service Company, a group […]

Trintech Group Plc (Nasdaq: TTPA; Neuer Markt: TTP), a leading provider of secure payment solutions, today announced that An Post, Ireland’s Post Office Authority, has deployed Trintech’s secure, chip-enabled PINPad infrastructure nationally. The new technology enables An Post to offer AIB Bank customers the facility to carry out banking transactions throughout its network of over […]

    NANTES, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 7, 2002–Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML) announced today the expansion of its C51 microcontroller family dedicated to advanced smart card readers. Designed in partnership with key-players in the smart card reader market, Atmel’s new reader ICs address any application using a serial, USB or PCMCIA smart card reader.      The new AT8xC5122 and AT83C5123 […]

ATLANTA, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ – Today at BAI’s Retail Delivery Conference & Expo 2002, Vital Processing Services(R) (Vital(R)), a recognized leader in technology-based commerce enabling services, announced it has teamed up with JCB International Credit Card Co., Ltd., JCB’s U.S. subsidiary, to help promote smart card usage in the United States. Vital also announced that […]

Hires Influential Smart Card Industry Leader Julie Krueger LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ — JCB, the fourth largest global payment brand, has set its sites on broadening smart credit card acceptance in the U.S. To spearhead this initiative, JCB USA has hired Julie Krueger, former executive director of the Smart Card Alliance and respected industry […]

Strategic Partnership Promotes Smart Card-Based e-Payments BRAINTREE, Mass. and SEVRES, France, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Caradas, Inc., a leading provider of smart card authentication technology, and XIRING, a global provider of smart card based-security solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to further increase consumer and merchant confidence in e-commerce payments through the use of smart […]

PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ – Attendees were upbeatand justifiably optimistic about the future at the recently concluded Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference, where the Alliance announced that smart card module shipments to the U.S. and Canada had doubled in the first half of 2002 to 31.2 million, and total more than 120 million […]

MasterCard M/Chip, Version 4, Designed to Address Range of IndustryNeeds Purchase, NY, and Waterloo, Belgium, October 3, 2002 Responding to feedback received from its member financial institutions around the world, MasterCard today announced the release of MasterCard M/Chip, version 4 (M/Chip 4), a highly flexible smart card application for credit and debit cards. The new […]

PHOENIX, September 24, 2002 – National Processing Company (NPCR), aleading provider of merchant credit card processing and a wholly owned subsidiary of National Processing, Inc. (NYSE: NAP), has signed a multi-year agreement with Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC), a leading global provider of electronic payment solutions, to provide Hypercom’s fast, secure and easy-to-use ICE? 5500Plus and […]