Telco SingTel-Optus this week launched in Australia a SIM card-based mobile-payments service as part of a partnership with Visa and Heritage Bank. The Sydney Morning Herald reports the project is a year overdue from its original launch date. Users can load funds into the mobile wallet account via a prepaid card issued by Heritage bank, […]

Starbucks has unveiled that it is handling almost 7 million mobile payments a week at its US coffee shops, online media outlet CMO reports. According to the source, this number of mobile payments accounts for 16% of all transactions at Starbucks’ stores. Moreover, the company adds that 90% of all mobile payments in 2013 in the US were made […]

Burger King Worldwide has reportedly inked a deal with PayPal, a subsidiary of eBay, for mobile payments. PayPal, a payment and money transfer company, is set to introduce a mobile payment service dubbed ‘Burger King app’ at the Burger King’s restaurant chain for iOS and Android users, which will be rolled out across the US […]

Starbucks has unveiled that it is handling almost 7 million mobile payments a week at its US coffee shops, online media outlet CMO reports. According to the source, this number of mobile payments accounts for 16% of all transactions at Starbucks’ stores. Moreover, the company adds that 90% of all mobile payments in 2013 in the US were made […]

NEW DATACARD® SD160™ CARD PRINTER OFFERS HIGH-QUALITY PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES TO HELP ORGANIZATIONS AFFORDABLY ISSUE PHOTO IDENTIFICATION CARDS AND BADGES Datacard Group today announced the addition of the Datacard® SD160TM card printer to their SD Series product suite which is designed to meet a wide range of issuance applications for corporate, healthcare, student, visitor and local […]

The protection of an organization’s assets starts with a secure, trusted identity, yet today’s organization is tasked with provisioning multiple identities with a variety of incompatible solutions. To simplify this process, Entrust Datacard announces a new component of Entrust® IdentityGuard Cloud Services that consolidates the issuance and management of multipurpose smartcards, USB tokens and mobile […]

Entrust Datacard delivers enterprise-grade security via mobile devices that serve as trusted identity credentials for secure physical, logical and cloud access. Via the next evolution of the Entrust Mobile Smart Credential, organizations may extend digital certificate or smartcard investments into the mobile environment to reduce costs, enable business efficiency and empower users. “Mobile devices are […]

US president Barack Obama has signed an executive order mandating the use of chip and PIN technology at executive departments and agencies for card payments. With more than a 100 million Americans falling to data breaches over the past year, thanks in part to massive attacks on the likes of Target, Home Depot and JPMorgan, […]

ANZ is to introduce a ‘Tap and PIN’ facility for cardless ATM transactions, a new mobile point-of-sale system for small traders and an NFC-based mobile wallet in 2015. Billed as an EMV-based ‘world first’ by the bank and vendor partner NCR, the Tap and PIN project is intended to protect customers from the risks of […]

MasterCard has partnered with Norwegian firm Zwipe to launch a contactless payment card with built-in fingerprint sensor. Cardholder fingerprint data is stored directly on the card, not in an external database. The biometric authentication replaces the PIN entry, thus enabling cardholders to make payments over and above the low-value limits typically applied to contactless transactions. […]