Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

ACT Canada's Cardware 07 Financial

Monday, June 25, 2007

Dates: June 25, 2007
Venue: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
URL: http://www.actcda.com
Contact: Andrea McMullen, andrea(AT)actcda.com, 905-426-6360 ext. 24

Description: EMV - Beyond Compliance with Retail & Financial Services Workshops. [end] 

ACT Canada awarded its 2011 Gold International Innovation Award in the Payment category to YESpay to recognize its EMBOSS card payment service.

EMBOSS is an integrated and managed EMV chip and PIN card payment service that reduces PCI-DSS certification and EMV chip and PIN accreditation of merchants and POS vendors’ multi-channel retail, e-commerce and MOTO payment systems.

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Mobile payment solution provider I Love Velvet announced that it has reached the second level of EMV certification (EMV2) which authorizes PIN and integrated chip payments from debit, credit and smart cards around the world.

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Visa and Imperial Parking Canada Corp. (Impark) are teaming up to offer Visa payWave contactless payments to 72 of its attended parking facilities across Canada.

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Heartland Payment Systems Campus Solutions division, in partnership with Bridgeway Solutions, an identification and security solutions provider, has been chosen as one of South Carolina’s preferred system providers for electronic disbursement of financial aid refunds and payments to students.

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As part of the U.S. Department of State’s initiative to simplify and streamline customer service interactions and processes, the Office of Passport Services has started a 90-day pilot program for online passport card applications.

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In Europe, the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) and EPASOrg has developed a new global standard to help accommodate changes in new payment technologies, according to SupermarketNews.com

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