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New Jersey seeks to regulate on-campus credit card solicitations

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

A New Jersey state senator has introduced a bill that would regulate credit card solicitations on college campuses, including requiring issuers to register with the institution and, if allowed to solicit, to also offer educational programs on the responsible use of credit cards.

The bill would also prohibit credit card companies from using so-called promotional gimmicks to get students to sign up, from issuing a credit card to a student without a certificate that the student completed the credit education course and from purchasing or otherwise obtaining the names and addresses of enrolled students from the college. The bill has already been approved by one committee.

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HID Global has announced the successful completion of the world’s first university pilot of NFC smart phones carrying digital keys.

First announced in September, the pilot involved a select group of students and staff at Arizona State University using NFC-enabled smart phones equipped with HID’s Secure Identity Object (SIO) Technology. Participants could gain access to their residence halls and other secure access areas by tapping their handset against a reader embedded in the door and entering a PIN, rather than use their plastic campus card.

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Fox News Business has taken a look at university IDs that also double as prepaid cards. Fox dubs the prepaid aspect as “the latest twist on a long tradition of college campus ID cards serving a dual financial purpose.”

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Students at Park Hills, Mo.-based Mineral Area College will be receiving their financial aid refunds faster this year through a prepaid card issued by Central National Bank in Oklahoma.

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The OneCard from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, can now be used at three off-campus restaurants with more merchants set to join.

“It’s a project we’ve been working on for some time now and its finally coming to fruition,” said OneCard Coordinator Chris Bird.

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Florida students have more payment options thanks to wireless WaveRiders

A new laundry payment and management system at the University of Florida accepts the GatorOne campus ID card as well as credit and debit cards.

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University of California Riverside (UCR) is in the process of investigating an incident which may have lead to hackers gaining access to more than 5,000 individual credit/debit card numbers.

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