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Smart Card News

Published: 25th May

Government and Enterprise Adoption Driving Growth in Pre-paid Card Market Between 2013 and 2018: A combination of open and closed loop pre-paid cards in both the government and enterprise sectors will result in cumulative shipments totalling 3.6 billion bet.....Read more
Infineon Ships Security Chips to Taiwan's Electronic Passport Program: Infineon Technologies AG is supplying security chips to Taiwan's electronic passport program. Infineon is the only supplier and has started shipping security ch.....Read more
Visa Inc. Names Ryan McInerney President: Visa Inc. announces the appointment of Ryan McInerney as President of Visa Inc. In this role, Mr McInerney will be responsible for Visa's global client organisa.....Read more
Logic Group Achieves World's First Accreditation for PCI Point to Point Encryption Application: The Logic Group, UK's leading Payment Service Provider, announced that its Point to Point Encryption (P2PE) application, Solve DataShield, is the first in the w.....Read more
Contactless Payment Reaches Watershed Moment as Usage Grows 46% in Three Months: Visa Europe has confirmed that contactless usage has reached a critical point of adoption across Europe. Monthly transaction numbers across Europe reached more .....Read more

Smart Card Group: The Smart Card Group are a Smart Card and security company who provide in-depth consultancy, tailored Smart Card solutions and up-to-the minute industry analysis on a global scale. The Smart Card Group is made up of three companies - Smart Card News Ltd, Microexpert Ltd and Glenburn Technologies.
: Microexpert is a specialist Smart Card Consultancy which was originally founded in 1986 when Smart Card technology first started to be developed. During this time Microexpert has been involved in many national and international Smart Card projects. The company’s specialists were the architects of the Mondex electronic purse scheme and the inventors of the Multos multi-application Smart Card operating system.

As part of the Multos development we were the first to propose to Sun Microsystems the use of the Java virtual machine on a Smart Card. Microexpert has also been actively involved in the development of Smart Card management systems, one of which was developed by DataCard for American Express. Currently the Smart Card Group has developed a new security system for citizen cards using JCOP duel interface cards, which is currently being used by local authorities in the UK.
: Smart Card News is an independent International subscription newsletter launched in 1992. The newsletter is considered, by the industry, to be the definitive source for information on all aspects of the Smart Card industry. The highly successful daily on-line news service was launched in 1999 and is free to subscribers to the newsletter. Smart Card News covers all the latest industry news on the new technological advances, security, new products, product launches, contracts won and lost, personnel changes, with opinion pieces and technical tutorials from the industry's leading experts.
: Glenburn is a pioneering organisation working in the field of Smart Card technology and security solutions. Glenburn was one of the first companies in India to realise the global growth potential of Smart Card usage and non-traditional computer platforms.

Glenburns expertise lay within the fields of: Cryptography/ PKI, Smart Card Administration, Networked Access Control, Loyalty Schemes, Electronic Purses (EMV)