Posted on 1st Oct 2012 by Gemalto
The move towards a trusted Internet identity ecosystem is getting closer: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $9 million to five pilot programs for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) initiative. According to NIST, the pilots will include new solutions, models, and/or frameworks for healthcare, online media, retail, [...]
Posted on 17th Jul 2012 by John Ahlberg
Yes indeed, 18 years have passed since eCommerce was ‘born’. Well, that’s according to some rather loose interpretation based on Wikipedia data. If you take the birth of eCommerce to coincide with Pizza Hut offering ordering on its web page then we can agree that 1994 was indeed the year shopping across multiple channels commenced. [...]
Posted on 5th Apr 2012 by Ernesto Haikewitsch
So, over the course of our series of posts on Digital Brazil so far we have seen the digital potential of this rapidly-expanding nation. From its fast-growing economy, the shift of more than 30 million citizens into the ‘middle-class’ income bracket and the increasing digital literacy among all Brazilians, from working classes to the rich, Brazil’s [...]
Posted on 2nd Apr 2012 by Ernesto Haikewitsch
In the second of our series on Brazil’s digital revolution, I take a look at the growth of digital financial services that are having a real impact on peoples’ lives and businesses in one of the world’s most vibrant nations. Brazil’s vast population consists of a young majority, including around a quarter under fifteen years [...]
Posted on 26th Mar 2012 by Ernesto Haikewitsch
Earlier this year, Brazil officially overtook the UK as the world’s sixth-largest economy, with its GDP boasting an estimated annual growth rate of 7.5%. Slowly but surely, a country that for many years was well-known for the poor living conditions of millions of its citizens, is showing signs of becoming an economic superpower. In the [...]
Posted on 10th Feb 2012 by Gemalto
This week in Salt Lake City, the Smart Card Alliance Payment Summit saw record attendance from industry players over previous years. As a past attendee, it wasn’t surprising that attendance would be up this year – conversations around EMV in the U.S. and mobile payment are heating up. Issuers including MasterCard and Visa have both [...]
Posted on 1st Feb 2012 by Philippe Benitez
This week the payments industry got news that many of us were hoping for: MasterCard is joining Visa in support of EMV in the United States. In a statement issued this week, MasterCard introduced its US roadmap from magnetic stripe cards to EMV chip cards, and beyond to mobile payments and much more. While the [...]
