Posted on 28th Mar 2013 by Philippe Benitez
As the U.S. continues its implementation of EMV chip cards, it’s lucky to be able to look to other countries that have adopted the technology for best practices, lessons learned, and future benefits. As a Gemalto employee based in the U.S., I’ve been eagerly watching to see how our neighbor to the north, Canada, is [...]
Posted on 16th Jan 2013 by Jack Jania
Card fraud costs people in the European Union around €1.5 billion a year, according to European law enforcement agency, Europol. The criminal market is dominated by “well-structured and globally active organized crime groups (OCGs)” perpetrating illegal transactions. This may understandably worry some of our European-based readers, yet the report also finds that “the majority of illegal [...]
Posted on 7th Jan 2013 by Gemalto
Happy New Year! As you wrapped up your holiday shopping and bought all the new gadgets for your loved ones last month, did you wonder at all what new and exciting technologies are in store for 2013? I always do, but I also know that with a new year comes International CES, the world’s largest [...]
Posted on 27th Jul 2012 by Gemalto
Athletes at the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games can leave their ATM cards at home for 2012. For this one, we’re going cashless. As you probably know, the Games are always big revenue-generating events, and with that, London is poised to benefit. According to the MasterCard Global City Index, “London is the hottest city [...]
Posted on 25th Jul 2012 by Tim Cawsey
Last month I was honoured to be invited along to speak at an event in London to talk about the importance of social media to today’s businesses, particularly those in the financial sector where, as a phenomenon, it is often overlooked. We also heard interesting presentations from Tracy Glynn, John Hartley, Christophe Langlois, Thomas Messett, [...]
Posted on 9th Jul 2012 by Jack Jania
It didn’t take a crystal ball to see the evitable: with the rest of the world migrated to more secure EMV chip technology, fraudsters would move on and seek out the weakest link to carry out banking crimes. This weak link would be, of course, the United States – the country still using antiquated magnetic [...]
Posted on 12th Jun 2012 by Paul Beverly
The internet will only get bigger and better. Or, that’s an impression you get from reading some of the reports compiled by the likes of Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and any of the organizations looking at the impact of the Internet on our future economies. These reports are looking at the future of our economies, [...]
Posted on 17th Feb 2012 by Philippe Benitez
Last week, the Gemalto team headed out to Salt Lake City, Utah for the 2012 Smart Card Alliance Payments Summit. The three-day event lived up to its name, covering all things payments such as EMV chip card payments, mobile payments and wallets, NFC, and open transit payments. The hot topic of the event? EMV’s impending [...]
Posted on 25th Oct 2011 by John Ahlberg
Håkan Nordfjell and Peter Gullberg explain the core benefits of Gemalto’s Ezio Suite — a comprehensive, versatile and easy-to-implement eBanking security solution. They explain the benefits that such a scalable, portable and flexible solution offers to the banking industry, including tools for viewing real-time eGovernance, tax returns, and insurance payments. Have a watch!
Posted on 13th Jul 2011 by Jack Jania
UNFCU and Gemalto celebrate the first year since the launch of United Nations Federal Credit Union’s (UNFCU) globally compliant chip and PIN credit cards with newly released results of the financial cooperative’s effectiveness study.
