Thames Card Technology Ltd (TCT), a manufacturers of secure and non-secure plastic cards, has won a tender to be the supplier for the production, personalisation and distribution of one million EMV chip payment cards for Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB Ltd.). Thames will also offer its portfolio of consultancy services to support GCB Ltd. in its
hyperWALLET Systems Inc., a payments provider, has announced that Karrot has launched hyperWALLET’s branded prepaid card services to provide a unified payment solution for its loyalty and reward payment solutions. Karrot, a Chicago based company, provides online loyalty and reward program solutions for a wide variety of companies. With a deep understanding about the impact
Fiserv, Inc., a provider of financial services technology solutions, has announced an agreement to make Visa’s common debit EMV solution available for the Accel debit network. Under the agreement, Fiserv will adopt Visa’s common debit solution offering issuers, acquirers and merchants a simple, streamlined approach for debit EMV adoption. The agreement will help enable the
The EMV Payment Tokenisation Specification – Technical Framework v1.0 has been published by EMVCo. The technical document – which will be of interest to all industry participants including merchants, acquirers, card issuers and new payment entrants engaged in the mobile and digital secure payment ecosystem – is designed to allow market implementers to develop interoperable
Fiserv, Inc. and MasterCard have announced an agreement to make MasterCard’s U.S. common debit EMV solution available for the Accel debit network. Under this agreement, MasterCard issuers receive flexibility to select and implement network relationships, while merchants and acquirers will continue to route transactions as they prefer, without introducing multiple applications and complicated technology upgrades.
Datacard Group, a provider of secure ID and card personalization solutions, has announced its continued commitment to educate and consult financial institutions on EMV migration. The company, along with its partners – Visco (Cambodia) Joint Stock Co., Ltd in Cambodia and Omega Computer Corporation in Philippines – will conduct two half-day EMV seminars. Ideal for
CRDB Bank in Tanzania has launched a Visa/MasterCard – enabled prepaid card for the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) to reduce cash transactions at the referral hospital in Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region. The Visa/MasterCard dubbed Tembocard KCMC card launched in Moshi are aimed at streamlining payments made by patients to further optimize revenues for the hospital.
MasterCard and Visa have announced the formation of a new cross-industry group focused on enhancing payment system security to keep pace with the expectations of consumers, retailers and financial institutions. The group will initially focus on the adoption of EMV chip technology in the United States, in addition to addressing other security-related topics, including tokenization,
South Africans are abandoning cash for card payments, cutting banking costs by reducing the need to transport money, according to First National Bank (FNB). The bank reported in December card payments were ZAR3 billion (US$289 million) higher than cash withdrawals, though this had fallen again by January. “The gap between purchases made with banknotes compared
MasterCard has announced its expansion into seven new markets across Central and West Africa, increasing its acceptance footprint across the continent and securing a number of strategic agreements. The addition of Chad, Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda and The Gambia to the MasterCard network extends the company’s presence to 48 of the
