SIM growth fuelled by healthy fundamentals
Thursday 24 April 2008 at 10:34
While SIMposium is happening this week in Berlin, the smart card industry is reinforcing its pivotal role in mobile communication.
Who owns the transit cash float?
Thursday 17 April 2008 at 10:37
A major transit operator like New York NYCTA recently showed managing the cash associated with its transport services was no longer part of its core business. Now, MasterCard and Citibank contactless payment cards are being accepted directly as fare media. (cf. Smart Insights #07-43).
Amex drops its key fobs
Thursday 10 April 2008 at 01:27
American Express announced this week it was discontinuing its Express Pay contactless payments key fob following poor customer take-up of the device. Some could be alarmed this is a bad signal for the contactless payments industry.
Too easy payments?
Thursday 3 April 2008 at 09:17
The whole smart card and mobile communication industries have been struggling for years to make payments easier for end users.