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Following a trend of our times, all card manufacturers, small and large, now include an offer for more eco-friendly banking cards. Even if each card weighs only about 5 grams, the plastic consumption of the payment card industry is estimated to 30,000 tons of PVC, equivalent to the weight of about 5,000 adult elephants or 150 Boeing 747s according to Thales, making it a real issue. The concept of eco-friendly cards has to take into account all steps in the card life, from pro

National identity used to be an exclusive right of nations, consequently, digital identity has been built at first as a national prerogative. Then the need to internationalize ID came up, with ICAO standards, for instance. In Europe, leaders on digital ID include Estonia, Germany, Belgium, and a few others. Now, in an always-increasing movement towards European integration, the EU is launching a European-level digital ID wallet project. As not all European governments are on

EMVCo just announced that at the end of 2020, over 10.8 billion EMV chip cards were in global circulation, an increase of nearly 1 billion compared to the previous year. For a world population of 7.8 billion humans, this shows an average of 1.38 card per human. Also, according to EMVCo, 86% of all card-present transactions conducted globally are using EMV chip technology, a milestone that represents a major achievement for the secure transactions industry. The COVID-19 pandem