EMV

Citi Cards along with American Airlines announced the addition to their 24-year Citi® / AAdvantage® credit card portfolio. Now the Citi ExecutiveSM / AAdvantage® World EliteTM MasterCard® will deliver exclusive elite-level travel services and experiences to American’s flyers.

The Citi ExecutiveSM / AAdvantage® World EliteTM MasterCard® provides a new class of cardmember privileges, including:

Clear2Pay, a provider of next generation payment solutions for financial institutions, announced an agreement with Techso (Pty) Ltd., appointed by the South-African National Department of Transport (NDOT), in association with Keith Smith Consulting.

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has released separate guidance papers on the use of end-to-end (E2E) encryption and EMV technologies in a payment card data environment. The documents are intended to provide the market with greater clarity on how these two specific technologies relate to the PCI Security Standards and impact PCI DSS compliance.

allpay Limited announced that it was granted Visa Card manufacturing and Bureau accreditation. Hereford-based company allpay partnered with Visa to pass the strict accreditation. Initially achieving Visa Bureau Vendor status, Visa Manufacturing Accreditation followed shortly after and includes card production and EMV chip embedding.

allpay can now offer its clients full Visa EMV production and services from its purpose built, highly secure production area which was developed with an investment in excess of £2 million.

A global card payment services company YESpay International Ltd has reported the completion of the EMV chip and PIN end-to-end certification of its EMBOSS card payment service with Chase Paymentech and First Data, two major card acquirers in the USA and Canada.

Now YESpay is partnering with merchants in the USA and Canada who need to upgrade their retail POS systems to EMV chip-and-PIN card payment standards.

As it has become known today, Gemalto has been chosen by the United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU) to deliver the first US issued, globally compliant microprocessor payment card.

 Dynamic Card Solutions (DCS), a provider of instant issuance and PIN selection solutions for banks, credit unions and retailers that issue magnetic stripe, EMV and contactless cards, has launched its new suite EMV Smart Start™ that is aimed at card issuers who want to issue EMV credit and debit cards. 

The company developed EMV Smart Start on the basis of its flagship CardWizard® card issuing software. The suite allows those who are not currently offering EMV cards to easily issue them instantly in branches or centrally in a back-office location.

 Dynamic Card Solutions (DCS), the leading provider of instant issuance and PIN selection solutions for banks, credit unions and retailers that issue magnetic stripe, EMV and contactless cards, today announced a partnership with Ontario-based Threshold Financial Technologies Inc. (Threshold) to offer financial institutions a comprehensive EMV PIN change and card issuance solution using DCS’ patented CardWizard® software.