Smart Cards news and trends

Pemo Adds Smart Cards to Spend Management Platform for UAE SMBs 
Spend Management // August 23, 2022

Pemo has added physical and virtual Visa payment cards to its all-in-one spend management solution for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and plans to make the full platform available in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan in the next 18...

Can Curve Make Smart Cards Work Where Others Have Failed?
Payment Methods // January 19, 2018

There have been a lot of smart card products announced over the last few years — Plastc, Coin, Stratos — that have generated a lot of buzz, but haven’t really had much success taking hold. Plastc blew up on launch and went under with $9 million worth...

Global Smart Card Market Continues To Grow
Mobile Commerce // September 19, 2016

The growth of the mobile commerce (mCommerce) and eCommerce industries is fueling the global smart card industry, which is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8 percent through 2020, according to a new research report. “The growth of mCommerce and eCommerce...

The Monsters Of Payments And Commerce
Merchant Innovation // October 31, 2015

The haunted commerce season officially comes to a close tonight after the last trick-or-treater departs. Most Americans will, at this point, determine they were either over-prepared for Halloween and now face weeks of eating candy for breakfast, or discover that they were underprepared and thus...

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IDEX Biometrics Receives Initial Order From Smart Card Manufacturer

November 22, 2023
IDEX Biometrics has received an initial order for IDEX Pay, its biometric solution designed for metal cards, from a smart card manufacturing partner in Asia. The partner, who was not identified in the release, will deploy biometric metal payment cards for its bank clients worldwide, IDEX Biometrics said in a Wednesday (Nov. 22) press release. […]