An agreement to jointly develop secure ICs for contactless card systems has been announced by Infineon Technologies (Munich, Germany), a designer of secure chip cards, and Sony (Tokyo, Japan), a ...

Contactless payments have transformed everyday transactions by making them faster and more convenient, while still using advanced security features like encryption and dynamic authentication. Although ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who ...

Royal Philips Electronics announces that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Philips' advanced MIFARE® DESFire contactless chip technology to enable secure smart card ...

The onset of the covid pandemic spurred deployers and developers to bring contactless technology to the ATM, and now industry organizations are offering guidelines on the matter as deployers look to ...

Smart cards power card transactions and show up everywhere. The credit card in your wallet, the badge that unlocks your office, the SIM card in your phone, and the corporate card your finance team ...

Banks, credit card companies and retailers jointly embrace wireless. Season ticket holders can now use a cell phone to purchase items at concession stands in Philips Arena, home of the NHL’s Atlanta ...

ELIZABETH, N.J. — Wakefern Food Corp. here has become the second major food retailing enterprise to accept contactless credit cards from the major card associations as a payment vehicle. Wakefern, a ...

You’ll likely have seen the abbreviation “NFC” when browsing smartphone, wearable, and app features — but what exactly does it mean? Most smartphones have Near Field Communication, or NFC, technology ...

Imagine waving a wand and making something appear in your hands. While it’s not magic, the Cash App Wand could make that happen. Announced Thursday, Cash App Wand is the first in a series of Cash App ...

Using a biometric scanner on your credit card makes your transactions more secure, but it might not solve any real issues. Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a ...