Financial & ID Technologies - Analyst Blogs

Will Video/Interactive Tellers Eliminate the Local Bank Branch?
With Bank of America’s announcement earlier this month, regarding the roll-out of new ‘Teller Assist’ ATMs in Boston, it seems video and ‘interactive’ tellers are starting...
Date:18th April 2013

Jasper Wireless-based Operator Group Promotes “White SIMs” for M2M Market
The cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) market is steadily moving away from fixed SIM subscriptions toward so-called “white SIMs” capable of over-the-air downloading of new subscriptions....
Date:26th February 2013

All Power to the Powered Card
Working in the smart card industry, it seems there is never a dull moment. What may have seemed like a distant dream yesterday, appears to become a reality tomorrow.
Take powered cards...
Date:13th February 2013

ATMs Evolution – Survival of the ‘Techno’-Fittest?

Sierra Wireless Makes Another Move to Enhance its M2M Profile

Telefonica Announces the “Smart M2M Solution”

AT&T Gets Its AirOn for Over-The-Air Subscription Management of Its Global M2M SIM

IMS Research Announces its CARTES 2012 Promotion

How Bad Would Mobile Payments Be For the Smart Payment Card Industry?

Huawei Gets Aggressive in the European M2M Market

M2M Market Potential Drives Further Consolidation

Approaching 400 million Smart Cards Used in Transportation, but is NFC The Threat on the Horizon?

M2M Comms: The Whitespace between WAN and LAN

Bluetooth and NFC Pairing Together

Confidence Growing in New Access Control Technologies

Opportunity Matrix for Electronic Government and Healthcare ID

Ignoring China, How Successful Have Smart Card National ID Schemes Really Been? And What Does the Future Hold?

Just How Bad Would the Embedded SIM Be For the Smart Card Industry?

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