The Mondex "e-campus" smart card, a breakthrough application developed by Nextstage Inc. and Mondex Phils. Inc., will soon be available in other Asian markets. "There is tremendous interest throughout ...

MasterCard International has acquired 500,000 smart cards. It is the largest single purchase of the competitively-priced MULTOS-based chip card by Mondex Philippines, its subsidiary. Last December, ...

MasterCard began testing the viability of its smart card strategy in 1999 when it partnered with the Acer Group and Fubon Commercial Bank to launch a Mondex cash card program in Taiwan. Shuan Ghaidan, ...

As the world is moving digital, the country cannot afford to wait behind with the use of "mag strip" based cards, which are limited in their use. A card that has a chip, which allows for multiple ...

Canada's banks have quietly shelved - at least for now - a multimillion-dollar project they launched amid massive hype and hoopla six years ago in a bid to replace hard cash with the electronic ...

Seven US financial giants, including Chase Manhattan and Wells Fargo banks, have thrown their weight behind the UK-developed Mondex ecash smart card system. Mondex was originally set up in 1990 by ...

Partners for Mondex ? the smart card replacement for cash ? will be announced in autumn as part of a strategy to roll out the electronic purse across the UK, writes Dan Sabbagh. The list of partners ...

THE future of Mondex, the cash-replacement payment system, is in doubt after trials came to an end last month, with no firm plans to continue. The Mondex card was launched in Britain in 1995 by a ...