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New Year Resolution
The new year brings a time for deep reflections, renewals, hopes and desires. As a resolution at the beginning of the year, I always take the opportunity to revisit SCALA’s strategy, objectives, alliances, and goals to evaluate how we can improve the Alliance’s position to offer significant benefits to member organizations, expand our sense of community, and influence new markets. The first order of business is to introduce SCALA’s newly-elected Executive Committee. Read full letter »
Mauricio Augusto Coelho - Public Key Infrastructure Director at INT and
Claudio Piccolo - Senior Adviser at Banco do Brasil
Smart Card Alliance Latin America and Visa analyze the EMV landscape in South America.
An explanation of EMV and deployment options for chip cards in the U.S.
Predicting developments in mobile payments, Stapleton offers his take on NFC and transit.
The Identity Council explains how smart card technology protects online identities and transactions.
The push for transit agencies to accept open contactless bank card payments, and the technology enabling these innovations.
Center for Democracy and Technology
Directions for health information exchange and balancing privacy and security in healthcare identity.
The SCA Payments Council looks at mobile contactless transactions.
Latin America Smart Card News |
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- Smart Card Alliance Latino América (SCALA) Lanza la Guía para la Migración a EMV en América Latina y el Caribe (Spanish)
- Smart Card Alliance América Latina (SCALA) Divulga Guia de Implementação para Migração a EMV na América Latina e no Caribe (Portuguese)
- Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) Releases EMV Roadmap White Paper for Latin America and the Caribbean
- LaserCard recibe nueva solicitud de Green Cards estadounidenses por un valor de $8.6 millones de dólares (Spanish)
- Just Ask Gemalto, for Answers about Protecting Your Digital Lifestyle and Safeguarding Personal Information, Launches in Brazil: JustAskGemalto.com.br
- A LaserCard lança novas soluções em cartões de identidade inteligentes (Portuguese Version)
- LaserCard lanza nuevas soluciones en Tarjetas Inteligentes de Identificación (Spanish Version)
- Claro Brazil Selects Gemalto for Mobile Network Optimization
- Gemalto Awarded 2010 Latin America Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan
- GET Group's Toppan CP400 Printer Technology Selected for Qatar's National ID and Residency Card
- Visa Hits 100 Million Chip Cards Milestone in Latin American and the Caribbean
- GET Group's ID Technology Selected for New Belarusian Driving License
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Smart Card Industry News |
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- Negocios e innovación en el corazón de la exposición CARTES & IDentification 2011 es
- UBC transita hacia acceso sin llave es
- BofA expande tecnología EMV es
- Tarjeta inteligente Interpol es rápidamente aceptada en el mundo es
- Gemalto lanza Ezio, una tarjeta con funcionalidad de seguridad para online banking es
- Precise nombra distribuidor exclusivo en Brasil es
- Proyecto BioP@ss agiliza control de pasaportes es
- Nuevo carné y pasaporte chileno tendrán un chip con información del usuario es
- Los visados biométricos empiezan a funcionar en la zona Schengen es
- La última edición de Regarding ID en el visualizador de PDF interactivo es
- Informe: auge del mercado brasileño de tarjetas de pago es
White Papers & Case Studies |
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The Smart Card Alliance Latin America provides translations of selected Smart Card Alliance white papers. Spanish and Portuguese translations are provided below.
- SCALA Healthcare Case Study: InteliSalud: English
- Card Payments Roadmap in Latin America: How Does EMV Impact the Payments Infrastructure?: White Paper (English), Selected Quotes (English)
- Identity Paradox: Spanish, Portuguese
- Online Taxes: Spanish, Portuguese
- Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul – Banrisul Case Study: Spanish, Portuguese, English
- Identity Management Systems: Spanish, Portuguese, English
- Building a Chain of Trust: Spanish, Portuguese, English
- Secure Physical Access: Spanish, Portuguese, English
- Logical Access Security: Spanish, Portuguese, English
- Smart Cards and Parking: Spanish, Portuguese, English
- The Importance of Card Testing: Spanish, Portuguese, English
SCALA Webinars |
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- EMV Migration & Market Analysis–Mexico & Brazil
Spanish, Portuguese, English - Brazilian National ID and Digital Certificate Implementation
Industry Information |
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The Smart Card Alliance brings you a wealth of information about smart card technology and its applications.
- Smart Card Technology Primer
- Smart Card Applications
- Smart Card Glossary
- Smart Card FAQ
- FIPS 201 Resources
- Contactless Payments Resources
Latin America Chapter |
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The Latin American smart card market is growing, and the Smart Card Alliance has formed a new Latin American chapter to bring together smart card suppliers, partners and customers in order to address the challenges facing smart card deployment in the region.
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Our mission is to accelerate the widespread adoption, usage, and application of smart card technology in North America by bringing together users and technology providers in an open forum to address opportunities and challenges for our industry.
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