LITTLETON, CO November 6, 2006–Colorado, Inc. announced today it has partnered with Keycorp Limited (ASX:KYC) to manufacture MasterCard’s PayPass™ contactless cards for Banamex Financial Group. The issued cards will be introduced into McDonald’s fast food outlets throughout Monterrey, Mexico. This joint effort will mark the first PayPass program launched in Latin America and will put Banamex in the lead of contactless card issuers in Mexico.

Loyalty: Xiring for its Xi-Card Vida Bancomer, a pocket-sized reader designed for use with BBVA Bancomer’s “Vida Bancomer” program in Mexico.

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Keycorp Limited (ASX:KYC) has partnered with Colorado-based CPI Card Group to manufacture MasterCard’s PayPass contactless cards for Banamex Financial Group. The issued cards will be introduced into McDonald’s fast food outlets throughout Monterrey, Mexico.

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VeriFone, the San Jose, California-based payments technology vendor, has won a USD15 million order from GetNet Tecnologia to supply Vx Solutions point-of-sale payment systems to the Brazilian merchant acquire.

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Banks and credit card companies issued just over 35 million smart cards worldwide that comply with the international EMV standard during the first six months of 2006, a decrease from the previous six months. But banks and merchants are installing EMV-compliant point-of-sale terminals and ATMs at a growing rate.

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The U.S. government has decided against using contactless smart card technology in a new identification card that U.S. citizens will be able to use instead of a passport when returning from Canada and Mexico. Instead, the card will contain a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip of the type used to track cartons and palettes during shipment, says Frank Moss, deputy assistant secretary of state for passport services.

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If you shop with a major bank, chances are that all the transactions in your account are scrutinized by AML (Anti Money Laundering) software. Billions of dollars are being invested in these applications. They are supposed to track suspicious transfers, deposits, and withdrawals based on overall statistical patterns. Bank directors, exposed, under the Patriot Act, to personal liability for money laundering in their establishments, swear by it as a legal shield and the holy grail of the on-going war against financial crime and the finances of terrorism.

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Visa International is testing a battery-powered card with a display that would provide consumers with single-use passwords for online banking and shopping, according to Donald E. Malloy Jr., director of business development at U.S.-based InCard Technologies, supplier of the card.

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Your government and your tax dollars brought you the Internet and changed the world. Another group of federal computer geeks has put together a software package that may transform the high-cost, error-prone American health care system. It’s called VistA, for Veterans Health Information Systems & Technology Architecture.

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Palo Alto, CA, United States, 09/07/2006–New analysis from Frost & Sullivan Strategic Analysis on the Brazilian Smart Card Market, reveals that revenue in this industry totaled $125.9 million in 2005 estimates to reach $314.9 million in 2011.