Andre Stoorvogel, Marketing Manager at Bell ID Monday, 13th May 2013

Industry predictions indicate that 50% of smartphones will be NFC enabled by 2015. As interest and discussions in this sector continue to gain momentum, Bell ID is delighted to be joining other key players from the industry at the NFC Solutions Summit, 15-16 May in San Francisco. Hosted by the Smart Card Alliance and the NFC Forum, the event offers the perfect platform to discuss all things related to trusted service management (TSM) and token management for NFC-enabled services.

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Andre Stoorvogel, Marketing Manager at Bell ID Thursday, 18th April 2013

Next week, against a backdrop of EMV migration activity in the U.S., the smart card and mobile industry descends on Las Vegas for the annual CARTES North America conference. The Bell ID team is in attendance, located at booth #413, and available to discuss technologies that support EMV migration and near field communication (NFC) deployments.

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David Orme - Chief Executive Officer Thursday, 7th March 2013

At this year’s GSMA annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) event in Barcelona, near field communication (NFC) and mobile payments took centre stage. It was great to witness the introduction of the ‘NFC Experience’ at the exhibition, which saw 10,500 attendees test NFC-enabled handsets for themselves; exchanging information and making transactions within the exhibition centre and across Barcelona.

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Andre Stoorvogel - Marketing Manager Tuesday, 5th February 2013

This week sees the smart card industry head for Salt Lake City to attend the Smart Card Alliance Payments Summit. The Bell ID team is located at booth 123 and ready to discuss all things related to EMV migration, trusted service management (TSM) and near field communication (NFC).

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René van Rosmalen, Regional Manager Wednesday, 9th January 2013

Around the time of the CARTES 2012 conference in Paris, Smart Insights published an interesting article on the decline of independent trusted service manager (TSM) platform vendors. With moves from industry players to acquire standalone TSMs, will there still be room for the independents?

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Todd Freyman, Vice President - The Americas Thursday, 13th December 2012

Both EMV and near field communication (NFC) technologies serve the payments industry in different ways. EMV is widely accepted as the universal secure chip payment standard, while NFC is a global communication technology that allows data to be exchanged between devices that are in close proximity. Combined, these technologies will have a significant impact on the way payments are made worldwide.

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David Worthington - Principal Consultant Payment & Chip Technology Tuesday, 27th November 2012

We are excited about the impact that mobile and near field communication (NFC) technology could have on the transit and ticketing sector. Following Bell ID’s recent acquisition of smart card solutions company, Ecebs, we wanted to share our vision for the future.

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Andre Stoorvogel - Marketing Manager Wednesday, 5th September 2012

Round one of the near-field-communication (NFC) landscape is complete. The trials and pilots brought to market were a success and provided companies and joint ventures with an opportunity to test both their business approaches and technical capabilities.

As we move into round two, which will decide the winners and the losers of this advancing ecosystem, the appointment of the right trusted service manager (TSM) to support and manage NFC applications and services is crucial.

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Andre Stoorvogel - Marketing Manager Monday, 16th April 2012

This interactive platform is aimed at professionals in the smart chip (token) industry. The Bell ID blog will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing organisations deploying and managing tokens in the payment (EMV), transport and identity sectors, as well as stakeholders in the near field communications (NFC) mobile market.

The blog will be delivered by various Bell ID experts to provide you with comment and opinion on many of the issues surrounding smart token implementations. Please feel free to post your feedback using the comment facility below and we look forward to some engaging discussions.

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