Meet the Monkey Awards Nominees – Public Concern

This group is about more than just pure business – it’s about giving something back to the community, about serving the public trust, making the communities life easier. It’s also about successful, well run trials that actually push the cause of contactless further than ever before. Who worked the trials, what were they and more… Read More

Meet the Monkey Awards Nominees – Health / Entertainment / Lifestyle

This group – Health / Lifestyle / Entertainment throws up some very interesting applications above and beyond that of loyalty and payment-type applications we have grown accustomed to. This category was originally put forward to celebrate the diversity that comes from contactless technology applications and implementations. And there are many of them. For instance, here… Read More

Ingenico and Element Form a Strategic Partnership to Secure End-to-End Transaction Processing

Ingenico, the provider of payment solutions announced today that it has partnered with Element Payment Services, Inc., a leading provider of PCI DSS compliant payment processing solutions to software providers and merchants. Through this partnership, Element will integrate Ingenico’s end-to-end encryption algorithm with its tokenization solution to offer Ingenico’s customers with secure end-to-end transaction processing… Read More

Meet the Monkey Awards Nominees – High Throughput Beverage

It’s the battle of the beverages (sorry, couldn’t resist!) for this category and so far it seems to come down to coffee versus cola. Is there anything else – we don’t think so. It’s the High Throughput Beverage category. So let’s look at the nominees and why they made the final. First up it’s Prêt… Read More

Meet the Monkey Awards Nominees – In Restaurant Dining

For the next few weeks, we’re turning the blog over to Contactless Intelligence and letting them do the run down of the categories and nominations for the 2010 Monkey awards, sponsored by VISA Europe. Both here on the Krowne blog and on C-I.TV we’re going to give more information about the categories and the final nominees… Read More

Krowning Glory at the 2009 Monkeys

Following a year in which there has been a raft of new contactless deployments and a number of banks have renewed their commitment to the technology, the Krowne Online Broadcast Network (KOBN) has celebrated the achievements of those organizations that have done the most to make contactless technology a reality. KOBN’s Contactless-intelligence.tv (C-ITV) channel presented… Read More