The Monkey Awards have arrived in the office – they look fantastic!

The awards have arrived and I have to say they look very fetching indeed. Trust me, get one of these beauties on your mantlepiece – or in the boardroom and someone is going to notice! Colorful and distinctive and presented in a gorgeous back box with red silk lining. Who’s going to be the lucky… Read More

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 – NFC in the High Street

Today we’re looking at those nominees that have done the most either through rollout or trials to bring NFC technology right to the very heart of metropolitan commercial centers. You and I know it as our local high street. It’s true that the high streets in questions range from Dublin to Zurich, from Stiges to… Read More

CASSIS International organizes for an expanding global role

CASSIS International, a leader in trusted services for smart payments, mobile commerce and near field communication (NFC), today announced a new global organization that establishes a strong presence in the Americas, expands operations in Europe, and appoints David Eldon and Jackson Tai – two prominent figures from the financial industry – to the company’s board… Read More