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Cards and Payments Australia

by Richard Taylor March 14, 2012 Identity
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Leading on from Cartes North America Following on from last week’s success at the Cartes North America show in Las Vegas, where ABnote was a Platinum sponsor, we are now looking forward to the Australian Cards and Payments Show which will be held in Sydney on 20th and 21st of March. At Cartes North America [...]

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Government Utopia…One Image, One ID, equates to Lower Costs and better security outcomes

by Steve Andrinos February 27, 2012 Identity
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Governments all around the world are facing unprecedented financial strain as the fall out of the global financial crisis continues to impact in various forms. All governments and their administrations struggle to manage their budgets against increasing foreign debt, unemployment, social security, education and health care demands. Then there is the national security agenda to [...]

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ABnote’s International Business Unit

by uwe ludwig January 12, 2012 Identity
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Background In the latter part of 2011 I was invited to establish a focused international business unit for the ABnote Group. I have had a strong and successful career in the Identity market, and specifically in the provision of products and solutions for credentialing and national identity projects. The opportunity presented by ABnote is expected [...]

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Privacy by Design

by Richard Taylor November 1, 2011 Identity
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In recently examining a range of global Government ID projects, I noticed that some of the most successful ones (if success is defined by adoption rates and use), share some common characteristics.  The successful projects are distinguished by offering: multi-application – to provide citizens with value and utility, 3rd party access to the infrastructure, security [...]

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What’s in store for ABnote at Cartes 2011?

by Steven Singer September 20, 2011 Identity
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We’re always heavily focused on Cartes at this time of year. But what makes this year truly different is the time and effort that we have expended thinking about the specific challenges that we have seen our customers facing over this last year. So with a bigger stand (for the 5th year running!) the ABnote [...]

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Identity and Financial Services

by Victoria Richardson September 13, 2011 Identity
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A few months ago, I attended an Identity and Financial Services round table in London, hosted by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI). From a product marketing perspective I was interested in understanding what (if anything) financial services organisations are going to do about offering identity services and what we can do – from [...]

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Technology Independent In The Smart Card World

by Olivier Cau September 13, 2011 Identity
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We’ve been doing some thinking and planning recently; looking at where the smart card market is going and defining our role in it. And one of the things that we’ve been talking about a lot is this business of being “technology independent”. We’ve debated the pros and cons of it internally and thought we’d share [...]

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