Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

Frost & Sullivan hosts Webinar on convergence of transit and payment application in Asia Pacific

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Frost & Sullivan’s Smart Card and Auto ID Practice in Asia Pacific will host an analyst briefing on smart card mass transit and payment application in the Asia Pacific on June 18th 2008, at 11:00 hrs Singapore time.

Both contactless payment and mass transit applications have become popular in Asia Pacific. Frost & Sullivan think the two are headed for a common platform

This briefing will look at: an overview of the APAC Mass Transit application as well as contactless banking application, issues and challenges for mass transit and payment/banking applications convergence. There will be an analysis on where APAC stands in the market, non-Card form factors as a platform for convergence - including NFC and finally an outlook on the way forward and where we are heading.

Anyone interested in registering for the interactive Webinar should send an email to Donna Jeremiah, djeremiah@frost.com, with the following information: full name, company name, title, telephone number, e-mail address, city, state and country. [end] 

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