Datacard Group has announced that it will host a seminar to educate bank executives, financial card issuers, acquirers, service bureaus and retailers on EMV technology and NFC adoption in the U.S. marketplace.
This three-hour seminar is part of Datacard Group’s EMV technology educational series led by industry expert Guy Berg. According to Datacard, seminar attendees will learn about EMV technology requirements and how EMV technology can converge with NFC. The seminar will also examine the implications for Visa’s recently unveiled plans to bring these two technologies to the U.S. market.
Berg, who has more than 20 years experience in the banking and credit and debit card industry, has worked on global EMV technology projects over the past 12 years and is considered an industry expert in EMV technology, U.S. contactless chip cards, NFC payments and the electronic payment ecosystem, according to Datacard. Berg has presented recently at Smart Card Alliance EMV technology workshops and at the Merchant Advisory Group (MAG) U.S. EMV technology migration panel.
Datacard Group, which currently provides some 200 EMV technology solutions around the world, will host the seminar on Nov. 8 at SOMA, 795 Folsom Street 1st Floor, in San Francisco, CA. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/financialidnews-4.gif)
EMV is definitiely coming to the US. Will it be contact or contactless or will NFC enabled phones provide for the end of plastic cards? One major bank in the US issues 30,000+ plastic cards per month, that is a lot of oil. I attended the Smart Card Alliance webinar and Mr. Guy Berg is very knowledgeable in the EMV migration happening in the US. This would be a very interesting seminar for anyone who knows EMV.