Plastic Is Dead, Barclaycard Managing Director Admits

Anthony Jenkins Barclaycards Managing Director confidently predicted that plastic had no future and that the future of payments was in Near field Communications.

That's a bold statement from Europes biggest Visa issuer and acquirer. Especiually when major handset providers were only last year saying there was no demand for NFC (Sony Ericsson).

Barclaycards pilot of NFC first with O2 and then the roll out with Orange are clearly expected to make waves.

When I was at Barclaycard working on Visa Cash with BT Cellnet we piloted..........to read on Click Here

The government issued a little-reported document this month on ID cards. It was quietly published when the home secretary Jacqui Smith announced that some volunteer members of the public in Greater Manchester would be the first to receive ID cards in November.

These are 10 things from the document, “Identity Cards Act Secondary Legislation - An Impact Assessment”, which might not be generally known:

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