Road to Sustainability: Eco-Friendly Card Body Materials and Industry Certifications
Eco-friendly materials for card bodies have become a sustainability trend. In 2022, more than 100 million payment cards manufactured from non-first-use PVC were expected be issued. This number…
How Smartcard Innovations Are Building Trust While Boosting the Digital Economy
The card manufacturing industry has seen shifts in e-commerce and other payment innovations over the last few years. With these innovations comes risks such as financial crime, fraud…
Biometric Card Growth
By Dave Tushie, Magellan Consulting, Inc., ICMA Standards and Technical Representative Biometric elements on cards continue their growth in the card industry. Cards with fingerprint sensors have been…
ICMA EXPO Presenters to Reveal Latest Card Manufacturing and Design Trends
By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor, ICMA Despite digitalization taking hold across the world, physical cards continue to play a key role in our daily lives and will for…
True Circular Economy: A Clean, Infinite Cycle
By Daniel Lützelschwab, Agent, Folienwerk Wolfen GmbH It sounds like a vision, but it is already reality: plastic can be recycled indefinitely. This requires the elimination of toxic…
The Rising Expectations for More Customization
By Jesper Domargård, VP Marketing Financial Institutions, IDEMIA Today’s consumers are increasingly looking for products and services that are compatible with their values and lifestyle. This trend isn’t…