The Future is Now: Biometric Smart Card Era Unfolds
By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor, ICMA Biometric smart cards have progressed through an extensive evolution from complex, bulky and expensive formats to International Organization for Standardization (ISO)-compliant, cost-efficient…
ICMA Recognizes Sustainable Card Products with EcoLabel Standard Program
By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor, ICMA There’s a swiftly growing global sustainability movement, particularly in the card manufacturing industry. According to a recent global study, 92% of companies…
Personalization to Meet Consumer Expectations and Lifestyle Needs
By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor, ICMA Personalization is the technical process of marking private data, specific to a given card, onto the card surface. Personalization is an important part of plastic…
Card Packaging Doesn’t Need to Cost the Earth
By Dane Whitehurst, Creative Director, Burgopak Every year without fail, the Royal Statistical Society in the U.K. releases its shortlist of the most arresting facts and figures of…
Go SEO: 5 Digital Marketing Trends for 2022
By Kelsey Tweedly, Marketing Manager, ICMA Business has been challenging for the last two years. Revenues may have dipped, while marketing budgets were cut. But 2022 looks like…
Élan Awards Celebrate Excellence in the Global Card Industry
By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor, ICMA As new ideas and technologies converge, cards are being reimagined and this year’s ICMA Élan Awards of Excellence entries are truly a…
Security Printing Elements Help Assure Authenticity of Issued Cards
by Dave Tushie, Magellan Consulting, Inc., ICMA Standards and Technical Representative While much of what is making news recently in the card industry concerns stronger cardholder authentication, often…
ICMA Founder Emeritus Al Vrancart Set to Retire
By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor, ICMA Al Vrancart remains amazed at how the global card industry has continued to evolve since the day he joined its trajectory more…
How to Capitalize on Rising Debit Card Popularity
New trends and use cases driven by the pandemic are opening new opportunities for the card industry By Dan Oswald, CEO, Arroweye Solutions The pandemic fueled the increased…
Card Technology Can Complement Digital Implementation
by David Tushie, Magellan Consulting Inc., ICMA Standards and Technical Representative While some contemplate the decline of the card industry as digital implementations accelerate and indeed proliferate, the…