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Financial Services Smart Cards in the US: Where are they Now?

Published by Mercator Advisory Group, Inc. Contact us : +1-860-674-8796
Published 2004/01 Content info 26 Pages
Product code MAG17676
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Description TOC

1. Introduction

2. Top-down Overview -The Global Smart Card Picture

3. The Local Picture

3.1. American Express Blue
3.2. Close, but no cigar? Smart Visa & Smart MasterCard
3.3. Right on Target
3.4. Visa Smart Rewards

4. The Business Case for Smart Cards ? What is it exactly?

4.1. The Limitations of Magnetic Stripe Technology
4.2. The Untapped Potential of the Smart Card
4.2.1. Payments / Stored Value:
4.2.2. Loyalty / Rewards:
4.2.3. Access / Security:
4.2.4. Information Storage and Processing:
4.2.5. The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Partsc
4.3. Decreasing Cost of Smart Cards & Infrastructure
4.4. Debit Card Replacement
4.5. Identity Theft Paranoia
4.6. A Consensus of Technical Specifications and Standards
4.7. Tried and Tested Elsewhere

5. Cost Analysis - Who pays for what?

5.1. Card Associations
5.2. Issuing and Acquiring Banks
5.3. Third-Party Processors
5.4. Merchants
5.5. Hardware and Software Vendors
5.6. Cardholders
5.7. Overall Cost Analysis

6. Making the Business Case

6.1. Tipping the Balance
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