Responding to banks’ efforts to reach out to people who do not typically use financial services, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan this week inaugurated the first Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) ...

Infineon Technologies AG and Fingerprint Cards AB announced the signing of a joint development and commercialization agreement of a plug-and-play turnkey solution for “a biometric payment smart card.” ...

Proponents of smart manufacturing often tout the advantages of connected machines, advanced robotics, and other digital technologies for achieving everything from faster production to a more engaged ...

The National Domestic Card Scheme of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), known as AfriGo, is set to partner with smart card manufacturing company, SecureID, on card adoption and financial inclusion.

No matter how dazzling a new technology seems, it’s meaningless if you aren’t using it to solve a business problem. That’s why it’s so important to begin with the business in mind as you decide which ...

While there has been significant support of digitization innovation, the manufacturing sector has been relatively slow to adopt digital technologies. This is problematic as digital ...

We are well into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a term introduced by a team of German scientists and made mainstream by Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum ...

The industrial environment is undergoing a significant transition in a time of fast technological advancement, and Industry 4.0, or smart manufacturing, is at the vanguard of this transition.