Mondex is a brand of smart card technology, not a type of biochip. A transponder is a radio or radar transmitter/receiver activated for transmission by the reception of a predetermined signal.

The Mondex electronic money card hoped to make cash obsolete When the Mondex card was tested in Guelph, Ont., in 1997, it seemed paying for things with cash could be on its way out.

The Mondex "e-campus" smart card, a breakthrough application developed by Nextstage Inc. and Mondex Phils. Inc., will soon be available in other Asian markets. "There is tremendous interest ...

Canadians, it seems, want a single piece of plastic that would combine credit card, debit card and the banks' much ballyhooed Mondex "stored-value" or e-cash functions, not just another card ...

Mondex signs up partners for the electronic purse Partners for Mondex ? the smart card replacement for cash ? will be announced in autumn as part of a strategy to roll out the electronic purse ...

As smart cards begin to make their way into the hands of consumers, hopes are being revived among some technology promoters that people will soon use chip cards to buy goods through televisions with ...

MasterCard International has acquired 500,000 smart cards. It is the largest single purchase of the competitively-priced MULTOS-based chip card by Mondex Philippines, its subsidiary. Last December ...

Seven US financial giants, including Chase Manhattan and Wells Fargo banks, have thrown their weight behind the UK-developed Mondex ecash smart card system. Mondex was originally set up in 1990 by ...

The Mondex card was launched in Britain in 1995 by a consortium comprising NatWest, Midland Bank (now HSBC) and BT. It looks like a credit card and contains a chip that can be "loaded" with cash ...

Mondex also worked in vending machines outfitted with a card reader. Paying with plastic using a card terminal, and the convenience of going cashless, is familiar to Canadians in 2023.