Friday, October 2, 2009

In comes the university credit card

It's called the Charter University and is a rechargeable credit card dedicated to university students. It is in practice an evolution of the electronic document is intended for students and university staff that combines an innovative payment function, the characteristics of an identity card. The Charter, the first of its kind in Europe, was carried out by Banca Popolare di Sondrio, together with the University of Milan Bicocca and Politecnico and Visa Europe.
The intent is to combine fast and modern payment systems with effective means of recognition in order to raise the quality of service offered by the universities. The smart card can be used as a badge of identification visible to students, thanks to personal data and the passport photograph of the holder printed on the back, to access specific services and overhead of universities, or to record the presence on examination, to university elections, a specialized course or seminar but also to borrow books at the library. Regarding the functionality of payment, this is a smart-card prepaid Visa Contactless with the innovative system that allows you to pay costs of small amount, up to 15 euros, just closer to the card-enabled POS terminal, without insert or crawl. Furthermore, as a normal payment card, allows you to make expenditures from any store that accepts Visa cards in Italy and abroad (which are approved according to the rechargeable card) and cash withdrawals. The paper will be distributed from 14 September next year students of two universities in Milan. The others, about 40 thousand, may be required in the coming months. Banca Popolare di Sondrio For this is the first experiment on universities that can be expanded to other universities where the bank takes care of the treasury. The completion of the project have also contributed

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