Hybrid Oyster-credit card
 

Something interesting in an American article about using smartcards on
the New York Subway caught my eye:

"Cubic is already well under way with deploying just such a product in
London. The company is a principle shareholder in the TranSys
consortium, the group behind the Oyster smartcard system that provides a
seamless transition from buses, Tubes, trams and the rest of London's
mass-transit system. He said a bank--he didn't name it--has plans to
issue its own financial smartcards that will also be compatible with the
transit system. Think of it as a MetroCard and a credit card in one."

Does anyone have any clue about this bank's plan?

--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

Hybrid Oyster-credit card
 

Dave Arquati wrote:
Something interesting in an American article about using smartcards on
the New York Subway caught my eye:

"Cubic is already well under way with deploying just such a product in
London. The company is a principle shareholder in the TranSys
consortium, the group behind the Oyster smartcard system that provides a
seamless transition from buses, Tubes, trams and the rest of London's
mass-transit system. He said a bank--he didn't name it--has plans to
issue its own financial smartcards that will also be compatible with the
transit system. Think of it as a MetroCard and a credit card in one."

Does anyone have any clue about this bank's plan?

Sorry, forgot to mention that the whole article is at:
http://www.forbes.com/business/servi...22tentech.html

--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

Hybrid Oyster-credit card
 

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:23:57 +0100, Dave Arquati
said:

... the Oyster smartcard system that provides a
seamless transition from buses, Tubes, trams and the rest of London's
mass-transit system.

Does anyone have any clue about this bank's plan?

Does anyone have a clue what that seamless transition is?

--
David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Hybrid Oyster-credit card
 

London. The company is a principle shareholder in the TranSys

Does anyone have any clue about this bank's plan?

Does anyone at Forbes have a clue about what "principle shareholder" may
mean?

I'm guessing it's like a blind trust for ethics.