Card Briefs: ANZ Adds Mondex Capability to Base24

Applied Communications Inc. said Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. has added Mondex smart-card capability to its Base24 transaction processing system.

Applied Communications, a subsidiary of Transaction Systems Architects Inc., said ANZ's Mondex-Base24 implementation is the first in the Southern Hemisphere.

The first phase of the rollout went live in December in an employee- cafeteria test in Melbourne. Plans call for adding nonemployee cardholders, point-of-sale terminals outside the cafeteria, and Mondex-compatible automated teller machines through next year.

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