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Alan Laird

Management Consultant Card Schemes at ADL Card Systems

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Bio Providing management consultancy to organisations in all sectors wanting to start up card schemes. Work from a base in London (tel 44 7702010433) and in Turkey (tel 90 538 559 7963). Career History 2008 - present Established ADL Card Systems 2002-2006 Management Consultant with Accourt Ltd running public sector business 1978-2002 Various roles in Bull, Bull CP8, Integris and Honeywell related to IT, smart cards, marketing and sales. Graduate in Maths & Computer Science University of Glas

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Over four million account details stolen in massive cyber attack on Talk Talk

Why do TalkTalk need all this information? It's just so that they can "pull" funds from their customers. Why not work on a process based on the customer "pushing" funds to them?

27 Oct 2015 Reply Read article

London transport network to accept contactless bank cards

One problem with contactless is when you have multiple contactless cards in one wallet. Will TFL offer the user the option of registering one specific card for transportation be it bank issued or Oyster? This problem can only get more frustrating for the card holder when our mobile phones are NFC enabled.

26 Feb 2011 Reply Read article

MasterCard strikes Tfl Oyster branding deal

Will this mean that anyone with a Mastercard Paypass enabled card will be able to use it instead of an Oyster Card and get the benefit of the Oyster pricing structure? Will they need to register the card with TfL first? Whichever way it sounds good news. When will ATOC adopt the same approach on mainline services?

18 Jan 2011 Reply Read article

London buses to go contactless

The formation of the Open Transport Alliance (OSTP) is to be welcomed. The lack of a global approach to transport ticketing has, it could be argued, delayed adoption of cards by the transport industry. What does this mean for ITSO, the UK organisation formed to standardise card usage on public transport? It would be good to have a response from them.

09 Dec 2010 Reply Read article