Year after year student expectations continue to rise, and the higher ed institutions that stay ahead of the curve leverage data to strategically improve their student experience. The Student Financial Experience Report, an annual survey commissioned by TouchNet, sheds light...
Transact + CBORD (rebranding to Illumia in March 2026) announced a new agreement with sports and entertainment point-of-sale (POS) provider MyVenue. The partnership allows students to use their campus card and stored-value campus funds for purchases inside stadiums and arenas....
Campuses function like small cities, with countless departments, clubs, and organizations collecting payments for everything from event tickets to meals. According to Michael Wilson, Director of Sales at TouchNet, this complexity often leads to what he calls rogue payment points....
Genius, a unified Point-of-Sale solution from Global Payments, is now available for colleges and universities through TouchNet, A Global Payments company. Genius helps drive commerce and simplify back-end processes for higher education by integrating with existing campus systems, centralizing payment...
College athletic departments are more than just sports programs – they are complex business operations that manage major events, high-traffic facilities, and thousands of student and fan interactions. Many, however, still manage operations using a series of disparate systems for...
In a recent interview with CampusIDNews, Danny Johnson, Regional VP of Sales for Transact, highlights the company’s new IDX platform as well as other innovations. He describes IDX as the first fully cloud-architected, multi-tenant transaction system in higher education. By...
In 1998, Wells Fargo first linked their banking services to campus cards at Texas A&M and the University of Northern Colorado. By 2014, the bank had grown to support 37 institutions and their card programs. But change was in the...
Last summer, Harvard announced that it was phasing out its decades-old Crimson Cash declining balance program. Citing declining usage and the prevalence of open system debit and credit cards, they began a yearlong multi-step elimination plan. This month, the final...
Each year, the Student Financial Experience Report commissioned by TouchNet provides a unique glimpse into college students’ payment, ID, and campus service preferences. The 2025 study includes responses from 3,245 undergraduate students from the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia. It...
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Great inverview on the Public Key Open Credential (PKOC) standard with ELATEC's Jason Ouellette, Chairman of the Board for the @PSIAlliance.
Attn: friends in the biometrics space. Nominations close Friday for the annual Women in Biometrics Awards. Take five minutes to recognize a colleague or even yourself. http://WomenInBiometrics.com
