More on Chase's "blink" Contactless Cards

The full press release announcing the program is available here along with a fact sheet on blink (PDF). More information is also available at Chase's new blink website.

"We believe these innovative cards with blink will provide merchants and cardmembers with the increased speed and convenience they want at the point-of-sale," said Carter Franke, chief marketing officer of Chase Card Services, the company's credit card division.

"In the future, Chase cards with blink will also allow us to reward cardmembers at the point-of-sale and provide merchants and our cobrand partners with an opportunity to build even stronger customer loyalty programs."

Chase says it will begin a market-by-market rollout of the "Chase credit cards with blink" this summer - after working with merchants in each market to ensure the broadest possible acceptance at launch. Chase says that, by the end of 2005, it plans to have thousands of merchant locations accepting Chase cards with blink.