Companies Smell ID Card Opportunity

Wall Street may be indifferent about whether federal agencies meet an Oct. 27 deadline to begin issuing new ID cards for employees. "If it's Oct. 27 or March 27, I don't care," Jay M. Meier, senior analyst at Minneapolis' MJSK Equity Research, told Forbes. Either way, he says, "the opportunity is so big" for companies seeking to provide credentialing technology to the government. And eventually, Meier predicts, the standards set by the feds will become the global benchmark for credentialing.