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Ingenico terminal scores Google Mobile Services certification

Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment, today announced that its Axium D7 ECR-POS has achieved Google Mobile Services certification, making it the world’s first secure POS terminal to meet GMS requirements and properly run applications by Google.

14 June 2018

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Flexiti acquires TD Financing card portfolio

Flexiti, a leading provider of Point-Of-Sale (POS) financing and payment technology, today announced the acquisition of TD Financing Services’ (TDFS) Canadian private label credit card portfolio valued at approximately $250 million.

08 June 2018

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UK politicians round on Visa over breakdown

UK politicians are calling Visa to account for the hardware failure on Friday that left people across the UK and Europe unable to use their cards to pay for goods and services.

05 June 2018

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Divido brings B2B finance to the point-of-sale

Divido, the retail finance platform, is today extending its proposition to provide a B2B finance solution at the point of sale across Europe.

05 June 2018

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Verifone adds multi-purpose camera to portable POS

Designed to support on-the-go small and mid-sized business merchants (SMBs), Verifone introduces a built-in camera/scanner for the Verifone Engage V240m.

04 June 2018

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Visa outage hits payments across Europe

Card network Visa has confirmed that it is suffering a "service disruption" in Europe, leaving shoppers unable to use their cards at the point-of-sale.

01 June 2018

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ABN Amro says customers prefer wearables to debit cards

ABN Amro launched a pilot earlier this year in which 500 clients were asked to make payments using wearables. Of these clients, an impressive 78 per cent now prefer the wearables, and only 19 per cent prefer their debit cards.

01 June 2018

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JCB advances on Russia

JSC Russian Agriculture Bank ("RSHB") and JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., are pleased to announce the launch of JCB card acceptance on the RSHB ATM and POS terminal network.

01 June 2018

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PayPal and Temasek invest $125m in India's Pine Labs

PayPal's shopping spree continues as the US behemoth makes its third investment in a fortnight, joining with Singapore's Temasek to pay $125 million for a minority stake in Indian digital retail payments platform Pine Labs.

31 May 2018

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Aus Post begins trial of OneView mobile POS

OneView Group (AIM: ONEV), the retail industry’s leading provider of digital point of sale (POS), announced today that Australia Post has successfully begun a live trial for the Company’s Mobile POS+ software.

31 May 2018

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Ingenico negotiating combination with German card acquirer BS Payone

Ingenico Group, (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING), the global leader in seamless payment, today announced it entered into exclusive negotiations regarding the combination of BS PAYONE owned by DSV (a subsidiary of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe) with Ingenico Retail assets in DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

30 May 2018

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Payworks wins CyberSource gig with Visa

Payment technology company, Payworks, announced today its collaboration with Visa to integrate Payworks’ payment technology into the CyberSource payment management platform to enable an integrated Point of Sale solution and offer omnichannel payment processing capabilities to merchants worldwide.

29 May 2018

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Plutus launches NFC-enabled app for cryptocurrency at the POS

Cryptocurrencies are steadily gaining popularity, but the real challenge remains how to convince merchants to accept them.

29 May 2018

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London pushes contactless payments for busking

London has enlisted iZettle for a contactless payments system that enables the city's buskers to accept money from cashless fans.

28 May 2018

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Student develops contactless tipping system for buskers

The times, they are a changing. With fewer people carrying cash, a British university student has developed a system that lets buskers accept contactless payments.

25 May 2018

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Starbucks app beating off mobile payments competitors

Starbucks will remain the most popular proximity mobile payment app, staying ahead of Apple Pay and other competitors, according to eMarketer’s latest forecast on US proximity mobile payments.

23 May 2018

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OCBC Bank to push biometric POS to merchant customers

Singapore's OCBC Bank is to offer merchants a fingerprint-based point of sale device capable of handling multiple payment form factors and loyalty schemes.

23 May 2018

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Paya and CardFlight team up

Paya (pie-ya), a provider of simple, secure technology that enables fast and efficient payments for all businesses, and CardFlight, the leading mobile POS and SaaS payment technology company, announced today that Paya is now offering CardFlight’s SwipeSimple payment acceptance solutions to its merchants.

15 May 2018

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Car rental firm Sixt overhauls payments with Computop

The international mobility service provider Sixt has restructured its customer payment processes. Computop, one of the leading payment service providers, is the central service provider for customer payments from all channels and all of Sixt’s corporate countries.

15 May 2018

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McDonald’s selects Ingenico as long-term payments provider

McDonald’s, along with its franchisees, in the UK and Ireland has selected Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment, to handle the growth in demand for cashless transactions for the next five years.

15 May 2018