Verifone Engage has become the next generation family of payment devices that globally redefines what’s expected of point-of-sale (POS) hardware and software. Verifone Engage is the company’s first-ever, fully-integrated, Linux-based product family, encompassing a complete range of payment solutions for merchants, acquirers, and service providers.
With huge influx of new payment solutions into the industry, both opportunities and challenges for merchant acquirers have reached a new level. There is paradigm shift from conventional services, such as accepting mag-stripe debit/credit cards, and mail and telephone orders, to new acceptance channels as a result of e-commerce/m-commerce, contactless technology, mPOS and omni-retailing.
In today’s CardFlash News Que: SYNAPTICS (Vibe P1); TIMETRIC (acquiring); HYPERWALLET (award) and THREATMETRIX (cybersecurity).
New research shows just over 2.1 billion EMV cards were issued worldwide in 2014, up 27.5% from 2014. The exponential year-on-year (YOY) growth rate was driven by significant EMV issuance into the United States and China.
Verifone’s end-to-end encryption and tokenization solution has been vetted against PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) requirements. VeriShield Total Protect protects merchants, payment providers and consumers alike.
Verifone and Heartland Payment Systems have reignited their strategic alliance to launch key initiatives aimed at providing merchants with enhanced security and EMV-ready payment processing.
MasterCard Peru acquirer, Procesos de Medios, will deploy EMV-capable mobile point of sale (mPOS) terminals from VeriFone, over the next two years.
VeriFone’s UX Solutions series of unattended payment devices has achieved an industry-first certification to Canada’s first and only contactless debit payment solution, the Interac Flash 1.5 contactless payment specifications.
VeriFone Systems announced that Banco Nacional de Costa Rica (BNCR) has selected VeriFone’s VX Evolution line of portable EMV and NFC capable point of sale terminals to enhance payment mobility and security for merchant customers throughout Costa Rica. BNCR’s migration to VeriFone’s VX Evolution terminals will enable its merchants to accept all types of payments”including traditional mag-stripe as well as EMV and NFC”from customers at and beyond the counter while complying with PCI 3.0 standards. The bank expects to install 14,000 of VeriFone’s VX Evolution terminals each year for the next four years to its installed base of approximately 32,000 Hypercom terminals. BNCR will install PCI 3.0 certified terminals from VeriFone’s VX Evolution product line. They include the VX 520, the VX 675 and the VX 680.
VeriFone and iPayment, Inc.,announced a complete tablet point of sale solution. iPayment POS is designed for the more than 150,000 small business merchants iPayment currently serves directly, through independent sales organizations (ISOs) and other multiple direct distribution channels throughout the U.S. This solution is a combination of VeriFone’s industry leading GlobalBay Merchant technology and other iPayment proprietary solutions.
VeriFone announced five devices in its “PAYware Mobile” line of EMV- enabled mPOS devices have been approved by the Visa Ready Program. The program is designed to ensure that devices, software and solutions used to initiate or accept Visa payments are compatible with Visa’s requirements. By adopting “PAYware Mobile” devices that are Visa Ready approved, merchants enjoy the benefits of secure electronic payment acceptance from virtually any location. PAYware Mobile solutions from VeriFone are innovative mPOS devices that enable retailers and merchants to extend the POS to new environments. PAYware Mobile devices feature universal, PCI compliant mPOS adapters that transform smartphones and tablets into completely secure devices that can accept contactless, chip and PIN and traditional mag-stripe card payments. Some devices also accept NFC payments and feature high-end barcode scanning for additional functionality such as remote inventory management, checkout and access to product information.
VeriFone Systems won the 2014 Merchant Payments Ecosystem (MPE) Award in the mPOS category at MPE 2014. Selected by the MPE Awards Committee for its portfolio of PAYware Mobile solutions that transform smartphones and tablets into completely secure mPOS devices that can accept payments from traditional mag-stripe cards as well as EMV (chip and PIN) cards. VeriFone built its portfolio of PAYware Mobile solutions based on feedback from merchants and retailers. PAYware Mobile provides a complete, scalable and secure mobile payment solution for all segments–from large retailers to small merchants–enabling payment mobility anywhere and everywhere.