Payment Data Breaches
More than eight out of ten cybersecurity expect an increase in mobile payment data breaches over the next 12 months, yet 42% have used this payment method in 2015.
Early Warning + Authentify
Fraud prevention and risk management specialist Early Warning has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Authentify. Coupled with Early Warning’s 2013 equity investment and exclusive agreement with Payfone, the company has created a differentiated digital channels authentication solution suite that augments its identity and payments solutions.
Flint Mobile integrates Intuit Online
Flint Mobile announced the integration of its no-card-reader mobile payment app with Intuit’s QuickBooks Online, expediting end-to-end operations for small businesses that work outside traditional storefront environments.
Flint is the only mobile phone-based payment app that automatically syncs all transactions, line item information and customer information with the user’s QuickBooks Online account, eliminating manual data entry while also providing detailed reporting and customer history tracking not available with other platform integrations. These features extend Flint’s benefits for mobile business management, including the ability to take payments by scanning the card number with the camera instead of swiping with extra hardware, send invoices for easy online bill payment, handle cash and checks as well as card payments, and manage customized coupons with Apple Passbook integration. Merchants can begin accepting payments instantly with no need for a merchant account or waiting period for hardware delivery.
Flint Mobile Payments
Flint Mobile today announced the integration of its no-card-reader mobile payment app with Intuit’s QuickBooks Online. Flint is the only mobile phone-based payment app that automatically syncs all transactions, line item information and customer information with the user’s QuickBooks Online account, eliminating manual data entry while also providing detailed reporting and customer history tracking not available with other platform integrations.
Parking Boxx Integrates EMV Payment Gateway
Parking BOXX announced today their partnership with CreditCall. Parking BOXX will use CreditCall’s EMV-ready payment gateway in the Parking BOXX gated, multi-space, pay-by-phone, cashier and citation parking systems. The systems will be installed across North America with sites already live. CreditCall’s industry-leading card payment solutions are available across multiple channels, including-Multi-Space, Pay-on-Foot, Smartphone and web-based parking in the UK, USA and Canada. The company processes credit and debit card payments securely from unattended parking machines, as well as from phone-based and online parking reservation systems.
HID Global Awarded Gesture-based Access Control Patents
HID Global secure identity solutions announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted several patents for the company’s innovation related to gesture-based methods of using three-dimensional (3-D) motion sequences to increase privacy, security and convenience when using RFID-based devices such as smart cards and NFC-enabled smartphones for a broad range of applications. These patent additions strengthen HID Global’s IP portfolio of over 1,000 pending and issued patents and protect the company’s intellectual capital. The invention opens up a new field of gesture-based authentication and is particularly pertinent when incorporated into an NFC-enabled mobile phone. These user-defined, gesture-based passwords can also work in a two-dimensional mode similar to a combination lock, or they can also include 3-D motions such as moving to the left, right, forward and backward.
Gemalto supplies MTS Russia NFC SIM mTransport
Gemalto digital security is supplying Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) its “UpTeq NFC” high-end SIM cards for a mobile phone-based public transport ticketing solution. Designed and personalized at Gemalto’s Moscow service center, the solution can deliver increased efficiency and responsiveness for the swift deployment of MTS’ NFC program. In conjunction with Zolotaya Korona Russian payment and money transfer system, the ticketing service allows users to pay for journeys on buses and the metro in Novosibirsk, the country’s third-largest city, simply by tapping their mobile phone on an NFC reader. Over 95% of public transport turnstiles and terminals in Novosibirsk are already equipped with NFC readers and the new system is designed to replace the current paper tickets.
StarHub mWallet adds P2P Redemption with C-Sam
C-SAM secure mobile transactions technology and StarHub info-communication announced the newest update to the SmartWallet mobile app which will enable NFC and P2P mobile ticketing services. The mobile ticketing innovation is the world’s first NFC mobile wallet with P2P redemption of movie tickets. StarHub’s SmartWallet will allow customers to purchase Shaw Theatres movie tickets with their NFC-enabled mobile phones and then redeem these digitally stored entrance tickets with a single tap of the phone on a contactless reader at the cinema. This new capability reduces the time customers spend purchasing and redeeming tickets, creating a compelling and seamless customer experience for movie ticketing. Shaw Theatres, a leading theater group in Singapore, is the first company to deploy the NFC mobile ticketing service. SmartWallet offers three contactless payment card options: credit card, pre-paid card and an ePurse transit card.
ACI Worldwide Acquires Online Resources
ACI Worldwide will acquire Online Resources in an all cash transaction for $3.85 per share, per a recently inked definitive transaction agreement. With directors of both companies having approved the transaction, the integration of ACI Worldwide and Online Resources will make available to financial institutions the preeminent online and mobile banking, bill payment and presentment solutions. ACI Worldwide is recognized as the leader in the U.S. Large Bank Market for 2012 and a Company to Watch in 2013 by Aite Group. The addition of Online Resources’ payment and presentment capabilities will benefit customers by giving them the choice and flexibility to address a broader set of needs from a single integrated source and broaden ACI Worldwide’s customer base with the addition of 1,000 banks, credit unions, billers, credit card issuers, and other credit and payment service providers.
Wings FCU to Implement ORCC Banking & Bill Pay
Online Resources Corporation financial technology services announced that Wings Financial Credit Union will implement its Architect Banking solution and bill payment services. Wings Financial was founded in 1938 to serve employees of Northwest Airlines. It now serves air transportation employees nationwide as well as residents of the Minneapolis/St. Paul and Seattle/Tacoma metropolitan areas. This allows Wings Financial to seamlessly integrate other best-of-breed technologies into their banking solution to expand their service offering. Moreover, the advanced functionality for services such as online account opening, personal financial management, one-to-one marketing and social media integration, Wings Financial’s members will have access to a superior digital banking experience within a single, extensible platform.
ORCC Opens New Office to Tap Payments Industry Recruits
Online Resources Corporation financial technology services opened its Metro Atlanta office with the focus to gain the capacity to recruit local payments professionals. This as ORCC announced its one-year anniversary of its India office and the addition of 80 new employees. Both new offices will increase the capabilities and delivery options of its banking and bill pay solutions, further solidifying the company as a technology leader in the digital financial space within the U.S. and global markets.
Chase Terminal Allows Merchants to Accept Evolving Payment Method
Chase Paymentech launched its new “Future Proof” terminal, allowing merchants to accept current and quickly emerging forms of customer payments all in one streamlined device. Accepting EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa) chip cards, as well as phone-based mobile wallets and other forms of contactless payment – while maintaining a commitment to security, convenience and the current value of traditional card acceptance, the Future Proof terminal is available through Chase’s bank branch network and at www.chasepaymentech.com and is designed for a wide variety of merchants and offers unmatched flexibility in payment acceptance. Merchants can now accept- in addition to magnetic-stripe payment cards- EMV-enabled chip cards, which are less susceptible to counterfeit and other forms of fraud, offering greater security and more streamlined processing; mobile wallets, which will help businesses in the future establish two-way communications with customers, building loyalty and unlocking new business opportunities; and Contactless payments.