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From April 3rd 2023, payment terminal providers submitting their products to JCB contactless terminal IC type approval shall use the latest ICS form relating to the updated test program.
To be accredited with JCB, payment solution providers must register to JCB testing program and obtain a registration number.
The Japan-based payment system has recently released several documents to announce the addition of interoperability tests to be performed during the type approval sessions of contactless payment terminals submitted to JCB certification.
The purpose of interoperability tests is to ensure that contactless card readers have the capability to accept different types of cards, ie JCB contactless cards.
Last December 2022, Mastercard has published a communique to announce the introduction of a new test required for MCL Level 2 certification.
The new test is mandatory as of April 1st 2023 and will be performed during MCL type approval. The purpose of this test is to ensure that the MCL kernel do not support an AID comparison that causes the rejection of cardholder devices.
Earlier this year, the Japanese payment scheme JCB has published a new version of their IC terminal implementation guide.
To guarantee that the payment terminals certified to accept ExpressPay contactless payments meet the latest specification enhancements, American Express has recently released a document announcing the progressive sunset of the previous ExpressPay versions.
According to the document, the certification renewal of a terminal supporting ExpressPay version 4.0.2 will no longer be accepted as of October 31st 2023.
End of 2022, EMVCo announced a change in the EMV contact specification documentation. The documentation related to the update of the EMV Contact Level 2 specification version 4.4, integrating additional Specification Bulletins edited since the last version 4.3, is not yet available on EMVCo website.
Last December 2022, the Japanese payment scheme JCB issued a terminal specification bulletin announcing a modification applying on both specifications JCB 1.5 and JCB 1.6. The specification bulletin n°12 describes the requirement changes related to the Get Processing Options command.
Alcineo contactless payment suite includes the latest version of American Express specification for contactless terminals : Expresspay 4.1.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you consider updating your products with Expresspay 4.1
The MCL kernel developed by Alcineo now integrates the EMV bulletin 261 optional implementations rules. Although the bulletin is effective since January 2022, the implementation is optional according the latest test plan edited by Mastercard.
Our team chose to integrate the bulletin to our Ma-Kardia kernel, so our customers can integrate the solution to their terminals supporting Mastercard contactless transactions.
The canadian payment scheme Interac Corp has recently released an update to their contactless payment specification Interac flash, v1.9, that POS vendors must integrate to certify their new payment terminals that support Interac dual interface cards.