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DPAS Connect brings new capabilities, beyond payment, growing the scope of services to events, transports, loyalty and more. It allows merchants to strengthen their loyalty program and consumer engagement thanks to the new Data Storage feature.

The new CPACE standard was created by the ECPC to facilitate contactless payments in Europe. The CPACE ( Common Payment Application Contactless Extension) specifications were built on the EMVCo CPA standard for contact transactions, and was extended for contactless and remote payments.

There are many stages in a payment terminal life cycle, and payment solution providers must define their strategy at the earliest stage. Make the right decisions at the right time.

EMV technology is the international standard for secure payment systems and is present in most payment terminals where consumers use their chip & PIN cards or e-wallets to pay for goods or services. Payment terminal providers ought to integrate EMV® compliant payment systems and submit their products to the approval of EMVCo and payment schemes to be officially recognized. They must undergo several certifications at many steps of the device development

According Mastercard®, Tap on Phone allows businesses to accept payments from any contactless card or mobile wallet right from their NFC-enabled device. With no extra hardware required, businesses can take advantage of this on-the-go solution to enable quick and convenient payment options.

Visa approval services have recently made several announcements dedicated to their contactless kernels's updates, and especially the sunset of previous versions.

Automation test versus manual testing campaign : the big deal ! Automation testing uses automation tool to execute tests cases. Few manual involvement is required while executing an automated test suite which handles suitable software to test the program to be delivered to customers.

JCB Contactless is the Japanese JCB-branded contactless payment system that allows customers to shop by simply waving their card over the terminal. In their course of progress, the Japan based payment scheme has recently updated their contactless specification and released an updated version, the 1.6 release.

Earlier this month, Visa has released a specification update for its pilot Tap to phone kernel. The changes include the support of signature parameter, the clarification for “Reader CVM Required Limit Check” parameter

La Ciotat, France, Tuesday 23rd March 2021, Alcineo, a leading provider of secure digital payment and SoftPOS solution, is proud to announce that its SoftPOS SDK has received the certification of American Express ExpressPay contactless payment specification.

Fintech Providers myPOS and Alcineo Join Hands to Offer SMEs a New Way to Accept Payments via Smartphone. At present, payment technologies are developing with such speed that users are hardly managing to keep pace with them.

The Canadian based payment scheme has released in February a new version of their contactless specification, v1.8. The update incorporates the changes listed in the Bulletin #7 issued in May 2020 to reflect transit transaction behavior.

What solutions should payment solution providers integrate to enhance user experience and extend their offer on all markets ?

Visa transforming urban mobility conference takes place on February 25th 2021 Many topics will be discussed with speakers and experts such as mass transit, open-loop contactless payment and the challenges for transport authorities during the Covid crisis.

The EMV Contact Level 2 version 4.3j has been released recently on EMVCo website. Payment solution providers can now submit payment terminals to functional level 2 type approval with the 4.3j version.

SoftPOS, for software Point-of-Sales, is an innovative technology allowing to turn any Android smartphone into contactless card reader, using the NFC capability of the device. Any merchant can then accept contactless transactions on his smartphone without any additional hardware.

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The latest version of VCTKS (Visa Contactless Transit Kernel Specification) v 1.1 is now available. We constantly work on the improvement of our embedded software payment suite against the latest requirements released by international payment standards.

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