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Understanding POS Security: Protecting Your Business and Customer Data

VISTA InfoSec

Given this recent wave of cyberattacks, all small businesses must do their part to secure their Point of Sale (POS) systems from unauthorized parties. Don’t Allow Swiped Transactions You may want to avoid processing older magnetic stripe cards in favor of Near Field Communication (NFC) and EMV chip cards.

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Challenges in the card payment industry—Navigating a rapidly changing landscape

The Payments Association

The rise of online shopping, contactless payments, and mobile wallets has increased the number of points where fraud can occur. While technologies like EMV chip cards (chip & pin), tokenisation, and biometrics have been developed to enhance security, fraudsters continue to adapt.

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Square Launches Appointments App For Android

PYMNTS

” In addition, the company said that users can accept payments fast — in under three seconds for chip cards — and they can key in payments even if they don’t have a signal. Users can also receive deposits as soon as the next business day or instantly “for just an extra 1% per deposit.”

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Worldpay Launches Worldpay Total In The US

PYMNTS

Connecting and simplifying payments across sales channels through a single integration point, Worldpay Total delivers end-to-end payment processing by combining point-of-sale (POS), integrated payments and acquiring for integrated software vendors (ISVs) and merchants. Worldpay announced Wednesday (Oct.

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At The POS Of The Future, Consumers Will Pay With Sound

PYMNTS

In 2013, Silicon Valley startup Clinkle raised $25 million in funding to build the point-of-sale (POS) system of the future using sound, but the company later changed trajectories, creating more of a Venmo-like product primarily aimed at college students. Innovators in South Korea, France, Israel and the U.K.,

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xPressTap: mPOS Without The Dongle

PYMNTS

Instead of a dongle, micromerchants download an app which turns their NFC-enabled phone into a point of sale (POS) system in minutes. The POS is capable of doing business with anyone who has a contactless card or NFC-enabled smartphone. First, users can have a customer tap their EMV chip card directly on the phone.

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Stripe Moves In-Store With Index Acquisition

PYMNTS

Stripe , the $9 billion payments processing startup, has acquired point-of-sale (POS) software developer Index. Index, which was backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s venture capital firm Innovation Endeavors, is well-known for its software for PIN pads that is able to read a chip card in under a second.