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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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Why JPMorgan Wants A Piece Of The SMB POS Market

PYMNTS

Morgan is bringing payments to the point of sale (POS), with an eye on making inroads into a landscape dominated by firms such as PayPal and Square. Those latter two firms have been in the in-store POS market for quite some time (Square, for example, since 2009). and, by extension, the U.S. As reported this week, J.P.

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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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Square Chip Readers Get Speed Boost

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As card swipes turned to chip insertions across the U.S., Recently, to combat long lines and payments fatigue, financial, merchant service and mobile payment company Square rolled out a firmware update to its chip payment terminals. lines got longer and customers got more frustrated.

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Red Roof Inn Goes EMV At The POS

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6) it has been chosen by Red Roof Inn to deploy a new point-of-sale (POS) system across its over 470 properties. In a press release, Ingenico said, by implementing its iSC Touch 480 smart terminals, Red Roof has transformed its traditional checkout experience with a fast and easy multimedia POS.

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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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The Different Ways a Business Can Accept Credit Cards

Clearly Payments

This involves using a physical point-of-sale (POS) terminal to process card payments. How It Works The customer swipes, inserts, or taps their card on the POS device. Accepts contactless and EMV chip cards , which are more secure than magnetic stripes. Pros Fast and secure transactions.