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Contactless Payments: Touch to Pay? Here’s What It Is

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It’s easy to implement contactless payments if you are working with a payment provider who offers the service. Touch to pay (also called tap to pay or touchpay) payment services allow you to make a payment simply by tapping your card, wearable device, or smartphone on a contactless payment terminal.

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Card networks face pushback over mobile EMV acceptance tech

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EMVCo, the major card brand-supported venture to establish EMV guidelines and specifications, has begun testing a program to determine if consumer mobile devices can securely accept contactless payments — a move that not only hastens the adoption of contactless payments, but renews criticism over which networks control technology and routing decisions. (..)

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Contactless payments is EMV's 'fast solution'

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Adoption of contactless is already well under way, and in a few years consumers will likely look back and recall the bad old days when valuable time was taken up waiting for transactions be processed and wonder how they ever coped without the speed, ease and convenience of contactless payment cards, writes Fiserv's Jamie Topolski.

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EMV contains a key that unlocks contactless payments

Payments Source

Contactless payments today seem to address the slowness of EMV contact without compromising security. And unbeknownst to many, it uses the same security protocol, writes Andrey Tikhonov, senior director of payment technology for Infinite Peripherals.

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EMV Chip Cards: What You Need to Know About PIN or Signature Cards and How They Work

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EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip card use has continued to expand in use since its tumultuous rollout in 2015. The EMV standard has now become a global standard for cards equipped with computer chips and the technology used to authenticate chip-card transactions. The chip does not affect the price of processing payments.

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JCB and Worldpay from FIS Look to Enable Contactless Payments for UK Merchants

The Fintech Times

JCB International Co has extended its collaboration with global financial technology leader FIS and its merchant solutions business, Worldpay from FIS, to enable ‘JCB Contactless’ for its UK merchants – becoming the largest JCB contactless deployment in the UK to date.

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For restaurants, pay-at-table devices are a chance to catch up with EMV

Payments Dive

Pay-at-the-table devices, which generally accept both EMV and contactless payments, could start to appear at restaurants in a big way during the next couple of years.

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