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IBM Watson IoT and Visa announced the industry’s first collaboration that brings the point of sale (POS) to everywhere Visa is accepted, by allowing businesses to quickly introduce secure payment experiences for any device connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). The collaboration brings together IBM’s Watson IoT platform and cognitive capabilities, with Visa’s global [...]

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It has been almost 20 years since the paradigm shift in transaction transport, which made simple payment gateway integration available to an exploding community of web developers. Payment gateways became the plug-and-pay solution for the tsunami of new web-based, card-not-present merchants writes Cliff Gray, The Strawhecker Group. However, nowadays payment gateways are one part Jackson Pollock [...]

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The merchant acquiring market in Europe is operating on solid grounds of continuous transaction growth, however the cost pressures in the industry increases are very high, primarily due to new regulation, such as PSD2 and the interchange fee regulation. “The new interchange (IC) regulation that came into effect at the end of 2015 means that [...]

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Discover Financial Services (DFS) and PayPal have signed a tokenisation and digital payments agreement making PayPal more widely available to Discover cardmembers, acquirers and merchants. The agreement provides PayPal with access to Discover’s tokenisation services, expanding PayPal’s reach at POS, which will enable US PayPal customers to pay with their Discover cards at all of [...]

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Worldline has entered into a mutually beneficial co-development relationship with Hease Robotics, a French B2B service robot manufacturer, which delivers robots to the retail and hospitality industries. The partnership helps to extend service on customer-facing robots in public places, such as malls, shops, entertainment, event and transportation locations. Worldline will bring various technologies and industrial [...]

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