Huge sales of Apple’s iPhone 5s have helped made biometrics more popular with consumers, who have become used to the intuitive Touch ID fingerprint scanner. Eight in ten (79%) Brits are ready to ditch their passwords in favour of biometric security measures like fingerprint scanners, new research shows. iPhone 5s sales of more than 10 million
Today at the Retail Solutions Providers Associations (RSPA) RetailNOW show, Epson, a leading supplier of value-added Point of Sale (POS) solutions, announced the addition of two new printers to the company’s growing lineup of out-of-the-box ready solutions for mobile POS (mPOS) devices. Epson’s cost-effective TM-T20II and its under-the-counter TM-T70II are MFi (Made for iOS) compliant
A comprehensive survey of U.S. bank customers conducted for FICO , a leading predictive analytics and decision management software company, found that 82 percent of mobile banking app users are satisfied with their bank, compared with only 71 percent among those who do not use a mobile banking app, and 76 percent of the mobile
Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, has released a white paper that provides financial institutions with a roadmap for supporting mobile payments. Titled “The Four Pillars of Mobile Payments: Immediate Opportunities,” the white paper outlines how a strategic approach to mobile payments starts with the services consumers are using today. While
BitPay, the world leader in business solutions for the bitcoin digital currency,announces a new pricing plan which offers basic payment processing free-of-charge, forever. With the new pricing plan, BitPay is lowering the barrier to entry for businesses who want to accept bitcoin for goods and services. “We have set a goal to enroll one million merchants by the end
Diebold, Incorporated is thwarting criminals’ ability to capture automated teller machine users’ card data with its new ActivEdge card reader. The industry’s first complete anti-skimming card reader prevents all known forms of skimming – the most prevalent type of ATM crime – as well as other forms of ATM fraud. ActivEdge can help financial institutions
First Data, the global leader in payment technology and services solutions, has taken a key step to provide consumers with spending flexibility and help businesses grow through the acquisition of Gyft Inc, the Silicon Valley-based company that entered the $100 billion gift card market in 2012 and pioneered the concept of a mobile wallet for
ACI Worldwide, a leading international provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, welcomes financial thought leaders and global payments experts to its annual ACI Exchange Asia Pacific conference. Held throughout the year around the globe, ACI Exchange conferences are preeminent customer events with senior IT and business leaders from leading financial services, processors and retail
German retailers expect the impact of digital sales channels on their business to increase strongly. This is just one result of a study commissioned by Wincor Nixdorf, among others, from the leading European market research company, Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). This study, “Omnichannel commerce in Germany”, delivers current data and facts on the omnichannel strategies
Javelin Strategy & Research’s semiannual benchmarking study, Outperform, has revealed that Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo are digital banking leaders among the top 20 retail banks. But more surprising is that regional providers — SunTrust and Regions Bank — scored top customer-satisfaction positions alongside the giant banks. Javelin also found that digital-first
