NCR Corporation, has announced that Shell Oil Company, has added NCR’s Radiant Point of Sale (RPOS) petroleum and convenience solutions as a new option for Shell Branded Wholesalers. Beginning today, Shell branded wholesalers not only have a new choice to handle the everyday transactions inside the store and at the fuel pump, but also handle
PesaPrint has launched a cashless fare payment system for Kenyan public service vehicles (PSVs), adding to the competition in the multi-billion transport sector. Business Daily reports PesaPrint’s cashless system interoperability enables it to accept mobile money payment services such as Safaricom’s Lipa na M-Pesa, MasterCard’s PayPass and Visa’s PayWave. Competition is rife in the PSV
Heartland Payment Systems is now offering its customers the innovative, cost-effective VersaPay ARC eInvoicing system as a means of eliminating the time, cost and cash flow challenges associated with paper invoices delivered by mail. Under a reseller agreement between Heartland and VersaPay Corporation’s U.S. subsidiary, Heartland is providing U.S. small and mid-size businesses with the
MasterCard has partnered the Grameen Foundation on AppLab Money, an initiative designed to create mobile financial services products for the unbanked and underbanked in Kenya. The collaboration is aimed at enabling low income communities in Kenya to access innovative financial products, with AppLab Money aiming to take appropriate mobile financial services to communities most in
Evolving customer preferences and new digital technologies are driving material changes in payments according to Westpac’s Chief Product Officer, David Lindberg. Contactless debit cards have already been embraced by Australians with 60 per cent of all scheme debit card transactions in Australia now made using contactless technology1. This trend will be further boosted by the
Square, the company enabling sellers to start, run, and grow their business, has hired Alyssa Henry to lead engineering for the company. Alyssa will head up engineering operations for Square’s infrastructure and payments platform, which processes tens of billions of dollars in payments annually. Most recently the Vice President of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage
The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as online payments, web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some
Nairobi county governor Dr Evans Kidero has signed an agreement with online payment platform JamboPay in a move to stamp out corruption in revenue collection in Kenya’s capital. The e-payment platform will be accessible through mobile phones, online, and physical agents. In the agreement signed at City Hall with Danson Muchemi, JamboPay chief executive officer
NCR Corporation, has announced the appointment of a major channel partner, Shanghai Anmao Information Technology Company, as its reseller for the full range of NCR POS (point-of-sale) solutions, including the NCR SelfServ Checkout. NCR offers a complete complement of hardware, software and services geared to make every day easier at fueling stations, hypermarkets and supermarkets
South Africa’s ABSA bank has announced the launch of its Payment Pebble, a device that allows businesses and vendors to accept card payments through a smartphone. The device allows businesses to accept chip-and-PIN and magstripe-and-PIN payments from Mastercard and Visa cardholders. “The Payment Pebble is a compact, mobile device that simply plugs into the audio
