Nano to be exclusively integrated into Kappture electronic Point-of-Sale devices June 19th, 2019 – Kappture, a leading Electronic Point-of-Sale (EPoS) company, has announced its intention to exclusively integrate Nano into its cutting-edge merchant devices. The integration will mark the forward-thinking...
Pay Smart – Drop The Cash – For the first time, we have six different generational groups existing simultaneously – from the Silent Generation right up to the emerging Generation Z. The advances of modern medicine have made this unprecedented state of existence possible but it brings previously...
I was midway through my British Airways holiday, finishing lunch in a rather nice hotel off the coast of Miami when I received a BBC News notification on my smartphone, announcing that thousands of British Airways customers’ details had been stolen in a malicious hack. It probably won’t affect me, I thought...
Guest contributor Ross Musgrove explores the conflict between consumers, their banks and retailers. I was at the Emerging Payments Association’s Retail PayTech Forum event last month. A good chunk of time and focus went on PSD2 and what it means for retailers. As part of that, the potential negative...
Georgina Nelson – TruRating – The main driver for most businesses today is data. Understanding your customers’ needs, habits and behaviour is something that every company aspires to. TruRating first came to life in 2013, when founder Georgina Nelson began to notice how influential online review...
The digital currency Bitcoin has tumbled to less that $8,000, meaning it has suffered its worst trading week since April 2013. It is a rude awakening for many investors who saw the cryptocurrency hit an all-time high of almost $19,000 back in November 2017 and though it has recovered slightly the trend...
Following two successful trials in South Africa, Mastercard has announced a new credit card that features the world’s first fingerprint sensor as part of its design. Mirroring the technology that is currently resident in mobile phone payments, users will be required to place their fingers over the sensor...
Recently the threat from ransomware has been grabbing most of the media headlines but what is often forgotten is that malware remains very much alive and active in the point of sale (POS) environment. Its target is retailers and hotel chains as well as small businesses who remain the ideal focus because...
