What is ISIS and what does it mean for Merchants?
Merchant Warehouse | VIEW PROFILE
October 15, 2012
Henry Helgeson, CEOISIS is a unique partnership for us in that we're using NFC technology to accept payments at the merchant's counter top. It's one of the things that the card brands are driving to right now, and it's something that works off the traditional payment rails...
What is Genius STX?
Merchant Warehouse | VIEW PROFILE
October 12, 2012
Dan Dufault, Executive Vice President, Sales and MarketingGenius STX is a really important part of the launch of the Genius product family. Genius STX has been designed specifically for those merchants who are not using integrated point of sale. They want the same value...
What is Genius TX?
Merchant Warehouse | VIEW PROFILE
October 4, 2012
Dan Dufault, Executive Vice President, Sales and MarketingGenius TX is a great entry point into mobile commerce for merchants. Those merchants who want to be able to provide advanced functionality at the point of purchase, who want to get involved in mobile commerce can do...
What is Genius ITX?
Merchant Warehouse | VIEW PROFILE
October 4, 2012
Dan Dufault, Executive Vice President, Sales and MarketingGenius ITX represents really what is the flagship of the Genius product family. Genius ITX is really designed for merchants who have integrated point of sale, and it's designed in a way to be ultimately flexible,...
Inside PCI Compliance – What You Need to Know
Markiyan Malko | VIEW PROFILE
September 12, 2012
The compliance standards for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, or PCI DSS, are a set of rules that any merchant, bank, financial institution or any other entity that transmits, processes or stores sensitive cardholder data must follow. PCI DSS compliance...
What are Mobile Payments?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
August 22, 2012
Mobile payments are a new form of transaction that uses mobile devices to make payments from a user’s bank account or credit card account. Mobile payments require both a software and hardware component to operate. The software component of a mobile payment system includes a...
Google Wallet – A Look Inside
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
August 1, 2012
Google Wallet is an application ‘app’ available from the Android Market. The Google Wallet app was officially released in September of 2011 but adoption has been slow, leading them to recently rethink their original strategy. Anyone that has a mobile phone with the app...
What is EMV?
Marc Castrechini | VIEW PROFILE
July 18, 2012
EMV is the global card technology of choice and it’s coming to the U.S. There are an estimated 1.5 billion EMV cards worldwide and 21 million EMV terminals. Coupled with card adoption rates averaging 44.7 percent and terminal adoption rates at 76.4 percent, EMV’s global...
What is NFC?
Marc Castrechini | VIEW PROFILE
July 5, 2012
Industry analysts predict that 50 percent of smartphones will be NFC (near-field communication) enabled by 2015. In that same year, it’s anticipated that NFC-facilitated transactions will reach US$74 billion. Last year, 30 million NFC-enabled handsets, from leading manufacturers...
What is Genius?
Dan Dufault | VIEW PROFILE
June 12, 2012
A sea of change is on the horizon in the payments industry. Daily introductions of new payment solutions and value-added offerings are creating a constant, building cadence of entries that are flooding the industry. The deluge of new providers coupled with increasing demands...