Secure Retail completes acquisition of Smart Technology Solutions (STS)

Secure Retail is pleased to announce the acquisition of STS, a market leading UK-based payments acceptance software specialist.

With over 25 years’ experience in the payments industry STS is a product-led company that invests heavily in developing high-quality payments acceptance applications in order to remain at the forefront of payments innovation.

STS Payments employs MYHSM’s secure and versatile HSM as a service to securely accept and process cardholder present transactions

London, July 2021:STS Payments, a leading payments acceptance software specialist, today announces it has partnered with MYHSM by Utimaco, to deliver a complete and secure payment solution.

Shetland islands ferry operator is first to go-live with STS and PDMS payments solution

STS and one of its key partners in transportation, PDMS - a market leading software solutions and services company, are excited to announce the launch of their joint payments acceptance solution with its first customer, Shetland Islands Council – who operate ferries connecting 9 remote islands in the Shetland islands.

One of the biggest headaches for ferry operators is the lack of reliable, fixed communication and network connections. However, they still require robust, fast and secure transaction processing capabilities.

STS, in partnership with Embross, achieves second successful accreditation for airport multi-merchant self-service check-in solution

STS, a leading payments acceptance software specialist, and Embross, a leading self-service technology provider, today announce their partnership and successful accreditation of an in-airport self-service check-in solution. This is the second successful multi-merchant payments acceptance solution that STS has developed, with initial deployment set for Calgary Airport, Canada.

STS successfully completes certification of new PED – further enhancing USP to provide choice & flexibility to customers

STS Payments is very pleased to announce it has successfully achieved EMVCo Level 2 certification of the Ingenico Lane/3000 PED, along with the re-approval of the Ingenico iPP350, extending its support until 2024.

PDMS and STS Payments form a strategic partnership to improve the on-board payments experience and increase payment options

PDMS

London, 24 October 2019 PDMS, a market leading software solutions and services company and STS, a payments acceptance software specialist, have today announced a new strategic partnership that will deliver enhanced payments acceptance solutions for ferry and transportation operators. Merchants and consumers will benefit from an integrated mobile solution that supports Chip and PIN, contactless and NFC payments on-board ferries, at ticket offices and in environments without reliable telecommunication links.

Upgrades planned for Airport IT infrastructure - Payments acceptance a key driver

Airports and airlines globally are upgrading their IT infrastructure in order to improve customer service, increase flexibility, process ancillary revenues, reduce costs and enhance data security. Investments are being made in key technologies, including payments acceptance systems, in order to achieve these objectives.

Common Use infrastructure

Strong Customer Authentication required by September 2019

The European Payment Services Directive (PSD2) requires payment users to be securely authenticated in order to enhance protection of individuals and reduce the amount of fraud occurring. These requirements are spelt out in the PSD2 Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) issued by the European Banking Authority and require compliance with this new law by the 14th September 2019. Awareness levels of these regulations remain very low and time is rapidly running out to make the necessary changes.

Improving control at the point of sale

Criminals are increasingly targeting point of sale terminals in order to conduct financial fraud. They have recognised the high value of payment card data and seen that many retailers are not paying sufficient attention to protecting their estate of payment systems and sensitive customer information.

Merchants are encouraged to increase the attention they pay to payment terminals. This will take a variety of forms including physical protection, enhanced data security, remote management, plus device and transaction monitoring.

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