The Whitbread Group were nominated for a raft of awards at the European Retail Solutions Awards and their wins included Most Innovative Company of the Year, Best International Solution and Project Implementation of the Year.
Part of the innovation demonstrated by the Whitbread Group included their rollout of a new payments infrastructure, the first of its type globally supporting EMV.
When STS delivered its award winning Emvelink and SmartNS solution to retailers, it offered not only the ability to perform chip and PIN transactions but also the flexibility of adding new smart card applications or using these new PIN pads for other applications. This extensible framework has been evident through the additional use of applications such as loyalty and gift cards and the ease of access to new devices such as mobile EPOS using STS' Emvelink Mobile or contactless using Touchlink.
Smart Technology Solutions Limited (STS), an innovator in providing smart card solutions, announces the launch of G8way, using its award winning EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa) application, Emvelink. G8way delivers the first flexible payment solution to support all payments standards through one simple integration to either a retailers EPoS (Electronic Point of Sale) system or as a stand-alone payments terminal.
Global retailers and application providers are the big winners from STS' recent partnership announcement with Alaric.
Smart Technology Solutions Limited (STS), an innovator in smart card solutions, today announces its partnership with Tailwind Solutions to provide a cost effective and seamless contactless payment technology. Tailwind Solutions and STS have pioneered a unique technology and by using leading payment integrators, including Secure Retail, offer retailers a quick, cost effective solution to roll out contactless card readers. Retailers can capitalise on their existing Chip and PIN investment without losing valuable space at the point of sale.
In 2008, EMVCo announced that EMV certifications would now have an expiry date, necessitating new EMVCo Level 2 certification for new customer rollouts every 3 years. The intention of this change was to ensure that the EMV standard maintained interoperability and new installations were not being rolled out with dated and superseded solutions.
STS recently had the opportunity to discuss the use of smart cards with some of the key industry players of the Fuel & Forecourt sector. Recognised as innovators within the world of smart cards STS was asked their opinion on the best way to move this payments area forward. With many things to consider, none more than the customer experience, it seems that there are quite a few options open to the issuers of fuel cards.
The STS team braved the icy cold weather of New York in January to exhibit at Retail's BIG Show, hosted by the National Retail Federation (NRF). Although North America was experiencing a down turn in the economy, which sadly reflected in attendees this year, it still achieved close to 17,000 registrants, with no less than 62 countries represented. This gave us the perfect opportunity to promote ourselves as the truly global solution provider that we are and to get the low down from our cousins across the Atlantic on their payment market.
It's been a whole 10 years since STS launched Emvelink, our award winning flagship product. Much has changed in the payments industry since then and Emvelink has evolved to not only keep up with these changes, but to be ready for any future developments.
ITWell, a leading manufacturer in open OS based mobile Point of Sale terminals, today announced it has been working in partnership with Smart Technology Solutions (STS) to provide Chip and PIN functionality for its new PCI-PED certified Mobile Point of Sale (POS) terminal. This new technology has been developed to enable operators to quickly and simply process credit and debit card payments in a mobile environment, and to provide printed receipts for customers wherever they maybe.
