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Welcome Break has revolutionised its entire in-store payments system to improve speed of service to customers. Previously, the company’s point-of-sale and payment systems were not integrated, resulting in slow transactions, long queues and purchase abandonment. Further, daily reconciliation was slow and prone to human error which resulted in reporting inaccuracies.

Pennies, the electronic charity box, is an innovation in the charitable sector that harnesses retail payments technology to make it easy, affordable and secure for consumers to give pennies to charity as they shop and pay by card. If half of the UK's card-holders gave 8 pence a week in this way an additional £89 million a year could be raised every year.

The payments landscape is rapidly evolving with regulation and technological innovation combining to change consumer and retailer behaviour.

STS and French partner Spheragone are pleased to announce the GIE CB approval of the Ready2Pay-STS mobile payment solution for the Motorola MC 75 + DCR200 device.

Obtaining EMV level 2 approvals may not be the most glamorous of achievements, nevertheless it is essential to have these approvals to preserve the security and interoperability of card payment transactions globally. At STS, as the world's leading provider of EMV Level 2 kernels, we are proud to make it our business to gain and maintain these approvals.

Smart Technology Solutions (STS) and Mint Wireless (Mint) are partnering to deliver an enterprise portable Chip and PIN payment solution for the UK and Irish markets with Australia to quickly follow.

Thanks to PCI and EMV we have come along way from the days when both retailers and criminals had complete control over customer card data, but I can't help thinking when is enough, enough? As we all know there is a danger of both under and over insuring your property so shouldn't retailers be approaching PCI with the same caution?