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.
STS is pleased to announce support for three new PIN pads, the NEC PW-PE33, VeriFone's Vx810 and ITWell's XPDA-V. Using STS' flexible smart card framework, SmartNS, STS partners are able to gain access to these with no further device integration requirements.
STS announces that it has developed the software to provide chip and PIN functionality for the new ITWell Mobile Point of Sale terminal, the XPDA-V. Through this work, the ITWell XPDA-V POS will be available for use as an EMV Level 2 enabled mobile point of sale.
STS was pleased to have held its first Technical User Group Seminar in the last week of February. With guests from Japan, USA, Germany, Spain, France as well as UK visitors, it was an opportunity to bring together partners of STS to discuss the future of smart card technology.
STS has always been at the forefront of the EMV wave in the UK and is now embracing some of the 'younger technologies' such as contactless that are emerging. But, if you cast your eye beyond the British shores at the moment you can see the same wave of EMV activity that the UK saw in 2005 / 2006 happening elsewhere.
STS have appointed new distributor ITOS Outsourcing Services to manage a network of resellers and provide local support and sales functions in Spain. ITOS have been involved in the payments arena in Spain for many years and have a range of their own PIN pads and mobile payment devices as well as their own POS applications.
The move to EMV in the APAC region is really starting to gather momentum with countries like New Zealand in the process of migration and Australia set to switch over in the next 1-2 years. With this in mind STS have partnered with Australian-based consulting and solutions company, Smarta Technology.
Through STS, the Co-operative Group is now able to gather up to 300,000 customer responses from stores around the country within 24 hours at a saving of £100,000 a time.
STS doesn’t always make a habit of promoting other people’s literary endeavours, however we are always willing to encourage and highlight the work of people we consider visionaries in our field. One of these industry visionaries is Mike Hendry, a consultant who has worked globally with banks, retailers and service providers, specialising in electronic payments.
Malaysia and the UK have been the global leaders in the roll-out of smart cards into the consumers’ hands. This roll-out, driven by the growing use of EMV-based credit and debit cards, is gradually being replicated into new markets as these cards replace magnetic stripe cards.
Smart Technology Solutions Limited (STS), an innovator in providing smart card solutions, announces the launch of its contactless payment system, Touchlink. Touchlink, based on its award-winning Emvelink, a plug-in for the STS SmartNS framework, offers all retailers and banks a versatile platform for the introduction of contactless payment schemes.
Smart Technology Solutions Ltd. (STS) announces that it has provided Capita Software Services' range of managed services with a flexible, easily integrated platform to cater for emerging and future smart card and payment applications.
Smart Technology Solutions Ltd. (STS) announces that, on behalf of Canon's strategic partner, ECR Retail Systems, it has developed the software to provide chip & PIN functionality for the Canon KT-1 Mobile Point of Sale terminal.
YESpay International Limited has seen continued success with it's EMBOSS bureau service with recent customer acquisitions including Jollyes and Hotel Chocolat. YESpay's EMBOSS, providing a pre-accredited, PCI certified solution, has utilised STS' award-winning Emvelink since 2004.
STS is proud to announce the release of its new EMV Level 2 kernel, Emvelink Mobile. Designed specifically for Windows CE devices, Emvelink Mobile is the world's first EMV Level 2 kernel supporting multiple handheld terminals. Emvelink Mobile has been brought to market in conjunction with partner manufacturers including Canon and Fujitsu, to facilitate the next wave in payment acceptance.
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