Tag: Ingenico

Worldline Acquires Ingenico to Become “European World-Class Leader in Digital Payments”

Two European rivals are coming together to form one of the largest payment service platforms globally. Financial services company Worldline is set to acquire point-of-sale provider Ingenico

Choices at Vending Machine: More Than Salty vs. Sweet

The choices offered by today’s payments technology can be found everywhere – even at the vending machine.

Sure, you can still find machines where you can insert and reinsert that dollar bill with the bent corner. But an increasing array of options is making paying for the snacks more convenient for consumers and managing the machines easier for operators.

MasterCard Thinks It Can Standardize Mobile Loyalty. And It Might Be Right

For mobile payments to move into the massive adoption phase, some version of loyalty/couponing will be essential. Otherwise, once the novelty wears off, there are simply no sustainable reasons for shoppers to stick with mobile. But with every mobile player preparing to somehow push loyalty, the chance of having conflicting incompatible technology is all-but-certain. Can MasterCard change that?

On Tuesday (Nov. 17), the number two card brand introduced a loyalty middleware specification that it hopes will be adopted widely enough to give mobile loyalty a chance to grow seamlessly. Given that few if any mobile payment schemes will be offered without support for at least one issuer’s MasterCard, the card brand seems a sufficiently politically neutral player to sidestep the usual vendor resistance. In MasterCard’s statement, the brand said it’s proposed specification “enables mobile applications to offer a seamless connection between payment, promotions and loyalty redemption. It enables consumers to select their loyalty card, the coupons/promotions they want to redeem, and make a payment in a single or double tap at a contactless terminal.”