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.
It’s hard to believe it’s 25 years since I took that leap of faith to start STS. It’s been such an exciting journey of discovery and achievement. It hasn’t all been easy, but I am so glad I did it.
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.
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, 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 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
