In my last blog post about mobile payments and the opportunities for acquirers, I defined mobile payments from our perspective and how we regard the structure of the market landscape for it. 1. mPOS The payment is executed on a mobile device of the merchant, card present Examples: Square, payleven, SumUp 2. mCommerce Payment is [...]

After 12 months of being in Chip&PIN/EMV mPOS, we would like to reflect on the technical integration of Chip&PIN into our multi-channel platform, and how it further enhanced our platform capabilities. Looking back, it was a challenging task to enable the platform for card-present transactions. In a recent blog, Christian laid out all the related [...]

PAY.ON’s long-standing claim has been “Powering Payment Providers”. Naturally we are providing PSPs around the globe with state-of-the-art payment technology, and these days more than 100 PSPs on all continents are relying on our services.   As the VP Business Relations I am also responsible for PAY.ON’s relationships with acquirers. They are, just like our [...]

PAY.ON and Web Shield Ltd. have entered into a service agreement to further enhance PSP’s, ISO’s and acquirers’ risk management environment. Thus, Web Shield’s merchant due diligence and risk management monitoring software is now available in PAY.ON’s value-added services. With this partnership, Web Shield is expanding its global distribution and further fostering its market presence. [...]

Mobile payments have been in the talks for many years without seeing any kind of break-through. But, recent market developments give us reason to believe that now the time is right for mobile solutions that change our businesses, the way we act and live, and that even have the power to change our society.   [...]

This week I gave an interview in ThePaypers regarding further challenges in the Mobile Payment market. At PAY.ON, we constantly analyse market trends, technology developments, consult with clients and industry experts. Regarding mobile payments, we decided pretty early to develop suitable solutions for and with our clients. We wanted to make a difference with our [...]

This week I gave an interview in the ThePaypers regarding new market-driven merchant onboarding requirements and how PAY.ON is solving these through its platforms PaySourcing and PayPipe. The conditions have changed: The new generation of merchants wants a direct and streamlined access to the payment network including free individualization of the payment process. Additionally, the [...]

Every day, when I head home from work from the PAY.ON headquarters, after a couple of hundred meters I pass the Wiesmann Alps shop, which sells dream cars such as the one pictured below. As you can see, Wiesmann is a maker of absolutely gorgeous sports cars, which gives me something to dream about on [...]

Security and Compliance are always very important in our daily business. Because of the complexity and size of this topic I only touch some aspects and also leave room for questions. Please feel free to comment – I am glad to start a discussion with you.   When talking about security in mobile payments, the [...]

New payment schemes now available on COPYandPAY! Let us recall, COPYandPAY is one of our latest web-based solutions within our multi-channel PSP/ISO platform-as-a-service. The solution simplifies payment integration for merchants to the max. All merchants have to do in order to gain access to over 100 available payment methods – including 3D Secure – is [...]