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Payment Institutions & E-Money

PayPal Expands Its QR Code Payment Service

PayPal announced that it is launching payments with QR codes in 28 markets worldwide, including the USA, the UK, France, Hong Kong and Canada. Businesses can use QR codes to accept payments and consumers to shop contactlessly through the PayPal mobile app.

Cover of the EMVCo Software-based Mobile Payment Security Requirements document

Security

What is Software-based Mobile Payment Security Requirements?

“Software-based Mobile Payment Security Requirements” is a document published by EMVCo in April 2020 to guide payment application developers in building secure payment applications. This post summarizes its purpose and who it concerns.

Illustration of recurring payments and automatic card collection for subscription businesses

Merchant & POS

Key Points to Watch for in Recurring Payments

Winning customers is one of the most important things in business, but keeping them satisfied matters just as much. If you collect payments at regular intervals, such as monthly, these tips will help you improve the success rate of recurring collections.

UnionPay logo

Payment System Institutions

What is the UnionPay Online Payment System (UPOP)?

UnionPay Online Payments (UPOP) lets merchants in China, New Zealand, Australia and other countries extend their e-commerce stores to accept UnionPay payments. UnionPay supports over 5 billion cards in more than 140 countries.

Screenshot of a mobile phone showing a digital payment screen, illustrating digitalization and payment systems

Merchant & POS

A look at April 23 through the lens of digitalization and payment systems

Today is April 23, the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Grand National Assembly. Taking Children's Day as a starting point, this post looks at digitalization, Generation Z, blockchain, biometric payments and the cashless society from a payment systems perspective.

Contactless payment wave symbol printed on a bank card

Contactless

Does My Card Support Contactless Payments?

You can tell whether a card supports contactless payments by the four wave symbols printed on it. If the wave symbol is present, your card supports contactless transactions. If not, contact your bank for a new card.

Diagram illustrating the appeal stage of the card dispute and chargeback process between issuer, acquirer and card scheme

Payment Systems

What Is an Appeal? What Does It Mean in Payment Systems?

In payment systems, an “appeal” is the process of objecting to the outcome of a transaction dispute. It is usually discussed alongside chargebacks, but it plays a critical role in interbank dispute resolution, when a party asks the card scheme to re-evaluate a concluded decision.