{"id":7033,"date":"2017-06-28T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T10:26:19","slug":"transforming-smartphones-into-unique-pos-terminals-for-micro-sized-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/transforming-smartphones-into-unique-pos-terminals-for-micro-sized-retailers\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming smartphones into unique POS terminals for micro-sized retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British company Worldpay has developed and is testing a mobile application that allows for payments to be received via smartphones which support an NFC device. These mPOS terminals were developed for small- and micro-sized retailers that are currently operating with only cash. All that is needed is to install a firmware application, and the smartphone can then accept contactless card transactions without the aid of any other equipment or software. One of the main advantages of this system is that it does not require a chip and PIN like top-end POS terminals do.<\/p>\n<p>Worldpay has announced that it plans on outfitting approximately 50 British different areas of MSME (micro -, small-, and medium enterprises) with this technology this year, such as hairdressers, small cafeteria and others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-7033 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Sberbank offers online loan process to SMEs'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/sberbank-offers-online-loan-process-to-smes\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/closeup-of-business-woman-hand-typing-on-laptop-keyboard_1232-2750-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-9888\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-9888'>\n\t\t\t\tSberbank offers online loan process to SMEs\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='FinTech companies voice opposition to PSD2'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/fintech-companies-voice-opposition-to-psd2\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fintech-companies-voice-opposition-to-psd2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12976\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12976'>\n\t\t\t\tFinTech companies voice opposition to PSD2\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Sberbank and Alfa-Bank make first Russian bank transfer using blockchain technology'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/sberbank-and-alfa-bank-make-first-russian-bank-transfer-using-blocking-technology\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2lRwcN4G0cCR8KpmOwWhQNLBE7QdSz0a6lu0LMIj-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-7396\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-7396'>\n\t\t\t\tSberbank and Alfa-Bank make first Russian bank transfer using blockchain technology\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British company Worldpay has developed and is testing a mobile application that allows for payments to be received via smartphones which support an NFC device. These mPOS terminals were developed for small- and micro-sized retailers that are currently operating with only cash. All that is needed is to install a firmware application, and the smartphone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,10],"tags":[35,70,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7035,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions\/7035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}