Region: Asia–Pacific

Nexgo Card Payment Speaker

Devices that provide audio messages at the point of sale are deployed widely in China at small and midsized merchants that offer QR code-based payments. They are gaining popularity in other markets, including India.

Pax A77 MiniPOS Terminal

Pax Technology’s A77 Android-based MiniPOS terminal shown here is the first POS terminal worldwide to receive PCI PTS 7 certification.

Visa’s Deal with Japan’s FTC

Under a voluntary plan, Visa will not leverage its position in the market to insist that acquirers use its authorization service to connect with issuers for credit card transactions.

Asia–Pacific Global Network Cards 2024

When measuring annual purchase volume per card, Diners Club led with $9,058, followed by American Express with $7,331, Mastercard with $1,997, JCB with $1,912, Visa with $1,671 and UnionPay with $1,319.

NewPOS Mobile Terminal

Expected end users for the New9830 include small and midsized retailers, restaurants, clinics and hospitality providers.

Digital Asset Infrastructure for PSPs and Acquirers

Utila’s digital asset adoption technology is enterprise-grade and was designed for the high-speed operations needed by payment service providers, payment gateways, issuers of stablecoin products, neobanks and others.

NFC-based E-Receipts

Pi-xcels, which has three patents pending or registered on its technology, estimates the number of terminals capable of using NFC-based e-receipt technology at 40 million worldwide.