Last year 30.2 million payment card authorization terminals with integrated chip and/or magnetic-stripe card readers were shipped worldwide, up 32.0% from 2013. These devices were connected to PC-based point-of-sale systems or electronic cash registers (ECRs) or used as stand-alone terminals. Smartphones, tablets, peripheral PIN pads that are not also card readers, ECRs, PC-based systems, and unattended kiosks are not included in the 30.2 million figure. The largest region for POS terminals was Asia–Pacific with 15.8 million terminals received in 2014, up 43.4%. This was an increase of 4....