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Secure Retail is pleased to announce the acquisition of STS, a market leading UK-based payments acceptance software specialist.With over 25 years’ experience in the payments industry STS is a product-led company that invests heavily in developing high-quality payments acceptance applications in order to remain at the forefront of payments innovation.

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It’s hard to believe it’s 25 years since I took that leap of faith

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London, July 2021: – STS Payments, a leading payments acceptance software specialist, today announces it has partnered with MYHSM by Utimaco, to deliver a complete and secure payment solution.

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STS and one of its key partners in transportation, PDMS - a market leading software solutions and services company, are excited to announce the launch of their joint payments acceptance solution with its first customer, Shetland Islands Council – who operate ferries connecting 9 remote islands in the Shetland islands.

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STS Payments is very pleased to announce it has successfully achieved EMVCo Level 2 certification of the Ingenico Lane/3000 PED, along with the re-approval of the Ingenico iPP350, extending its support until 2024.

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London, 24 October 2019 PDMS, a market leading software solutions and services company and STS, a payments acceptance software specialist, have today announced a new strategic partnership that will deliver enhanced payments acceptance solutions for ferry and transportation operators.

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Airports and airlines globally are upgrading their IT infrastructure in order to improve customer service, increase flexibility, process ancillary revenues, reduce costs and enhance data security. Investments are being made in key technologies, including payments acceptance systems, in order to achieve these objectives.Common Use infrastructure

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The European Payment Services Directive (PSD2) requires payment users to be securely authenticated in order to enhance protection of individuals and reduce the amount of fraud occurring. These requirements are spelt out in the PSD2 Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) issued by the European Banking Authority and require compliance with this new law by the 14th September 2019.

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Criminals are increasingly targeting point of sale terminals in order to conduct financial fraud. They have recognised the high value of payment card data and seen that many retailers are not paying sufficient attention to protecting their estate of payment systems and sensitive customer information.

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 Accelerating Terminal Management System (TMS) independence 

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The way consumers shop and wish to pay for goods and services have changed radically over the last decade but the industry has not kept pace and adapted to these changes. At STS we believe that a new payments architecture is necessary. Here are reasons why we feel this is needed and the benefits it would bring to merchants and all payment industry stakeholders.

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London, 18 October 2018  STS, the payments acceptance software specialist, celebrates as it turns 21 today with the launch of a new company website.

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Accepting card payments on board trains, planes and ferries is tricky, because online authorisation of cards can be difficult or impossible with patchy or non-existent communications. To make matters worse, the major card schemes now mandate online authorisation for more types of card transaction. Many card processing systems don’t support offline authorisation at all.

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