VeriFone has announced its PAYware Merchant managed service is now available across Europe. The recently announced strategic partnership with Gemalto “completes VeriFone’s pan-European sales and distribution network and makes a continental payment gateway service feasible.” PAYware Merchant is a bank-certified, hosted payment solution for large retailers, fuel organizations and hospitality companies.

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VeriFone and RSA have announced a partnership to market an integrated offering combining their respective end-to-end encryption and tokenization solutions for secure card processing. The new offering, branded VeriShield Total Protect, will provide a consistent, consolidated approach to protecting payment card data from end-to-end, both pre- and post-authorization.

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Mophie,  popular iPhone and iPod accessory and battery add-on maker, will unveil at Consumer Electronic Show  in Las Vegas this month its iPhone credit card reader and third-party app .

Accessory, named “Credit Card Reader” along with a complimentary third party processing application will allow iPhone users to accept credit payments by swiping their credit cards through a special casing attached to their mobile phone.

The device, which will turn any iPhone into a credit card reader, will be a direct competitor to Square, which is developed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.

Mophie’s credit card reader will compete with other electronic payment solutions such as Swipe ($0.99 on iTunes App Store), VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile, Intuit’s GoPayment and Square.

VeriFone Holdings, Inc., (NYSE: PAY) today announced PAYware Mobile, a complete payment solution for the Apple iPhone that provides small businesses with simple and secure card processing capabilities on the popular smartphone platform.

VeriFone’s payment solution for the iPhone (www.paywaremobile.com) puts mainstream payment processing capabilities in the hands of small business merchants who need a mobile card acceptance solution for enterprises such as home repair, small cafes, door-to-door sales, or virtually any other type of business. The hardware and software solution will begin shipping January 15 and is available free to those who sign up for a PAYware Mobile secure gateway service agreement.

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