Wednesday, October 27, 2010

VeriFone and RSA to Deliver Comprehensive End-to-End Payment Card Security Service

http://www.verifone.comStrategic Partnership to Market VeriFone’s VeriShield Protect and RSA SafeProxy™ Architecture from EMC’s Security Division as All-Encompassing Solution Framework to Protect Data In-flight and At-Rest
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VeriFone Systems, Inc., (NYSE: PAY) and RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced a strategic partnership to market their end-to-end encryption and tokenization solutions as an integrated payment security offering to be branded VeriShield Total Protect.
“RSA and VeriFone are combining to solve this problem and let merchants focus on meeting customer needs, not mastering security protocols. VeriFone’s and RSA’s industry pedigrees create a gold-standard offering that processors and merchants can unify around as a single, stable answer to their security concerns.”
When implemented, VeriShield Total Protect will use industry-proven security technology and leverage electronic payment systems deployed in the majority of merchants world-wide to provide a consistent, consolidated approach to protecting payment card data from end-to-end, both pre- and post-authorization.
“Until today, merchants have had to navigate among a variety of technical offerings in order to protect customers and meet compliance requirements for credit card transactions,” said VeriFone CEO Douglas G. Bergeron. “RSA and VeriFone are combining to solve this problem and let merchants focus on meeting customer needs, not mastering security protocols. VeriFone’s and RSA’s industry pedigrees create a gold-standard offering that processors and merchants can unify around as a single, stable answer to their security concerns.”
In addition to proven technology, the goal of the strategic partnership is to bring extensive implementation and business enablement resources to processors to ensure successful deployment of the service within their infrastructure and sales channels. This will ensure broad availability and a deployment model that offers the greatest degree of risk reduction and PCI DSS scope reduction.
Processors will market the solution to merchants as a means to reduce cost and effort associated with PCI compliance, gain new abilities to safely use transaction data to support customer analytics and drastically reduce their overall risk profile. VeriFone’s VeriShield Hidden Encryption (VHE) preserves both data format and data field structure, so end-to-end encryption can be implemented without major retrofit with existing retailer POS systems. Elements of RSA’s SafeProxy™ architecture tokenize card data for safe storage and use by merchants post-authorization.
RSA President Art Coviello added, “Our collaboration advances the development of a payment industry ecosystem with pervasive built-in security. Our joint solution will ensure that payment processors don’t have to make compromises and can deliver a service that confidently answers their customers data security concerns. By delivering this service, we will enable processors to focus on innovating to serve their merchant customer base, not on becoming security experts.”
VeriFone will be offering VHE algorithms royalty-free to any point-of-sale producer interested in offering their customers compatibility with VeriShield Total Protect.
About RSA
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security, risk and compliance management solutions for business acceleration. RSA helps the world’s leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. These challenges include managing organizational risk, safeguarding mobile access and collaboration, proving compliance, and securing virtual and cloud environments.
Combining business-critical controls in identity assurance, encryption & key management, SIEM, Data Loss Prevention and Fraud Protection with industry leading eGRC capabilities and robust consulting services, RSA brings visibility and trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform and the data that is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.comand www.EMC.com.
RSA, SafeProxy and EMC are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
VeriFone Systems, Inc. (“VeriFone”) (NYSE: PAY) is the global leader in secure electronic payment solutions. VeriFone provides expertise, solutions and services that add value to the point of sale with merchant-operated, consumer-facing and self-service payment systems for the financial, retail, hospitality, petroleum, government and healthcare vertical markets. VeriFone solutions are designed to meet the needs of merchants, processors and acquirers in developed and emerging economies worldwide.

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VeriFone® Teams up with PayPal for Mobile Payments

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PayPal™ Bets it's Future on Mobile Payments
(Don't forget PIN Debit!)

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--INNOVATE 2010 -- At its second annual developer conference today, PayPal announced new mobile technologies and business relationships that will change the way people will shop and pay.
“Mobile commerce is the most significant change in retailing in the last century, and shopping will never be the same”
PayPal is a leader in mobile payments. The company offers mobile apps for iPhone®, Android® and Blackberry®, as well as tools to help developers and merchants build mobile-commerce solutions. PayPal expects more than $700 million in mobile payments to go through its system by the end of 2010.
“Mobile commerce is the most significant change in retailing in the last century, and shopping will never be the same,” said Osama Bedier, PayPal’s vice president of platform, mobile and new ventures. “PayPal is aggressively driving this change by redefining checkout on mobile devices for millions of consumers and businesses across the world.”
Mobile Express Checkout
PayPal announced the availability of Mobile Express Checkout, a secure two-click checkout experience on a mobile device. Consumers will have the ability to opt-in and remain logged in across apps to make purchasing even faster. The solution is easy to deploy for any merchants who already have Express Checkout on their online stores. Beta merchants have reported double-digit sales growth on their mobile stores after adding Mobile Express Checkout.
Starbucks will use Mobile Express Checkout for quick and easy reload of Starbucks Cards directly from its Starbucks Card Mobile app for iPhone and iPod touch®.
Beta merchants have reported double-digit sales growth on their mobile stores after adding Mobile Express Checkout. PayPal also announced that guest payments, the ability to accept credit card payments in addition to PayPal, will be integrated into Mobile Express Checkout in the first quarter of next year.
Mobile Payments Library
PayPal is adding key functionality to the Mobile Payments Library by supporting preapproved, chain and split payments. Developers can now use preapproved payments for subscription-based business models and use split and chained payments to take a cut of transactions between buyers and sellers. As with Mobile Express Checkout, consumers can opt-in and remain logged in across apps to make purchasing even faster.
PayPal Mobile for iPhone® 3.0
A new location-based feature allows PayPal iPhone app users to find businesses accepting PayPal wherever they happen to be. Merchants can attract nearby customers to their stores by sending deals and promotions to customers’ phones, and customers can pay for goods or services at local outlets with PayPal or a BlingTag® from Bling Nation. This new local service is initially available in beta in the San Francisco Bay Area. Interested merchants or service providers can sign up at www.paypal-labs.com/local.
VeriFone®
VeriFone is joining the PayPal developer ecosystem and will be the first device manufacturer to collaborate with PayPal to offer merchants the ability to take credit card and PayPal payments anywhere using its PAYWare mobile merchant app. The new service will also let customers “bump to pay” using functionality from Bump Technologies built into the PayPal app and the PAYWare app. This will allow the millions of PayPal merchants who have both an online and offline presence to accept payments wherever they happen to be.
Appcelerator®
PayPal has teamed up with Appcelerator, the leading platform for mobile, desktop and iPad™ applications, to make it easy for PayPal’s 8 million merchants to create mobile commerce apps. Appcelerator allows merchants to build apps on all three major mobile platforms (iOS, Android™ and BlackBerry®) from one Web code base. PayPal and Appcelerator expect to launch the joint mobile commerce offering in 2011.
About PayPal Mobile
PayPal, a division of eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY), has been delivering mobile payments since 2005 and has a mobile app for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry smartphones, as well as SMS and WAP-based payments solutions. PayPal offers merchants an easy way for shoppers to checkout on mobile websites via Mobile Express Checkout and mobile developers can use PayPal for in-app payments using PayPal's Mobile Payments Library. In 2009, $141 million in payments were transacted over PayPal's mobile applications and PayPal expects to close out 2010 with more than $700 million in mobile payment volume from 5 million PayPal members worldwide.
eBay Inc. launched its first application for the iPhone in July 2008 and has since become a leader in mobile commerce. Its core iPhone application, which is available free via iTunes® in eight languages and 190 countries, has been downloaded more than 12 million times and allows users to fully browse and buy without leaving the application. The eBay app for the iPad debuted in the top ten most downloaded free iPad apps in the iTunes Store and delivers a dramatically different, visually compelling shopping experience to browse and purchase the vast selection of products available on eBay. eBay’s suite of mobile apps, including Selling, Classifieds, StubHub and Deals, make selling and buying possible virtually anywhere, anytime. In 2009, eBay’s mobile gross merchandise volume (GMV) – the value of all goods sold – was more than $600 million. eBay expects to generate $1.5 billion in GMV through mobile commerce in 2010. For more information on eBay mobile, visit www.ebay.com/mobile.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements relating to the future performance of eBay’s businesses that are based on its current expectations, forecasts and assumptions. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding future growth in mobile commerce. Those statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those discussed. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, consumer acceptance and use of eBay’s mobile applications.
More information about potential factors which could affect our business and results is included in eBay's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, its Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other periodic filings. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to eBay on the date hereof, and eBay assumes no obligation to update such statements.
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Contacts

PayPal
Anuj Nayar, 408-967-5730
Director, Global Communications at PayPal
anayar@paypal.com
or
Access Communications for PayPal
Meagan McCrystle, 415-516-3029
mmccrystle@accesspr.com
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