Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Global Payments taps Collis for chip testing

Friday, November 7, 2008

Global Payments, a provider of electronic transaction processing services, announced that it has selected Collis/B2 Processing Solutions Inc. to provide EMV Chip testing and certification tools for its Point-of-Sale payment solutions in Canada.

Collis’ testing platform provides Global Payments with the ability to validate the functionality and performance of Canadian card payment networks’ contact and contactless cards. Utilizing the Collis platform, Global Payments is also able to test international cards that may circulate with the expansion of EMV in Canada.

This testing environment provides merchants with the assurance that their Point of Sale solutions from Global Payments are fully EMV compliant. [end] 

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