HSBC Merchant Services Launches Mobile Card Reader

HSBC Merchant Services — now a subsidiary of Global Payments — partnered with eMerit Solutions Limited to develop a new mobile payment acceptance reader for pairing with smartphone devices, Finextra reports.

The reader is fully EMV, PCI DSS and major card scheme compliant, the report says, and will become widely available to merchants by the end of 2012.

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