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Business Wire: Verifone Leads Effort to Define and Implement the Newest Conexxus Mobile Payment Global Standard for Loyalty

Tuesday October 18, 2016

Verifone (NYSE: PAY), a world leader in payments and commerce solutions, has brought top mobile technology providers, POS manufacturers and fuel marketers together at Conexxus to establish a new Mobile API standard. Verifone is the first to adopt and deploy this new standard, creating a more consumer-centric mobile commerce environment in gas stations and convenience stores—and at the pump—by allowing tightly coordinated interaction between mobile payment and loyalty applications. Working with mobile payment early adopters to.....

Monday October 3, 2016

Version 2.0 of Conexxus’ mobile standard was released late last month, which means changes to the criteria the convenience-store industry uses to handle mobile payments, specifically in relation to loyalty programs. Linda Toth, director of standards for Alexandria, Va.-based Conexxus, shared with CSP Daily News some important details to keep in mind when implementing the new.....

Wednesday September 28, 2016

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Conexxus, the convenience and fuel retailing industry’s standards non-profit group, announced the ratification and immediate release of its Mobile Payments Standard, v2.0.

The new standard allows tightly coordinated interaction between mobile payment and loyalty applications, helping to create a more consumer-centric mobile commerce environment. An additional feature is the ability to operate loyalty both in cloud or local environments, independent of how the mobile payment is transacted, which allows for multiple use cases that link myriad payment and loyalty schemes into a single, standardized data exchange platform......

Thursday August 25, 2016

Conexxus and the National ATM Council (NAC) today announced issuance of their jointly developed ATM Skimming Detection & Deterrence Guide (Guide) for use at U.S. convenience stores. The Guide was created to help ensure that America's convenience stores and retail ATM providers maintain their excellent track record for providing safe and secure transactions at in-store ATMs, despite a heightened near term card "skimming" risk from current implementation of EMV at U.S. ATMs.....

Thursday May 26, 2016

Industry standards improve profitability by reducing costs and improving competitiveness.

Standards, in my early days of retailing, were always there to set expectations, something to work by, and measure compliance success with. Then I learned about technical standards. NAXML, EDI, ISO, ARTS, PCI—and the acronyms go on. These weren’t as easy to understand and were sometimes competing with one another. But I began to discover that underlying the “geek speak” was something where gears were in motion to make technology work within a business more efficiently and in an integrated way.....

Thursday May 12, 2016

Conexxus, the technology standards and advocacy group, named new members to its Board of Directors and elected new members to its Board of Advisors. Kevin Smartt, president & CEO, Kwik Chek Food Stores Inc. (Austin, TX), will continue to serve as the Conexxus Board of Directors chair, with the following members also re-elected,,,,,

Thursday January 28, 2016

Conexxus announced this week that prominent futurist Michael Rogers will be the keynote speaker at its Annual Conference, taking place at the Loews Ventana Resort in Tucson, Arizona, May 1–5. “We are truly pleased to have Michael speak at the Annual Conference,” said Gray Taylor, executive director of Conexxus. “Our industry serves the demands for convenience in our society, and Michael’s unique approach will enable our attendees to grasp all of the factors, not just technology, that will shape that demand in the future. His love of directly interacting with his audience and working through their questions always makes Michael a must-see speaker.....