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Open Banking Payment Methods
Open banking payments are revolutionizing financial transactions by enabling secure, customer-author...
Read moreSupporting our customers at peak periods
Seasonal peaks are getting steeper and closer together. Customers often ask us about PXP Financial’s...
Embarkation - Forced 'Store and forward' for the cruise industry
The hospitality industry has many special provisions related to payment card acceptance not availabl...
Everything you wanted to know about chargebacks
Chargebacks are a bit of a dark art — or least they have that reputation. There’s the terminology, t...
10 top tips for hotels and cruise lines to prevent chargebacks
No business can wholly eliminate chargebacks. However, prevention is often better, simpler and cheap...
Chargebacks - The Jargon Buster
There’s so much jargon in the payments industry generally. One area not immune from this is dispute ...
PCI-DSS Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)? The PCI Data Security Standard...
The merchants guide to PSD2, SCA and 3DS
The Second Payment Services Directive – or PSD2 – is a directive created by the EU countries to regu...
The benefits of tokenisation
Tokenisation helps protect sensitive card data and reduce your PCI data security scope, which is gre...
SOC 2 – PXP Financial
PXP Solutions, the powerful system behind PXP Financial, has been through a rigorous auditing proces...
Protect your customers with point to point encryption (P2PE)
Learn how Point to Point Encryption (P2PE) can protect your customers’ card data and help reduce car...
Point to point encryption (P2PE): Application or Solution?
PXP Financial offers P2PE as a managed service for customers. You can either implement our certified...
How does P2PE protect your customers' card data?
P2PE removes sensitive cardholder data from your systems, leaving you with less data security stuff ...
Reducing data security liability
Accepting card payment is a necessary part of running a retail business. But storing, processing and...
What’s the point in point to point encryption?
The real point of P2PE is removing sensitive cardholder data from your systems, leaving you with les...
What's the point of data security?
The point of data security is about being secure. It’s about protecting your brand, your reputation,...
Supporting our customers at peak periods
Seasonal peaks are getting steeper and closer together. Customers often ask about PXP’s capacity pla...
Terminals & store-based acceptance during peak periods
In the run-up to peak trading season, retailers are thinking: in, over and out. How can they get cus...
Making your staff mobile
As more and more of our customers roll out mPOS in their stores, they are finding that making staff ...
How MPOS helps facilitate frictionless commerce
On the face of it, retail is a simple business. It’s about having the right goods at the right time,...
The five golden rules of EMV migration
By Graeme Zwart, PXP Chief Information Security Officer