HP picks Carta for NFC mobile payments

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PARTNER NEWS: Transaction technology provider Carta Worldwide has been selected to support the delivery of “tap-and-go” mobile payment services to HP customers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Canada.

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“Flexible enough to be hosted on-site or as a managed service from HP, Carta’s agile cloud-based payments and tokenization technology will enable HP to meet the needs of its finance and telecoms sector customers to digitise their credit card services and ensure secure transactions through mobile devices,” Carta says.

“Carta is the only provider that offers everything our customers need for efficient and secure mobile payments, including provisioning, tokenization/detokenization, certified issuing processing, and mobile payment application development,” says HP’s Jon Gudelis.

Full details can be found in the press release:

Tokenization Technology Selected to Support Mobile Payments for HP

Toronto Canada, July 22, 2015 — Next generation payments technology provider Carta Worldwide has been selected to make tap-and-go payment services available to HP customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Canada.

Flexible enough to be hosted on-site or as a managed service from HP, Carta’s agile cloud-based payments and tokenization technology will enable HP to meet the needs of its finance and telecoms sector customers to digitise their credit card services and ensure secure transactions through mobile devices.

The approach, which enables customers to rapidly deploy an agile mobile payment technology for in-market learning has minimal back-end impact, lower total cost of ownership and rapid speed to market, provides HP with a future-proof roadmap for mobile payment solutions.

Brian Semkiw, Carta CEO, said, “HP is a perfect partner for Carta. They are a highly reputable provider of payments technology to the banking and mobile sectors, and their sales and sales support channel will allow us to accelerate the scaling of our business. We are thrilled to be able to announce this partnership.”

“We wanted a best-in-class solution to strengthen our mobile payments portfolio,” said Jon Gudelis, practice lead, financial services industry solutions, HP. “Carta is the only provider that offers everything our customers need for efficient and secure mobile payments, including provisioning, tokenization/detokenization, certified issuing processing, and mobile payment application development.”

Carta is exploring promising opportunities in different markets, with the goal of offering leading edge solutions to HP customers.

About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. With the broadest technology portfolio spanning printing, personal systems, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP delivers solutions for customers’ most complex challenges in every region of the world. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com

About Carta

Carta is an award-winning leader in digital transaction processing and enablement technologies, including Cloud Based Payments and Host Card Emulation (HCE), Tokenization, and Value Added Services such as Digital Offers, Loyalty and Stored Value solutions. Carta empowers OEMs, banks, MNOs, merchants, program managers and others to enable existing cardholder accounts or issue new and innovative products for the digital world. Carta’s unique Cloud Suite platform enables rapid deployment of mobile solutions with breakthrough technology that overcomes technical constraints of existing systems and infrastructure. http://www.cartaworldwide.com