Equens joins EPASOrg to establish interoperability in card payments
27-10-2009
Today, 27 October the international non profit organisation EPASOrg has been established for promoting, developing and maintaining card payments protocols.
EPASOrg promotes the widespread acceptance of the EPAS protocols, a series of standards to ensure interoperability between card acceptance an acquiring solutions, integrated retail and terminal management systems.
Card payment stakeholders are currently confronted to various non-interoperable message technologies, which hinder the current convergence process in payment and lead to higher development and maintenance costs. EPAS initially started as a project. Equens participated in this project from the beginning.
EPASOrg includes the following organisations amongst its members: Atos Worldline, Equens, Groupement des Cartes Bancaires, Hypercom, Ingenico, Pan Nordic Card Association, Quercia, The Logic Group, Wincor Nixdorf, Galitt, Ikea, Infomil, Integri, Lyra Network, Monext, PayLifeBank, Point International, POSPartner, Sermepa, SIBS.