News

Samsung Pay adds gift card option via Blackhawk Network

Wednesday 28 October 2015 13:20 CET | News

US-based prepaid payment network Blackhawk Network has partnered Samsung Pay to allow the integration of gift cards into the Samsung Pay mobile payment solution.

Combining Samsungs magnetic secure transmission (MST) technology with near field communication (NFC), Samsung Pay is compatible with magnetic stripe, EMV and NFC terminals. Also, Samsung Pay uses digital tokenization, Samsung KNOX (a suite of mobile enterprise security solutions that provides device protection, management and development options) and fingerprint authentication.

Blackhawk Network is a prepaid and payments network which supports the program management and distribution of gift cards, prepaid telecom products and financial service products across a global network. The company’s digital platform supports prepaid across a network of digital distribution partners including retailers, financial service providers, and mobile wallets.

In late 2014, Blackhawk Network has integrated with Google Wallet.


Free Headlines in your E-mail

Every day we send out a free e-mail with the most important headlines of the last 24 hours.

Subscribe now

Keywords: Samsung Pay, Blackhawk Network, mobile payments, NFC, mobile wallet, EMV, tokenization, US, MST, Samsung Knox, fingerprint authentication
Categories: Payments & Commerce
Companies:
Countries: World
This article is part of category

Payments & Commerce






Industry Events