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The image of dual tone multi frequency signalling (DTMF) has come in for a makeover recently in contact centers. The engine behind automated IVR menus for many years, it also now facilitates new ‘keypad payment by phone’ technology to help keep customers’ card numbers safe when paying over the phone for goods and services. The …
It’s just been reported by the British Retail Consortium that payment by card now accounts for more transactions than all other payment types combined in the UK. In particular, there’s been a massive growth in the use of contactless card payments, so much so that there’s speculation that we may be moving towards becoming a …
Cash is no longer king – how does this affect the payment card industry? Read More »
A recent survey by PWC found that over 90% of US companies surveyed viewed GDPR compliance as one of their top data security priorities in 2017, and over half of those stated that it was their single most important issue of concern. Why is this? In May 2018 the EU’s general data protection regulation (GDPR) …
As you probably know, there’s a lot of pressure on organizations to ensure that they are compliant with the new EU GDPR regulations by 2018. At Syntec we’re increasingly asked how PCI DSS and GDPR are related. In this blog I’ll discuss the overlap between the two and how PCI compliance can help you then build …
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We are often asked whether consumers using DTMF ‘keypad payment by phone’ systems like it; whether there are any barriers to take-up; and whether it increases or reduces average (call) handling times (AHT) in contact centers. Taking these in turn: Customer preference and experience Consumers generally hate reading their card numbers out over the phone to …
When my wife was in hospital in the late 1990s, I saw that the numbers given for the bedside phones were attached to that handset, so if you moved bed you had to have a new number given to you, which was inconvenient for everyone involved. I realised there was an opportunity to create portable …
