Ingenico introduces mPOS dongle for mobile wallet transactions

Ingenico has released an audio jack-based point-of-sale dongle that can accept payments made by mobile phone.

The drably-titled RP170c offers support for both NFC/contactless and mag-stripe payments via a 3.5mm standard audio jack that can be plugged into any iOS or Android device.

The kit comes with an audible buzzer and color LEDs to signal completed contactless transaction and a software developer kit for integration with other mobile applications.

Ingenico claims the dongle is the first of its kind to offer mobile-to-mobile transactions from the likes of Apple Pay, Google Wallet and Visa payWave, alongside common-or-garden card tapping and swiping.

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A Finextra member 02 March, 2015, 15:15

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Interesting concept. I'm not sure how inspired consumers or businesses will feel having contactless card details being broadcast from a phone on purpose to another phone. Its a tough sell security wise if nothing else...let alone where is the value add for a business and or a consumer?

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A Finextra member 02 March, 2015, 17:29

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Does this introduce any new security concerns? Or is it just a case of combining existing concerns around NFC and around mPOS?

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A Finextra member 02 March, 2015, 19:57

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Is it missing capability for chip cards?

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A Finextra member 02 March, 2015, 22:11

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Not exactly a discrete dongle! But it does have contactless capability, which means any transaction above the Issuer nominated threshold and then you'd enter a PIN.

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A Finextra member 03 March, 2015, 06:39

0 likes With regards to Matt Collins' question about if this solution adds security issues the answer is probably no. There are a few existing already and that has to do with mobile devices and mobile apps. With the rise of mobile malware and mobile hacker tools one should expect app providers to protect their apps, but very few are capable of doing it.