Swiff participates in AITEC Banking & Mobile Money West Africa symposium

May 28, 2012

Swiff's new Mobile Point of Sale technology means adding our plug in card reader to a SmartPhone and you have a low cost but highly secure point of sale device. Low cost POS means many more merchants in Africa can now afford to start accepting card payments. Swiff solutions contribute to lowering the cost of financial services/transactions in the developing world and we are working with Banks and regulators to help grow and expand the numbers of people who will be able to take advantage of the cost savings, speed and convenience of electronic transactions.

Interview: Singapore’s Swiff founder talks mobile payments

May 21, 2012

Etienne Van den Bogaert, chief technology officer of SCCP Payment Services and one of the founders of Swiff, a homegrown mobile payment platform, talks about trends and challenges of mobile payments in the Asia Pacific as well as Swiff's business model. More...

Swiff takes on Square et al in credit card dongle space

March 26, 2012

Well, it's going a bit bananas in the old dongle market. In the US, Square, Intuit and now PayPal are leading the charge to get retailers to plug their dongles into an iPhone or iPad so they can take payments without needing the usual credit card reader apparatus. More...

Swiff targets banks with its mobile payments solution

March 26, 2012

In the future, asked to pick a year when mobile payments really started to take off, chances are people will point back to 2012. Square has been ramping up considerably, with the introduction of its Register product, and the “Pay With Square” initiative it unveiled today. This also marks the year PayPal decided to leverage its significant standing in online payments with a mobile-focused product called PayPal Here. But Singapore-based Swiff, another recent mobile payments player, still thinks there’s plenty of room to succeed, and is teaming up with the institutions that already handle people’s finances to stage an end-around maneuver against its flashier, merchant-focused competition More...