Yello has announced a new partnership with Alcinéo in order to bring their integrated, first of its kind, customer experience and payments platform, YelloPad, to market sooner.

The YelloPad product seeks to change the way payment terminals around the world work. Yello designed the platform to benefit a wide range of industries including retail, hospitality, healthcare and loyalty.

Alcinéo, who specialise in the development of embedded software, implementing smart card technologies and security, to power the YelloPad platform with Alcinéo kernels and to collaborate on the EMV (EuroCard, Mastercard and Visa) certification process.

Customer deliveries of the Alcinéo-powered YelloPad are expected to start from mid-2017.

Mike Ausems, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Yello, says: “The YelloPad was developed as the perfect customer experience platform for customers in all face-to-face environments: mobile, fixed, indoors and outdoors. We decided to work with Alcinéo to speed up the development and guarantee fast, reliable and secure EMV transactions.”

Daniel Maurice-Vallerey, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Yello, adds: “We decided to focus on the design of the YelloPad and the creation of the eco-system that makes it possible to deliver a rich world of opportunities to our customers and we trusted Alcinéo as a result of their unique track record in the EMV field”

Arnaud Corria, Alcinéo President, says: “We are very happy to collaborate with Yello and support the launch of their next generation payment platform that will make it easier to deliver a very rich checkout and payment experience. Thanks to our high levels of expertise, we contribute to Yello’s success in meeting the challenges associated with the design and delivery of this EMV and PCI PTS customer experience platform, the YelloPad.”