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UnionPay qualifies UL test tool for Chinese market

UL says it is is the first provider of acquirer certification test tools to earn UnionPay approval for terminal integration testing within the Chinese market.

January 5, 2016

UL has announced the qualification of its brand test tool by UnionPay for acquirer end-to-end testing of contact and contactless terminals within the Chinese domestic market.

According to a press release, UL is the first provider of acquirer certification test tools to earn UnionPay qualification for terminal integration testing inside China. UL said that its brand test tool also claimed first-certified status for international UnionPay acceptance.

A dedicated module of the test tool simulates UnionPay cards for the certification of contact and contactless terminals based on specifications in the UnionPay Terminal Validation Toolkit Testing Guide.

The test tool eliminates the need to use physical cards that can become corrupted or lost, and provides full insight into the technical details of end-to-end communications involving card, terminal and network. UL is the only test tool vendor to offer fully automated brand testing of payment terminals over all three interfaces — contact, contactless and magnetic stripe — the company said.

“We are proud to receive the qualifications from UnionPay for both the domestic and international market," said Jean-Luc Khaou, managing director for Asia Pacific in the UL transaction security division. "[This] will help acquirers in China to reduce the time to market, ease their device testing, and increase their confidence during the UnionPay implementation."