CardFlight, a mobile point-of-sale technology provider, has announced that its suite of mobile products has been certified by TSYS, a leading global payments provider, to accept EMV and contactless transactions.

As part of the announcement, CardFlight's PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant gateway has been certified by TSYS to accept EMV chip card transactions. In addition to TSYS certification, the product has passed a rigorous set of industry approvals per the Visa Acquirer Device Validation Toolkit, the MasterCard Terminal Integration Process, the American Express Integrated Circuit Card Payment Specification, and the Discover Payment Application Specification.

"Mobile is one of the fastest growing segments in payments and EMV is an important new technology for the U.S," said Craig Ludwig, head of product for the TSYS merchant services segment. "We're proud to be working with companies like CardFlight that can bring mobile EMV solutions to TSYS merchants."