ISO & Agent

Europe's clash over interchange rates is being spun into marketing gold by alternative payment companies like Seamless.

Even if shoppers of Amazon.com's Prime Day event — advertised as better than Black Friday — found more to mock than to buy, the promotion last week marked the acceleration of an "on-demand economy" that other retailers can no longer ignore.

Apple executives didn’t flaunt Apple Pay transaction numbers or Apple Watch sales figures during a July 21 third-quarter earnings call, but they did provide some measure of merchant acceptance of the growing mobile payment system.

As more point of sale terminals include connections to the Internet and customers' mobile devices, payment companies may need to consider themselves in an "Internet of Things" environment — with all of the risks that implies.

The credit union-led CU Wallet is working to attract small-business support by drawing on the local ethos that credit unions have nurtured for years, but it faces a formidable challenge as device makers such as Apple and Samsung bake their own wallets into the hardware.

Payments technology is advancing so quickly on so many fronts that Spindle CEO Bill Clark is changing his requirements for hiring new sales staff.

First Data is looking to sell shares of its stock to address its "indebtedness," the company announced Monday.

NCR has launched a new tablet-based point-of-sale device aimed at minimizing security risks for the merchants that use it.

Independent sales organizations are facing an age-old question that has confronted teenagers for centuries: What are they going to do with their future?

The regulatory landscape has become far more complex for acquirers and independent sales organizations, mainly because federal agencies are showing more interest in the various layers of the payments ecosystem.

With the clock ticking for the Oct. 1 deadline for EMV adoption, acquirers and independent sales organizations have a clear opportunity to become payments consultants.

Great Wolf Resorts will give its customers wristbands that can initiate purchases and access hotel rooms at its chain of theme parks and hotels.

Some rules are black and white, which is why Sift Science has added the ability for clients to integrate automatic rules on top of its machine-learning fraud detection system.

Finding Apple Pay-accepting merchants in the U.K. isn't quite the needle-in-the-haystack proposition that it is in the U.S., but it's still enough of a challenge to raise concerns among Apple's partners during the mobile wallet's launch in the country.

PayItSimple USA is expanding its installment payments technology to the U.K.

Apple Inc. is making the U.K. the first market outside the U.S. for its digital-wallet system as the company fights for a place in the electronic-payments industry.

Discover Financial Services has certified payments testing software provider Acquirer Systems to provide EMV service for its customers in U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Business members of Best Price, which Walmart operates as in India, will have the ability to make payments via M-Pesa’s mobile wallet service.

Verifone has brought on two new executives to head up its Asia Pacific and China regions on the heels of its disappointing results in those markets.

Now the CEO of the mobile point of sale provider ShopKeep, Norm Merritt previously headed the global outsourcing company iQor and brings with him a few ideas about how to make big money by serving small merchants.