Merchant

Most news regarding contactless-payment technology centers around retail merchants, terminal makers or telecommunication companies as major players.

The CEO of ZooZ admits that he wasn't thinking of the prominent Zeus malware, which targets bank accounts, when he named his payments company. But he was absolutely thinking of security.

Intuit Inc. is looking to deepen entrepreneurs' reliance on its small-business payment services with a new payment-reminder app for mobile phones.

Some of America’s transaction processors may be in for a shock when they begin trying to accept EMV chip cards in the coming months.

Who exactly are the micromerchants Square Inc. and its rivals are going after?

Of the independent sales organizations and agents ready to commit to mobile payments, many are facing information overload and don’t know where to begin. The mobile market is still in its infancy, and everyone from technology companies to processors are flooding it with innovation and ideas that may or may not take hold.

Canada has a head start on the U.S. in adopting contactless payments. And as tap-and-pay technology spreads, the use of cash for routine transactions is on track to decline sharply within five years, a new study contends.

Tokenizing payment information and sending the data to the cloud can solve many issues for companies that accept payments, as long as the companies trust the tokenization provider.

In a scary new mobile-banking fraud scheme, criminals are tricking mobile network operators banks into swapping out the SIM cards in customers' mobile phones and using illegally obtained data to drain a victim's funds from bank accounts.

Acculynk Inc. previously cast its online PIN-debit service overseas, but it has landed what the company considers “a major development in a burgeoning market” in becoming the provider enabling RuPay cardholders in India to initiate online transactions.