Merchant

The video-game industry is amping up its defenses after hackers penetrated numerous payments systems last year.

Identity security and mobile payments are driving merger-and-acquisition activity in the payments industry as large companies strive to keep up with each other and the latest technology.

As preparations unfold for the U.S. payment system to convert to smart cards, merchants across the country would prefer to see a clearer process established to reach that goal.

To skeptics, fraud dangers lurk around every corner in the online shopping world.

The overall success of the small to mid-sized business (SMB) market remains pivotal to the full economic recovery.

All of Russia's Auchan hypermarkets will deploy Ingenico payment terminals by the end of 2012, the global payment technology vendor announced Jan. 24.

Increased consumer spending on credit cards in North America and Europe was enough to have executives from Total System Services Inc. singing the praises of solid fourth-quarter earnings and, for the time being, soft-pedaling the potential future loss of Green Dot Corp.’s processing business.

Bank of America Corp. is working with Cardlytics Inc. to test an online rewards system called BankAmeriDeals.

Client-transaction volume increases fueled card processing revenue, resulting in a 7.3% increase in fourth quarter revenue for Total Systems Services Inc., or TSYS, the company announced Jan. 24.

If the competition for providing payments hardware and software were akin to a boxing match, NCR Corp. just came out swinging in an attempt to keep smaller contenders on the ropes.