Merchant

Coles Supermarkets is looking to get customers through its checkout lines faster through acceptance of contactless payments, Australia’s second-largest supermarket chain announced last week.

Accessories manufacturer Brighton Collectibles has equipped sales clerks in more than 150 of its stores nationwide with a VeriFone Systems Inc. mobile point-of-sale system, terminal-maker VeriFone announced Dec. 20.

Revosys Inc. has no illusions about immediately dethroning VeriFone Systems Inc. as the top provider of in-taxi payment systems. But it does believe payment and security upgrades to its in-taxi advertising system could measure up.

Intuit Inc. has officially launched a prepaid card account where even unbanked merchants and individuals may deposit their GoPayment sales, the company announced Dec. 20.

VeriFone Systems Inc. is ready to go live with its first content partner for a system that plays videos on gas-station payment terminal screens: NBCUniversal Inc., the terminal vendor announced Dec. 19.

Eastern Europe gets a bad rap when it comes to payment card data security, but the region does not experience considerably more hacking-attack incidents than do other parts of the world. But it is a main source of such incidents, an industry analyst contends.

To encourage adoption of new security standards in the U.S., the most important tool is policy.

It's that time of the year again. We find ourselves making our lists and checking them twice. As December draws to an end and we look forward to what's coming in 2012, it's time to spread some holiday cheer by sharing what's on the wish list of the nation's more than 150,000 collectors.

VeriFone Systems Inc. has defied the headlines decrying gloom over the European debt crisis by enjoying continued growth in the region while continuing to expand payment-terminal installations rapidly in Latin America.

Someday, such a thing as an alternative payment no longer may exist.