Merchant

Our industry should work toward making cash easy to use in a digital environment with digital financial services at point of sale, gradually winning over cash users to our shared all-digital payment cause.

Congress should get behind the Fed's effort to launch a real-time payments service instead of getting in its way.

In an international expansion move, AI-powered grocery cart startup Caper has begun a pilot with one of Canada’s largest grocery chains, Sobeys, at a suburban Toronto location.

As e-commerce becomes international, American merchants should embrace alternative payment methods in other countries, says PPRO U.S.'s Steve Villegas.

Retail technology provider Standard Cognition is putting its quick-rising valuation to work to stockpile tools as the checkout-free market enters a more competitive phase.

Mastercard plans to acquire loyalty and marketing company SessionM to help its merchant clients build their brands and grow their businesses.

Payments innovation is happening in small businesses like Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant, which has to manage a shift in how people shop, order, pay and communicate — all at the same time.

While doing the bare minimum means that companies avoid receiving hefty non-compliance fines, it doesn’t achieve a great deal more, says FIME's Arnaud Crouzet.

The credit card lender responded to the closing of Toys R Us stores last year by issuing Synchrony-branded cards to the retailer's customers. Now it's testing a general-purpose card with a wider array of clients.

Goodbox has raised £1 million (about $1.3 million) in capital, mostly from individual investors using the crowdfunding platform Seedrs following a 2017 investment from tennis star Andy Murray.