Merchant

Mall landlords accustomed to offering rent reductions to ailing retailers are mulling a new strategy to forestall the industry's collapse: positioning themselves as lenders to tenants struggling to stay afloat.

The card company is buying the corporate-services businesses of Danish payments provider Nets A/S; the online lender’s stock plunged after it missed second quarter earnings expectations.

As technology advances, new terms are existing with older vocabulary, causing potential confusion that challenges user experience, says NvoicePay's Alyssa Callahan.

Krista Morgan, the founder and CEO of P2Binvestor, discusses her firm's bank deals and the tech driving its platform.

As Apple Card’s public test begins this week with a limited number of consumers, details are emerging about how the tech giant is differentiating its product from other cards.

In a bid to help small businesses whose transaction volumes don’t warrant acquiring a dedicated POS terminal, National Australia Bank is partnering with Visa and Quest Payment Systems to pilot a tap-on-phone solution that provides secure contactless card acceptance using the business owner’s smartphone.

Klarna raised another $460 million in fresh equity funding, pushing the Swedish company’s valuation to about $5.5 billion.

Managing compliance and breach risk make it harder to offer a good customer experience, but the cost of friction may be even higher, argues Bob Janacek, CEO of DataMotion.

Many businesses are not doing enough to protect their client sensitive PII information. They do not realize that internet and cloud services are not bullet-proof, says Pravin Kothari, founder and CEO of CipherCloud.

Investors are making bets on checkout-free retail, a category that is just as challenging as it is innovative. But it's payment technology's race to the moon, a chance to seize a favorable position in the struggle to save retail.