Merchant

Banks don't compete with each other enough to effectively lead the move to faster payments in the U.S., argues CMSPI's Mark Horwedel.

In a bid to keep pace with coffee arch-rival Starbucks’ delivery and mobile order-ahead services, Dunkin’ is working with Grubhub to roll out New York delivery.

Both are useful, but each has specialties in protecting different types of transaction processes, according to Rambus Payments' Andre Stoorvogel.

One of Target's high-profile payment outages this weekend stemmed from a problem at one of NCR's data centers, the big box retailer says.

Wirecard will supply all digital payment POS services for KaDeWe, a dominant department store operator in Wirecard’s home market of Germany, as part of an expanded relationship.

Public-sector development of a speedier settlement service, to operate alongside the one being developed by The Clearing House, is crucial for seeing that institutions of all sizes are able to take advantage of this technology.

Target in the past 48 hours suffered a pair of unrelated point of sale outages that had at least one thing in common — they resulted in consumers scrambling for a contingency that would have been little problem as recently as four or five years ago.

The fraud challenge faced by issuers and merchants alike has become increasingly complex over the last few years with the prevalence of e-commerce and cross-border payments. Visa's response to these trends has benefited heavily from the global scale it got by reabsorbing Visa Europe in 2016.

Cashierless stores have generated a lot of attention, but there’s a heavy lift to ensure the concept works outside of the relatively controlled environment of beta tests and proof-of-concept stores.

State and local officials have pushed back against retailers that don’t take cash, and now some are pressuring electric vehicle firms to expand payment options at charging stations.