Merchant

Led by Starbucks and Apple's mobile payment apps, there's a boom underway and retailers need to act fast to avoid being left behind.

Mastercard has expanded its relationship with Pizza Hut to support mobile ordering in Japan.

Real-time payment processing is drawing more attention to tangible use cases, such as helping workers pay bills that are due before they receive their salary.

Square has long been considered at the vanguard of digital payment innovation, so it may be a little unexpected to see the company take a step backward into physical card issuance.

Retailers should focus on creating a premium experience for a broad range of customers, writes Tom Caporaso, CEO of Clarus Commerce.

Mobile commerce must support larger and more complex shopping categories to take the next step, and some companies are looking to enable this through alternative financing.

Global payments technology provider ScanSource has agreed to purchase POS Portal, a payment device supplier to the small-business market, for $145 million.

After two years of getting its footing in the U.S. and South American markets, Poynt is ready to expand into Europe.

The online small-business lender has also announced the hiring of a new U.S. head of capital markets.

More e-commerce and multi-channel merchants are accepting payments from mobile devices, even though they haven't addressed all of the security gaps inherent to the technology.