Merchant

ID attacks have expanded quickly in the past year, partly due to the same kind of automation that companies use to manage a high volume of transactions.

After its work with GPShopper produced favorable results the past two years, Synchrony Financial aims to dig deeper into mobile commerce by acquiring its partner.

On Dec. 31, 2016. Dollars in thousands, except for average loan amount

U.S. bank regulators have tentatively agreed to ease an appraisal requirement that could help commercial real estate borrowers, said people familiar with talks among the agencies.

Flipkart Online Services Pvt has completed a $1 billion fundraising and aims to raise as much as $1 billion more over the next few months, according to people familiar with the matter, giving India’s largest e-commerce company capital to battle back against rising competition.

Cleveland-based Select Restaurants Inc., a national chain of upscale restaurants and bars, has experienced a breach exposing customers’ payment card data through point of sale technology, according to data security expert Brian Krebs.

The Plenti loyalty program unfolded two years ago with a new twist on plastic card-based rewards—a multi-merchant coalition in which participants were given exclusivity within their market and consumers could earn points at one retailer and redeem them at another.

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The introduction of EMV is supposed to help reduce instances of fraud. But when a merchant has trouble operating its terminal, unscrupulous customers can take advantage.

Revel Systems is about to expand a program it’s created at several U.S. airports enabling shops and restaurants to seamlessly integrate business travelers’ checkouts with a mobile app from Expensify, a top corporate travel expense-reporting software provider.