Merchant

Merchants are still slow to adopt mobile point of sale systems. But improvements in usability and longer battery life can turn that around.

As a payments industry professional, Reetika Grewal took the situation in stride, but her experience using mobile wallets and EMV exemplifies an issue many consumers are facing.

Banking and payments technology provider linked2pay has added the real-time payments platform from Push Payments to its services for bank clients.

The U.S.’s long journey to EMV adoption will remain a major focus for the U.S. Payments Forum, but contactless and mobile payments technology will also start to get serious attention from a new industry working group.

The Clearing House, which is co-owned by the nation’s largest banks, has asked the Justice Department to conduct an antitrust review of its next-generation payments network. A thumbs-up from antitrust officials could prove useful in convincing smaller banks to join the effort.

Samsung Pay has launched a rewards program for U.S. consumers that allows them to earn points on both credit and debit card purchases — and has an emphasis on encouraging repeated use.

Evidence exists that in most markets in which public regulators oversaw EMV implementations, the results were much better for merchants and consumers.

Consumers visiting sites using WP Engine’s checkout technology will use Chrome to obtain payment and shipping details with a few taps.

Citi's bank-branded mobile wallet will have the head start of the institution's vast scale.

The move is designed to help publishing companies improve coupon and payments performance.