Merchant

The two-year old APASS has helped Alibaba persuade wealthier consumers to up their spending at Tmall and Taobao shopping emporiums.

Behavioral biometrics has already stopped several million dollars worth of online banking fraud at National Westminster Bank in London.

By collaborating with consumers' favorite products or retailers, loyalty programs can get an extra punch.

Major wholesalers at Delhi’s largest fruit and vegetable market, which serves most of the capital’s nearly 17 million people, are planning to sell their products at bargain prices in order to move perishable stock as the impact of India’s cash shortages continues to bite.

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.