Technology

Momentum is building for debit EMV as the Shazam Network and Visa Inc. announced an agreement today to enable issuers to use Visa's common debit application identifier (AID) for Visa- and Shazam-branded cards and transactions.

Optimal Payments and Caesars Interactive Entertainment have expanded their partnership for online gaming payment processing.

Payment technology provider Merchant Warehouse has agreed to market services from the hospitality mobile payments vendor TabbedOut.

SCVNGR's LevelUp is reducing its mobile wallet's transaction fee from 2% to 1.95% in its continued attempt to shave interchange costs.

Fitness4Less plans to cut its costs for handling payments by 80% by switching from a third-party payment processor to a system it controls in-house through an application programming interface (API) from Fundtech.

Winning in the mobile world means driving revenues, acquiring new customers, and accelerating transactions. Mobile capture apps need open platforms and frameworks for apps that can be optimized for multiple uses and customized for their organization’s documents, customers, user experience and requirements.

CO-OP Financial Services has entered into an agreement with Visa to make the Visa EMV common debit solution available to its credit union clients.

The restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings will use the NCR Aloha Online Ordering system in its 1,000 company-owned and franchised locations in an effort to improve its takeout ordering business.

Ten years from now, members of the acquiring industry may have fond recollections of the nation's transition to mobile payments, says Brian Mooney, CEO of Bank of America Merchant Services.

Bitcoin companies are looking to win business from large corporations by offering more of the security features that traditional payments providers have long used.