Technology

A new partnership will bring merchant supplier General Credit Forms’ products to the online marketplace of payments technology provider My Clear Reports.

Independent Sales Organizations stand to make more money if they provide some of the funding for merchant cash advances, and at least a few are borrowing to do it.

Groupon's new payments system is a small step toward a dramatic change in merchant acquiring, one that leaves ownership of consumer data up for grabs.

These days it seems like everyone is a payments company, whether their primary business is selling coffee or coupons. Wherever they come from, they're challenging the very structure of this industry.

The payments industry has taken it upon itself to police any entity that accepts credit or debit cards — even when that entity is the police.

Voltage Security is working with the payment processor Mercury Payment Systems to expand the latter's data encryption while helping its partners and merchants comply with Payment Card Industry data security standards.

In an examination of 3.4 million four-digit passwords, the tech consultancy DataGenetics determined that users choose the PIN "1234" nearly 11% of the time.

Marqeta has launched a consumer rewards prepaid card in hopes of capturing the success of Starbucks' loyalty program and spreading that wealth to other merchants.

More companies are borrowing a page from Apple's playbook and offering a way for store employees to handle customer payments on the floor.

NBS Technologies, a provider of equipment for card personalization, is installing Xpressi Trusted Service Manager for a customer in Europe in early October.