Payment processing

It's a multibillion-dollar industry in a state of payments-regulation limbo and as a result, the U.S. cannabis business has mainly operated on a cash basis.

Digital consumers and merchants are born as well as made. Payments play a key role in driving simpler, smarter and more customized experiences, writes Stefan Merz, COO of PPRO.

London-based processor Checkout.com’s recent $230 million Series A investment is an indicator of investors’ huge interest in cross-border e-commerce and payments in emerging markets.

Facebook and Google were scammed out of more than $100 million, though artificial intelligence can help firms improve security, according to Anant Kale, founder and CEO of AppZen.

Paysafe has recruited TSYS exec Philip McHugh as its new CEO, a few days after news broke of the TSYS-Global Payments merger.

Payment network tokenization should sound appealing to every online retailer because it relieves friction and releases them from much of their risk, liability and compliance burden. The trick is achieving scale from both a technical and business agreement perspective, writes Ammar Faheem, vice president of digital payment solutions for North America at Gemalto, a Thales company.

Banks and governments around the world have invested in systems that seek to instantly transfer money between accounts, moves that could put pressure on the sprawling debit card business at the world’s largest payments network. But Visa Inc. Chief Executive Al Kelly isn’t too worried.

ChargeAfter, a startup that matches retail customers with financing options at the point of sale from various lenders, has raised $8 million in its first major funding round.

Elavon is partnering with online store software company ePages to meld online and in-store technology for small to mid-size retailers in the U.K. and Ireland with other markets to follow.

Many kiosk manufacturers focus on cost and manufacturing efficiencies, placing little to no emphasis on experience architecture — where the physical meets the digital in design and engagement, writes Scott Reese, chief technology officer at Harbor Retail.