Payments

Consumers enrolled in Denmark’s Dankort domestic payments scheme may sign up to make payments using only their finger in a pilot that the payments firm Nets is conducting in Copenhagen.

Its is one of a number of companies that argue that taking the side of consumers can be a viable business plan.

Amazon.com Inc. has partnered with General Motors Co. and Volvo Cars to deliver packages to car trunks in 37 U.S. cities, as the e-commerce giant seeks new delivery methods for customers who may be wary of leaving packages outside or allowing couriers into their homes.

There are lots of layers technology risk-mitigation features, and in addition, network-level mitigation is provided as well, writes Robb Gaynor, chief product officer at Malauzai.

Bluestone Lane, an Australian-style café and coffee shop chain in the U.S., has been well-served by its move to cashless payments in October 2016. But even the most well-planned transition can encounter problems if customers aren't expecting it.

The partnership PayPal announced last year with Samsung Pay has come to fruition, with PayPal rolling out a new capability enabling its users to make purchases at any store that accepts cards via Samsung Pay.

The bank faces June 15 AML compliance deadline; the features that make Zelle popular with customers entice thieves.

IoT and omnichannel require fast informed data-driven decisions for merchants, a challenge Mastercard hopes to address with predictive analytics, driving more transactions and fee income.

The $219 million deal will expand RealPage's geographic and digital footprint in a market that still relies on paper-based payments.

Walmart has also used Sam's Club's Scan & Go fast checkout feature and even robots in an attempt to shorten queues and improve the payment experience.

The increase has bought the gains over the two-week period to almost 29%.

Apple has made moves to acknowledge Alipay's dominance in the market, such as partnering with Alibaba Financial affiliate Alibaba to accept Alipay payments in China's Apple stores.

As marijuana legalization spreads throughout the U.S. and the world, companies in the cannabis market must navigate a delicate tangle of new and old regulations. And many payment providers are unwilling to risk working with dispensaries, leading to some inventive workarounds.

The news of the data breach cast a shadow over relatively strong first-quarter earnings for the Atlanta bank.

PCI compliance can't solve all security problems. EMV, encryption are all necessary to protect merchants from data breaches, writes Jeff Zimmerman, COO of Clearent.

It's too soon to tell whether a new button would replace Visa Checkout and Masterpass as brands. It's also unclear why consumers would choose another new payment option over the many options available today — such as PayPal.

Consumers around the world are increasingly accessing banking solely through digital means, according to new global studies by Oracle and the World Bank.

Mobile payments provider iZettle is adding an e-commerce platform that will expand merchants' capabilities to accept payments in-store and online.

Major card brands have been competing to surpass each other with rewards and premium card offerings for decades, but American Express still views the premium card world as one it dominates.

This update will be an immense help to the broader payments industry in the ongoing adoption of cloud computing by organizations subject to PCI compliance obligations, writes Dan Stocker, practice director of commercial services for cloud and technology at Coalfire.