Point-of-sale

Revel Systems has entered into a non-equity strategic partnership with global payment processor Worldpay to create and deliver a more comprehensive set of payment solutions for Revel customers.

Visa is working with handbag designer Rebecca Minkoff to debut a global program to fuel networking among women business owners, while also connecting them to companies in the Visa ecosystem such as Square and Yelp.

The U.S. online lender provides credit lines of up to $150,000 to small businesses that shop at Alibaba.com.

Terminal manufacturer and payments technology provider Ingenico Group has completed its acquisition of New Zealand-based payments network Paymark.

TSYS is responding to growing demand for a lighter and more versatile point of sale with a line of payment tools answering many of the newer merchant needs Square, Clover and Poynt typically provide.

Global Payout is providing software to the makers of point of sale hardware for the cannabis industry, integrating payment card processing with other business services common for dispensaries.

As consumers continue to migrate to banking apps, it may be tempting for banks to focus solely on improving that channel experience. But doing so would be making the same mistake as focusing only on cards or cash at the point of sale.

Despite years of advancements in mobile and online payments, the physical point of sale remains still ripe for disruption.

The year saw anxiety over how banks would respond to record consumer debt, disruptive glitches at TD Bank and SunTrust, ongoing scandal at Wells Fargo, and much, much more.

Hostilities toward the legal U.S. cannabis industry are softening considerably, with signs of further removing cash and digital workarounds from a market that has long been shunned by traditional payment cards.