Point-of-sale

There is an expectation that customers should change and adapt their particular payment habits to match what the retailer has on offer, according to Matthijs Pronk, CCO of Intrapay.

Square Inc. is offering loans to customers to pay for goods and services from merchants that use its payments platform, another move by the company to push deeper into financial services.

Consumers who own multiple cards often use them as budgeting tools — a credit card for entertainment, a prepaid card for groceries, etc. — but that method typically can't be applied to any purchases that are paid in installments.

It seems that every year, at least since Apple Pay launched in 2014, it’s the “year of the mobile wallet.” And each year, like clockwork, the banks end up disappointed in the lack of traction in mobile wallet usage and adoption.

Stripe’s software development kit, application programming interfaces and other recently added features for merchants place it in almost all parts of the payment value chain beyond its e-commerce forte.

Offereins led to Discover's payments business to another year of strong growth while setting in motion a bold plan to disrupt the point-of-sale experience.

Before Hurricane Florence hit the U.S. this month, certain merchants prepared by stocking up on an unlikely item in the digital payments era: 1970’s-era carbon paper credit slips.

Once personal and financial information is accessible to criminals, it feeds the pipeline of future cybercrime for years to come, writes Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success for NuData Security.

Divido, a London-based retail finance marketplace platform provider, has raised $15 million in a Series A capital round that includes American Express and Mastercard as investors.

Stripe is making a Stripe Terminal available to its e-commerce clients, looking to unify online and physical point of sale payment streams.