Point-of-sale

The collaboration gives Worldpay another e-commerce tool to battle Amazon's encroachment into traditional retail.

Innovative companies are working on ways to instantaneously convert cryptocurrency into the currency accepted by the merchant, writes Vladimir Gorbunov, COO and co-founder of Crypterium.

Tablet point of sale solutions provide mobile pay benefits while helping merchants provide new experiences for their customers, create additional touchpoints, and accept all forms of electronic payment, including magstripe, EMV and NFC/contactless writes Ben Wagner, director of solutions at Ingenico Group, North America.

Giving merchants direct access to third-party software isn’t new—First Data’s Clover unit introduced the concept three years ago—but Vantiv is giving its approach a custom-development spin with an app marketplace.

UL Transaction Security has teamed up with Zurich-based payment software engineering firm Abrantix to create a robot to automate the typically tedious, manual process of payment terminal testing.

It has now been two years since the EMV fraud liability shift took effect in the U.S. for most companies. This is enough time to evaluate the EMV migration's effect on fraud, and whether it can be blamed for anything happening in digital channels.

In an enclosed campus like a college or hospital, people are eager to simply pay for their food and get back to their business. But streamlining the payment process isn't always easy.

It has taken nearly two years since the EMV liability shift in the U.S., but restaurants are adapting to new point-of-sale technology that includes EMV and mobile capabilities.

Diminished returns from basic card breaches will turn crooks' attention to much larger and more dangerous attacks on entire payment systems, writes John Christly, global chief information security officer for Netsurion.

Snap Finance provides credit at the point of sale, primarily to consumers with bad credit.