Point-of-sale

Jennifer Miles will join Ingenico later this year to help the company's North American expansion and mobile point of sale efforts.

Thousands of U.S. merchants are still holding out against EMV because they see no immediate threat from counterfeit card fraud, and business goes on. But a less obvious change in payment card acceptance may finally force them to upgrade.

The scenario where someone uses a check's "float" to purchase something before they have the funds is still more common than many people think, according to the founders of Float, a startup that sends emergency "credit" to a consumer's debit card.

Now that the holiday sales rush is over, merchants are starting to look more closely at game-changing sales models like Amazon Go as models to reinvent their own point of sale.

Now that the second holiday season has passed since the U.S. deadline for EMV migration, acquirers are taking stock of the damages that merchants incurred this year to determine the effect of the new technology.

Taxi hailing and payment technology has been an important part of Verifone's mobile payment strategy, and this new move will fold Way2ride into Curb.

Westpac in has been aggressive in supporting and adopting emerging merchant and payment technology in Australia.

Amazon and other e-commerce disruptors are turning long-held retail models upside down, but in doing so they create a lifeline for retailers who see them as an opportunity rather than a threat.

U.K. supermarket giant Tesco has long supported Apple Pay at its contactless-enabled checkout locations, and now it also supports mobile payments through a proprietary app it’s rolled out to its nearly 7,000 stores.

NCR Corp. has launched its FastLane Mobile Shopper software in the Globus hypermarket chain in Russia, citing it as the first supermarket/department store in Europe to offer the scan-and-go system.