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Wirecard has teamed with wirecube, an Austrian software maker of digital retail checkout technology, to pilot cashierless checkout targeting travelers in Munich’s airport.

Visa typically adjusts its interchange rates every April and October, but this year it is getting an atypically strong response.

Lightspeed POS is combining a new payments platform with its business management tools for small businesses and restaurant merchants in the U.S. and Canada.

Inertia or resistance to change have kept small businesses from making the move to more modern systems, says Clover's Mark Schulze.

As the incumbents gets bigger, the innovation that created the urgency continues unabated.

The acquisition of Ingenico by Worldline will create the world’s fourth largest payments company and a juggernaut in merchant services.

Transit systems have become an outlet for new payment technology for both challenger fintechs and incumbents, with terminal maker Ingenico targeting North America for open loop transit payments in the next year.

Florida startup GRUBBRR, whose software enables restaurants to add touchscreen ordering and payment, has teamed with payment platform provider FreedomPay to speed the rollout of its services.

Mastercard will financially back Indian merchant commerce platform Pine Labs' embrace of multi-channel installment financing as a payment option in addition to cards.

Biometrics technology provider PopID has developed a business philosophy that tests the consumers' comfort level with facial recognition in a more casual setting.