Point-of-sale

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.

Costco is testing self-checkout lanes at some of its U.S. stores as part of a push to speed up the brick-and-mortar shopping experience.

NCR Corp. has entered a strategic referral relationship with Performance Food Group Co. (PFG) to promote NCR’s payments services to hundreds of restaurants via the food service operator’s 36 national distribution centers.

Verifone will provide its full-scale payments-as-a-service platform to the Shufersal supermarket chain in Israel, allowing the stores to offer an omnichannel payment experience to customers.

An encrypted website and secure network aren’t very helpful when customers have been unknowingly routed to a criminal’s lookalike site, writes Simon Thorpe, director of product for Authy at Twilio.

The machine is among the more commonly pitched solutions for high-risk merchants that can't normally handle payment cards because banks won’t partner with them. But for dispensaries, they can be a hassle.

The cashless ATM is meant to make it easier for legal dispensaries and other high-risk stores to accept card payments. But for Alden Linn, owner of World of Weed, it became a hassle.

Vantiv, the largest U.S. merchant acquirer, agreed to buy the e-commerce payments company Worldpay Group for about £8 billion ($10.4 billion).

Germany-based Payworks is the latest to partner with Ant Financial’s Alipay as it works to expand the base of merchants capable of accepting the popular Chinese online and mobile payments app in Europe.

Global Payments hasn't hesitated to shell out huge dollars if it provides a quick-strike opportunity to pair technology with multichannel payments in markets where such marriages remain rare.

Cyberattacks are on the rise, but that doesn't mean becoming a victim is inevitable. The right preventative measures and best practices can help secure digital assets and customer data, writes Robert Fifield, co-founder of Payably.

As an industry, payment system providers and other IoT systems makers in all stripes and colors need to shift the paradigm and build in tamper-proof security based on their original configuration, writes Assaf Harel, CTO of Karamba Security.

Ingenico's $1.7 billion deal to buy Sweden's Bambora will reduce the company's reliance on brick and mortar retail while arming it for battle in the highly competitive market for digital commerce and payments.

Ingenico is using acquisitions to build scale and respond to the growth of new technology in the payment services industry.

Advanced operating systems can run marketing and support services such as Apple Pay. Merchants would be well served to consider the diverse options of new terminals, writes Ben Wagner, director of solutions at Ingenico Group, North America.

Long wait times and improved marketing are a couple of reasons retailers should consider their own apps, writes André Stoorvoge, director of product marketing for payments at Rambus.

Global payments technology provider ScanSource has agreed to purchase POS Portal, a payment device supplier to the small-business market, for $145 million.

After two years of getting its footing in the U.S. and South American markets, Poynt is ready to expand into Europe.