POS and Retail

It’s vital to work with a payment processor that fully discloses its pricing approach on its merchant statements, writes Jeff Zimmerman, COO of Clearent.

Fintrax provides multi-currency digital payment processing for international shoppers, and will add Planet Payment's base of clients in nearly two dozen countries.

Since e-commerce and digital payments' inception, the state of the retail industry has been fluid, always facing new challenges and battles, writes Erik Morton, vice president of strategy and corporate development at CommerceHub.

Automated business payments is key to rightsizing inventory purchases, writes Matt Clark, COO of Corcentric.

The industry has the opportunity to expedite gains in interoperability and realize significant cost savings and productivity gains for both the clinical and administrative sides of the industry, writes Chris Seib, chief technology officer and cofounder of InstaMed.

It's been nearly six years in the making, but TableSafe has the EMV certification it has long needed to make its pay-at-the-table Rail platform a future-proof option for restaurants.

If you’re an omnichannel merchant, it’s critical to analyze fraud separately across your brick and mortar, online and mobile channels, in order to focus your information security resources where they are most needed, writes Michael Lynch, chief strategy officer for InAuth.

It is often difficult to imagine how something will disrupt an industry because it may seem that the industry is already functioning with no problems. But there are inefficiencies that may not be apparent, writes Mariam Nishanian, a representative for Dentacoin.

For the second time in less than a week, First Data has found an already speeding car to hop on board in the company's strategy to cover as many digital commerce bases as quickly as possible.

The lowest rates could be a sign the provider is not investing in itself, not being entirely transparent, or not providing a wide enough range of services for their clients, writes Drew Sementa, CEO of Tidal Commerce.

KRACK, combined with other attacks, allows for the reading of pain text username, passwords, credit card numbers as well as the injection of code including ransomware, writes Timothy Crosby, senior security consultant for Spohn.

The store-branded credit card issuer reported that more borrowers fell behind on their payments in the third quarter. Still, net earnings were stronger than expected.

The answer is to change the authentication framework altogether with new technologies that employ passive biometrics and behavioral analytics, writes Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success at NuData Security.

The move creates more room for developers to work on new payment types and build additional use cases.

While the advent of the Internet offered the possibility of increased global connectivity, blockchain has the potential to take this advancement to the next level, writes Sergey Ponomarev, the CEO of SONM.

PayPal's latest move has been expanding its Venmo service beyond peer-to-peer payments to a method for paying merchants directly.

The heat will now be on card networks to reassure consumers of card security through other methods, during the ongoing barrage of data breaches that could undermine consumers’ confidence in cards.

Square has been adding myriad services as it seeks to become a full-service merchant gateway.

First Data posts an acquisition release in error, though it may eventually buy the company.

On selected billing dates, Qualpay will automatically charge customers on an assigned plan and provide reports of the transaction activity.