POS and Retail

The company has added six new markets in Europe, where it has already established a beachhead for its e-commerce technology.

As young people mature, their financial and payment needs mature, as does their use of technology and other emerging innovation.

Amazon's $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods will make it a force to be reckoned with in the grocery vertical, but its rivals have been preparing for this day for a long time. Here are some of the biggest competitive threats to Amazon's digital take on food sales.

As the U.S. chip card migration crawls ahead, companies that have not made the switch are at a particularly high risk for fraud.

As self-checkout gains steam, so does the risk for shrink, or intentional underscanning. There are some things retailers can do to mitigate the problem, including appealing to consumers' own morality.

Moves like Amazon Go and the e-commerce giant's acquisition of Whole Foods require banks to abandon their "defensive" innovation posture, write Richard Oglesby and Brad Margol from AZ Payments Group.

When brewery software provider OpHouse strated to grow, it turned to its CEO's connections in the tech incubator community to find a new payments gateway

E-payments are growing fast in China, but a one-size-fits-all approach won't be a winner for merchants, writes Franklin Chu, a managing director at Azoya International.

Theresa Dold joins LevelUp in the new role of vice president of agency strategy to head the company’s focus on restaurant engagement. Dold previously was director of product at sweetgreen, a fast-casual salad chain that last fall stopped accepting cash payments at some of its stores.

Total System Services has extended a multi-year agreement to support Tesco Bank's credit card business in the U.K.

Most small U.S. companies don't have the brand awareness in China to stand out among the millions of goods on Alibaba's websites. Alibaba is the virtual mall that houses the brands, but sellers are in charge of production and distribution with little clarity on the demand for their wares.

Getting a new payment terminal with advanced capabilities is not unlike getting a new phone or computer with its bells and whistles — there's so many new features that some will no doubt go ignored.

Passengers are warming to non-travel mobile payments, and the technology is advancing to enable mobile payments in flight, writes Kristian Gjerding, CEO of CellPoint Mobile.

The $13.7 billion acquisition could have significant implications for swipe-fee revenue and other grocers' in-store branches. It also raises the question of whether the Seattle e-commerce goliath will soon set its sights on the financial services industry.

Until now, Amazon's moves seemed like cautious pokes at the deeply ingrained habit of going to a store and paying with a plastic card. Furthermore, any competitors may have seen Amazon's lacking retail store presence as a buffer that kept them at least temporarily safe from the same fate that befell the bookselling world. How naive they were.

Amazon has been making some aggressive moves in the grocery industry in recent months, but perhaps none so aggressive as its just-announced deal to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.

Younger consumers spend much of their time on messaging platforms, creating a risk for retailers that are not active in the channel.

A deeper dive into the workings of the Amazon Prime Reload program should give the card payments industry serious cause for concern.

Consumers don't want to feel disconnected from retailers in e-commerce, and don't want a complicated checkout experience, writes Jason Fordham, vice president of product at SmarterHQ.

The task at hand for retail app developers is increasingly clear: Make it as easy as possible for consumers to pay through a mobile device.