POS and Retail

Verifone is hoping to beat the payments disruptors at their own game, introducing a mobile point of sale terminal for quick-service businesses, small retail shops and cafés that integrates payments with other consumer services.

When Starbucks’ new loyalty program rules go into effect this month, it will set the stage for a wave of new payments innovations with intriguing benefits for the coffee giant and its payments processing partner, JPMorgan Chase.

In order for mobile payments to be successful, there has to be a sustained effort to communicate the worth and educate both the consumer and the merchant.

Amazon.com Inc.'s relaunch of its online payments business in 2013 was greeted with skepticism. PayPal Holdings Inc. had a huge head start and credit card companies like Visa Inc. already had products that made buying something on the Web as easy as swiping a card.

More than two-thirds of all U.S.-issued MasterCard consumer credit cards are now chip-enabled and the number of merchants accepting EMV transactions continues to climb, MasterCard said March 31.

The migration to EMV chip cards in the U.S. has hit enough snags that some may wonder if it's better to let someone else smooth things out.

Mobile wallets and related technologies are starting to look very different. Whether they are absorbed into other mobile offerings or removed from the phone altogether, these systems are looking less and less like the old-fashioned billfolds they replace.

In one of its biggest splashes since first making Amazon Dash Button payments available nearly a year ago, the Seattle-based online shopping giant says it has tripled the number of brands that support its WiFi instant ordering system.

First Data Corp. paid Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano $51.6 million in 2015, almost twice what his former boss, JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon, received last year.

The payments pioneer is transforming its merchant cash advance into a business loan, a move that has significant legal and regulatory implications.

I don't normally buy $300 of pizza. But it's not as unusual as my credit card issuer might think, and that's part of the problem for prevailing identity management strategy.

Square Inc. is introducing a new e-commerce tool that lets merchants collect payments on their websites, putting the San Francisco company in more direct competition with online payments leader PayPal Holdings Inc.

In the coming years, biometrics will be the leading security metric to protect payment systems, but a single ultra-hack could derail this progression permanently.

EBay has become a member of the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance, making it the first e-commerce company to achieve FIDO certification.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, two more Americans will have fallen prey to credit card fraud.

Pep Boys' early results suggest there is something to the argument that successful mobile wallets are more about relationship-building and less about payments.

Square wants to ease the anxiety many small merchants may feel around no-shows when they accept online appointments for their businesses.

The capacity for EMV cards to swiftly and drastically reduce payment card fraud in the U.S. is by no means assured.

The U.S. shift to EMV — once considered as viable as the U.S. shift to the metric system — is well underway. Here are some of the latest signs of progress, as well as some of the biggest pain points.

We may have more in common than we let on, there are some things that I think Canadians are doing better than their counterparts, including the U.S. and that includes fraud management.