POS and Retail

It's a precarious time for security at gas stations, many of which are taking advantage of the two-year grace period they received for EMV card acceptance when the rest of the bank and retail world faced a 2015 deadline.

It is rumored that the word ‘fintech’ was first used by the Sunday Times in 1985. That case is almost certainly an outlier but since 2013, ‘fintech’ has been hard to escape.

Walmart has entered the mobile payments industry, announcing in December that it was introducing Walmart Pay, an upgrade to Walmart’s existing app that will allow in-store shoppers to pay with their smartphones at checkout.

Payment security services provider EchoSat has purchased SmartLink, a division of Heartland Payment Systems.

As consumers approach the new year, they will be inundated with articles to help them with New Year’s resolutions.

Payments technology provider Elavon says it is among the first payment processing companies to offer Apple Pay to Canadian businesses.

From fairly humble beginnings three years ago with the low-fee Bluebird prepaid Amex card and the Serve platform, Walmart has gotten more and more aggressive — and welcoming — with payments innovation.

Near Field Communication has been the burr in the saddle of emerging payments technology these past five years.

Glacier Restaurants, having examined the wide array of choices to tap mobile technology, has concluded that the best entry-level mobile transaction is the digital gift card.

When it comes to online commerce, the point at which money changes hands has often been the moment a sale falls apart.

Holiday shopping doesn’t stop after December 25. It goes beyond that as many consumers buy goods post-holiday as well, boosting sales even more.

Since the dawn of the modern mobile payments era, Starbucks has positioned itself as the poster child for how the technology can resonate with customers. And it's not about to rest on its laurels.

The holiday shopping season may be over, but that doesn’t mean that consumers will stop using their credit or debit cards in 2016.

It's hard to come by hard data on consumers actually using mobile wallets to pay in stores, but these consumers do exist.

Moscow-based startup Cardberry is planning to launch an app and device to streamline discount and loyalty cards.

New technologies are allowing us to reimagine the entire customer payment experience.

A late surge in shopping and pent-up demand for women's clothing gave a boost to holiday sales, according to early spending figures.

Despite increased investment and development in the consumer payments space around mag stripe, EMV and contactless payments solutions, there is still a huge concern when it comes to data theft.

The concept of a multi-merchant rewards program appeals to cardholders, but the widely advertised Plenti program managed through American Express has not yet reached its potential, according to new data from Auriemma Consulting Group.

So, here we are, living in the “future”…many of us now finally have chip cards; the G20 nations are all in the post “liability-shift” world; we’re all expecting to be living in the new paradigm.