POS and Retail

EMV is far from being a new technology. In fact, European countries have been using EMV chip-enabled credit cards and processing terminals for nearly 30 years.

The glacial pace at which card providers and merchants are adding EMV chips to their cards and payments systems benefits no one, and opens new possibilities for card fraud.

Square Inc., the payments startup led by Jack Dorsey, released a 38-minute marketing video in advance of its planned initial public offering.

Over the last several months much has been made about the New York BitLicense.

Electronic payments company PAX Technology has become the main supplier of point of sale terminals for Russia's Sberbank.

Electronic payments technology provider Verifone has entered into an agreement to buy Payment as a Service provider InterCard AG.

Mobile payments is the next “big thing” for consumers. But how can we keep it from becoming so for hackers as well?

Square Inc. is aiming for a valuation of as much as $4.2 billion in its initial public offering, well short of the $6 billion the mobile-payments service sought in its latest funding round.

With Visa Inc. set to merge with Visa Europe, the U.S. company stands to benefit from the experience its London-based counterpart has in mobile and digital payments. It could also supercharge these projects with added resources.

The rollout of EMV is accompanied by increased card not present fraud, but banks can reduce losses using voice biometrics in the call center.

Point-of-sale payment provider payworks has released a white-label software development kit (SDK) that outside parties can use to develop mobile point of sale services.

Unlike Rite Aid and CVS pharmacies, which cut off contactless Near Field Communication (NFC) payments when Apple Pay launched in October of 2014, Walgreens never bucked the Apple Pay trend and did not take long to start accepting transactions from Apple's mobile pay service.

Bitcoin may have had the most successful marketing campaign of any web technology in recent years. But now there’s a new buzzword making waves throughout the financial industry: “distributed ledger.”

Payments technology provider linked2pay has added remote deposit check capture to is Bank Centric Payments platform for resellers and independent sales organizations.

As we’ve seen with recent high profile data breaches, the threat of cyber-attacks has accelerated in the last 18 months and shows little sign of abating.

Airbnb is integrating with American Express to enable cardholders to sign up for the short-term rental platform and using its services.

MasterCard has named Craig Vosburg president of North America markets.

Nearly two-thirds of small businesses create a formal plan for growth. But ISOs aren't always privy to the details.

Digital wallets present a classic chicken-and-egg problem.

The EMV deadline has come and gone, and customers and retailers alike are realizing that they need to understand and adapt to the new payment reality both online and offline.