POS and Retail

Intuit, which works with numerous small-business owners through its QuickBooks software and other products, is learning that convincing merchants to adopt EMV technology will require more than just educating them on the technology and the consequences of missing the card networks' October deadline.

One of the iconic images to come out of Google's Android Pay presentation last week is its app loaded with one American Express card — and three retailer loyalty cards.

Retail chain Sally Beauty knows that it was sick and when. Now the challenge is to figure out what made it sick.

EVO Payments is set to purchase Deutsche Postbank’s merchant acquiring business, P.O.S. Transact.

Android Pay is far more than a rebranding of Google Wallet. It's a reboot of Google's approach to mobile payments, picking the best of Google Wallet and Apple Pay while shedding the ideas that distract from each product's core focus.

As the deadline nears for U.S. EMV adoption, more processors are partnering up to help their clients speed through the certification process.

British online payments company Optimal Payments has acquired Canadian mobile platform developer FANS Entertainment for about $13 million.

Nacha's push for faster payments is largely positive, but banks still stand to lose position in the business to business payments market.

The use of e-commerce payments technology as a portal to other business services is advancing rapidly, requiring point of sale companies to constantly add new tools that merchants and developers can use to add muscle to transaction venues.

U.S. acquirers are looking to expand their business in emerging markets, where small merchants are starting to enter the commercial framework.

Visa and MasterCard's support for host card emulation (HCE) is a boost for mobile pay, though there are still security concerns.

The changes happening in digital payments today are being driven by fintech innovators improving almost every way that people and businesses exchange and manage their money.

If there was any question about the need for Congress to modernize our nation’s data-security laws, the recent settlement negotiation between Target and MasterCard should put all doubts to rest.

PayPal's plan to expand its OneTouch instant checkout service has shifted into high gear via an update that will support all merchants using the e-commerce platform Bigcommerce.

A year after initialing establishing a presence in Australia with its mobile card reader, Square Inc. says it will open its fourth "global hub" in Melbourne to expand uptake of its Register tablet-based point of sale system.

Mobile wallets and digital currencies are providing an increasingly viable alternative to traditional card payments, prompting Visa Inc. to present a new value proposition to merchants.

While young consumers do not have a past with legacy payments methods and are most open to new innovation, most new payment systems are not adequately focused on the youth market.

WePay has pushed its tools for international e-commerce payments primarily to U.S.-based companies, and the vendor is now looking to extend its reach abroad through a fresh infusion of funds.

American Express estimates that about 750,000 merchants do business in Canada, and the card brand is relying on its successful OptBlue program to attract as many of them as possible.

In the payments industry, it can often seem like there is a new innovation every hour of every day.