POS and Retail

Ahead of the busiest shopping period of the year, CaixaBank is embracing facial recognition retail payments, an option that has met with pushback elsewhere.

Coinbase Card has expanded its cryptocurrency exchange payment cards into 10 new countries and added five new crypto assets that users can spend.

Visa and Mastercard are once again in the crosshairs of U.S. antitrust regulators over policies that can prohibit merchants from routing card transactions over alternative debit networks.

Adyen has traditionally focused on streamlining card acceptance, processing and settlement for online payments, and now it wants control more of the merchant relationship by enabling merchants to issue virtual and physical payment cards.

Multichannel payment technology provider Ingenico Group is partnering with Singapore fintech Pundi X to deliver a point-of-sale terminal that can accept crypto payments.

If measuring PCI-DSS compliance was like tracking an athletic team's progress, one could say it was in a bad slump.

Alibaba's Singles Day e-commerce marketing event set another record, suggesting Asia's giant digital payments market shows no signs of slowing down.

The challenge is to digitize digital currency rewards in such a way where a retailer could issue its own token, and that token could be used at a multitude of retailers, says cryptocurrency lawyer Felix Shipkevich.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will spend $3.3 billion to raise its stake in Cainiao, in an effort to exert more control over the logistics subsidiary that underpins its sprawling e-commerce empire.

If the Fed's new service doesn't effectively prevent existing types of fraud, we might even see fraud increase thanks to the instant payments concept, says Chargeback 911's Monica Eaton-Cardone.