POS and Retail

With an eye toward making sure more small and medium-size merchants are aware of the need to comply with the Payment Card Industry data security standards, Dallas-based acquirer SignaPay will utilize ControlScan services.

It took three years to build a portfolio of 3,000 merchants at Unified Payments, an independent sales organization based in North Miami Beach, Fla. A year after the ISO started its charitable giving subsidiary, Process Pink Payments, that number reached 5,000. By the end of 2012, it reached 15,000 merchants for Process Pink and more than 100,000 merchants overall.

Heartland Payment Systems and SCVNGR's LevelUp are taking their merchant services and payments bundle, which they earlier tested in a handful of cities, nationwide.

Leaf, a company that offers a payments-specific tablet, is opening to more processors in an effort to lure merchants away from Square and other point of sale acceptance companies.

A pending MasterCard "staged wallet" fee, set to take effect in June, is setting a new tone for the emerging payments landscape.

VeriFone promoted its executive vice president of operations to the role of chief operating officer and appointed three other executives to regional president posts, the point of sale terminal manufacturer announced this week.

Visa Inc. now counts Overstock.com Inc. among the list of retailers accepting its V.me digital wallet.

As VeriFone Systems Inc. seeks new leadership to help it tackle its ongoing challenges, smaller rivals are looking at their own operations to determine which opportunities to seize in the payments hardware market.

Genesco's $13 million lawsuit against Visa Inc., filed last week in a Tennessee court, has a similar ring to it as a countersuit Cisero's Ristorante and Nightclub in Park City, Utah filed last year against its acquiring bank and processor.

In the low-margin farming industry, companies are particularly sensitive to credit card transaction fees or the time it takes for checks to clear. Dwolla has started targeting these industries with its alternative payment service.

Tranzlogic LLC is targeting independent sales organizations to scale its customer intelligence and marketing strategy more quickly than it could by selling to end users.

Payair's technology supports many mobile-payment methods, but the Swedish company is promoting only the most straightforward forms through its integration with Cash IT.

Apple's Passbook wallet is a blank canvas for developers of mobile payment apps. Some Passbook apps take a conventional approach to payments, and others put a more imaginative spin on what a mobile wallet can be.

An embedded feature of the Samsung Wallet on the upcoming Galaxy S4 smartphone could give merchants an easier and cheaper way to accept mobile payments and coupons at the point of sale.

The U.S. may not follow other countries' lead in forcing EMV chip-card users to use a PIN, but data from a biannual Federal Reserve Board survey indicates there is value to sticking with PIN.

Intuit is making Inuit Pay generally available in the UK, enabling businesses to accept credit and debit payments in person and over the phone.

The company’s new iPad app can perform many of the same functions as its iPhone app, such as accepting PayPal and swiped card payments. The iPad app is being targeted at businesses that require hardware more robust than an iPhone to accept payments, yet don’t have a point-of-sale system.

In an interview with PaymentsSource, Cohen describes the opportunities that arise for companies like Merchant Warehouse amid the rapid changes taking place in the payments industry.

Independent sales organizations and agents can use automated clearing house and credit card data to identify the most likely prospects for transaction services.