Retailers

Many organizations wait for a customer request before they will convert a document to an accessible format and do not advertise the fact that they can offer accessible documents, so many customers don’t realize they can request them, writes Ernie Crawford, president, CEO and founder of Crawford Technologies.

As new cryptocurrencies swarm the market, retailers have to be disciplined in which they accept — if any.

While the intermediaries that record and verify transactions such as payments are removed, the remaining parties may not be ready for shifting responsibilities to guarantee transactions, writes Sebastian Venderzeil, a director at Cornerstone.

New models are emerging, including joint initiatives between established banks and new alternative lending players, as well as those incorporating blockchain and cryptocurrencies, writes Eugene Green from WishFinance.

A reverse auction service for restaurants is trying to ease the industry's costs through a decentralized payments system.

Alliance Data Systems is developing a co-branded credit card and a private-label credit card program with Sweden-based Ikea’s U.S. furniture store operations.

Account takeover's harder to quantify than payment fraud because it has so many elements and downstream impacts, writes Kevin Lee, trust and safety architect at Sift Science.

Integration is the future of business management. There’s an unlimited availability of powerful tools out there that make us wonder how we ever did business prior, writes Rob Nathan, an executive vice president at CardConnect.

With their millions of customers, large retailers like Forever 21 have typically been the hardest hit, writes Mark Cline, a vice president at Netsurion.

Payment fraudsters are agile and adaptive, and they change the items they target depending on what will be easiest to steal and resell, writes Michael Reitblat, CEO and founder of Forter.