Retailers

The card brand will run tests in Poland, which has a high penetration of contactless cards but many small merchants concerned about the technology's cost.

Compliance is improving, but more than 40% of companies still have work to do, according to a new Verizon report.

On the surface, Android Pay may not seem that different from the Google Wallet launched four years before it. Ultimately, it took the failure of multiple mobile wallets for Android Pay to find its own path.

Competition from global giants like Amazon and Alibaba and millions of independent retailers, coupled with the constant threat of credit card fraudsters, makes it imperative that online retailers tick all the boxes to reduce risk, writes Suresh Dakshina, CEO of Chargeback Gurus.

Some virtual currencies are getting narrower focuses on individual categories such as dentistry, and Burger King will soon find out if the concept is transferrable to Russian fast food.

Millennial purchases are fueled by convenience, efficiency and value, and with the recent announcement of Instant Pick Up, Amazon has taken another step in the right direction, writes Gil Don, CEO of Splitit.

NCR Corp. has entered a strategic referral relationship with Performance Food Group Co. (PFG) to promote NCR’s payments services to hundreds of restaurants via the food service operator’s 36 national distribution centers.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is telling agencies and companies that collect or store data to change the way they have been protecting their networks — and its guidance is likely to soon spill over to financial services and payments.

Alternative currency investments are volatile. Another way to look at the market's sustainability is the willingness of participants to stick with this new mode of payments, writes Mariam Nishanian, a representative for Dentacoin, a virtual currency for the dental industry.

Amazon.com Inc.’s proposed $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market Inc. won quick U.S. antitrust approval, showing that concerns in Washington about the growing power of technology companies weren’t enough to derail the online retailer’s biggest-ever acquisition.