Retailers

Digital transactions tied to travel are growing quickly, putting pressure on airlines to support third party mobile wallets and other e-commerce options.

Mobile payment solution providers and issuers may now use Global to ensure ExpressPay HCE apps are performing in line with Amex’s specifications.

ACI's Universal Payments software for merchants will deliver various payments options to a new Co-op program which covers more than 2,800 stores in the U.K.

Financial services companies such as PayPal, Lydia and RBC are testing chatbots on platforms such as Slack and Facebook Messenger.

The payments industry has been overrun with innovation in mobile, wearable and cloud-based digital payments. But many niches are years — if not decades — behind this trend.

The mobile point of sale company's partnership with the coffee chain was designed to bring Square's mobile payments technology into Starbucks locations. But the partnership didn't pan out and ended a couple of years ago.

Jennifer Miles will join Ingenico later this year to help the company's North American expansion and mobile point of sale efforts.

Contextual commerce is the next big thing in retail as the payments transaction slides to the background. But it relies on building sophisticated consumer relationships.

For some time now, restaurant chains have been adding mobile order-ahead options, betting they’d be popular with their customers. But even they were caught off guard with just how big of a hit the technology is turning out to be.

Thousands of U.S. merchants are still holding out against EMV because they see no immediate threat from counterfeit card fraud, and business goes on. But a less obvious change in payment card acceptance may finally force them to upgrade.