Retailers

In announcing plans to export Just Walk Out to other retailers, Amazon rattled the emerging autonomous checkout industry and raised questions about its ability to amass even more data than it already has about consumer consumption patterns.

The credit card issuer is seeking to rebound following a tumultuous year in which top executives departed and key retail partners declared bankruptcy.

For the past decade, the drive for modern restaurant point-of-sale terminals and software has turned into a highly competitive race seeking new looks and ideas.

Coronavirus, also called Covid-19, is wreaking havoc on the stock market, with a heightened effect on the travel industry. It could also cause a drastic change in payment habits, as consumers shift to digital channels to reduce their risk of infection from handling cash.

The U.K.’s Co-operative Group is creating a new model for online grocery shopping by using its network of convenience stores as local distribution centers.

It’s an odd, and unwelcome, test of new retail technology that allows consumers to shop with minimal interaction with others.

Square is adding to its menu of services just as long-established competitors embed expanding payments technology into their own product mix.

The rise in food delivery options is affecting restaurants of all kinds. It's a trend driven by consumers' strong appetite for mobile ordering and payments.

Visa typically adjusts its interchange rates every April and October, but this year it is getting an atypically strong response.

Instead of a live caller engaging in social engineering with a single prospective target, automatic dialers call thousands of people, instructing them to call bogus telephone numbers purported to belong to the IRS, Social Security Administration, or their bank, says The Santa Fe Group's Bob Jones

Magecart attackers steal credit card or bank data directly from the checkout pages on e-commerce websites and resell them on the dark web, says PerimiterX's Ameet Naik.

Bank pilots and 'open banking' are paving the way for rampant adoption, says Fingerprints' Lina Andolf-Orup.

Millennials especially have shunned credit cards in favor of buying even low-ticket items using a system of installment loans, often incurring little to no interest, says Jifiti's Nufar Segal.

It seems the payments industry is once again pushing liability to the merchants with no plans to hold anyone else along the payments ecosystem accountable for ensuring that viable solutions are available, says the Merchant Advisory Group's John Drechny.

Alternative lending companies are one of the strongest examples of how leveraging rich financial transaction data can be used to go beyond traditional credit risk assessments, says Finsync's Eddie Davis.

As an early adopter of e-commerce in the 1990s, 1-800-Flowers.com is pushing the envelope again with 3-D and augmented reality technologies to sell floral arrangements with new payment options, including Venmo.

Until the gender gap of the technology, banking and payment industries change, innovation will continue to be impacted, says Itemize's Samantha Fisher.

For banks and other financial institutions to survive and thrive in the age of mobile payments and e-commerce, they need to continue to enhance their mobile apps with more innovations, tighter security features and more time-saving capabilities.

For banks and other financial institutions to survive and thrive in the age of mobile payments and e-commerce, they need to continue to enhance their mobile apps with more innovations, tighter security features, and more time-saving capabilities, says Informa Financial Intelligence's Gina DeCorla.

Biometrics technology provider PopID has developed a business philosophy that tests the consumers' comfort level with facial recognition in a more casual setting.