Retailers

The National Australia Bank will partner with digital identity proofing company iSignthis to provide advanced card services to merchant customers in Australia and New Zealand.

Walmart Stores Inc. agreed to buy e-commerce startup Jet.com Inc. for about $3.3 billion, giving the world’s largest retailer the resources for a stronger shopping website to compete with market leader Amazon.com Inc.

Merchants using BlueSnap payments technology to power e-commerce and mobile checkout will have Visa Checkout as a payment option for customers.

Once fraud has been detected and a customer’s usual payment mechanism is broken, what happens next to ensure that customer remains happy and loyal?

The loyalty key fobs that reside alongside car and house keys on a chain is rarely discussed in the plastic card market, but has nonetheless undergone a revolution in recent years. Certainly in the U.K., their popularity has soared.

Payments technology is rapidly changing, but so is the broader environment for retailers, creating a need for flexible and diverse payment acceptance options.

To thrive in today’s internationally volatile markets, financial institutions and other organizations must attend more closely to the cross-border payments process.

The tough move from free to fee for its readers has Square adjusting its strategy to lure merchants, but it also opens the door wider to new markets, according to CEO Jack Dorsey.

Square Inc., the company that makes white, cube-shaped credit card readers for mobile devices, forecast third-quarter earnings that topped analyst’s estimates, as the company’s core digital payments business grew and its ancillary software and data businesses gained traction.

Three months shy of the EMV liability shift’s one-year anniversary, issuers are making brisk progress but merchants are stuck at a crawl.