Retailers

Consumers enrolled in the CurrentC mobile wallet in Columbus, Ohio will be cut off after June 28 when the year-long pilot conducted by Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) ends.

Verifone is taking a scalpel to its business after seeing soft results during its second fiscal quarter, enacting a plan to cut 5% of its personnel and look for opportunities to jettison older, underperforming parts of its business.

Advocates of free trade and fighting protectionism are more likely to focus on industries like steel and agriculture, but they should also pay attention to the payments sphere.

Most mobile wallet providers and retailers have been hunting for the magic formula that would seamlessly blend loyalty and mobile payments, in the hopes that one would inevitably fuel the other. But it's a delicate recipe, and very easy to get wrong.

U.S. card issuers lose $10.9 billion each year to card fraud, according to research released Tuesday by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

Compared to the United States, other geographies have seemingly had an easier task to bring real time payments to market – simply based on their size.

Verifone and its beacon technology provider Footmarks are partnering with Allrecipes.com and grocery retailer Marc’s in Ohio to deliver meal recommendations to shoppers.

Chili’s Grill & Bar, hurt by a shift away from sit-down dining, is hoping to win back customers with a new tactic: bringing food to them.

Merchants sued Visa and MasterCard in 1996 when the card networks forced them to "honor all cards," and though the suit settled in 2003, the wounds are reopening with the spread of mobile wallets.

Unfortunately, as fraud prevention technology advances, so do fraudsters’ tactics. Think of the cat and the mouse. As merchants and financial institutions become better at thwarting traditional fraud techniques, criminals are forced to adapt. The onus is now on the financial institutions and merchants to stay ahead.