Retailers

Visa has accumulated a 9.99% stake in Square, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, giving a boost to the mobile point of sale company, which has faced challenges recently.

Much of the growth in wearable technology is happening without an eye to enabling payments. This is prompting many companies to find a way to add payment capabilities to wearables without forcing users to buy an entirely new device.

By now, many merchants should be wondering if they made the right decision by failing to act before last fall’s EMV liability shift.

Visa and MasterCard have a huge share of the European card markets, but that popularity is attracting increasingly sophisticated online criminals and nimble competitors.

The app ecosystem has enabled payments to blend almost invisibly into the background of many cash-based services, such as ride-sharing and food delivery, but sometimes there is a need to let payments take center stage.

U.S. Bancorp has hired John Steward as president of its retail payments solutions division.

Electronic payment automation delivers significant time and cost savings and can actually turn accounts payable into a profit center through card rebates.

Most consumers, when dining, still enjoy the simplicity of dropping cash on the table than using something newer, like an EMV card or a mobile wallet, even when those payment forms are becoming more commonplace in other stores.

Since payment fraud involves many different types of activity the best way to identify suspicious patterns is to integrate disparate data sources, and cross check data from multiple angles.

Heartland Payment Systems is quickly accumulating technology to serve smaller merchants and restaurants, two key pieces of the services that made the processor attractive to Global Payments, which is in the midst of acquiring Heartland.

Golf course management software provider Club Prophet Systems is using the linked2pay application interface to add Automated Clearing House payment acceptance as an option for its clients.

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) payment risk is making onboarding very complex, though artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly maturing and can help.

In the past year, Verifone's European market share has grown more than 10 percentage points, and Felix declares it her proudest moment in a career that spans 26 years.

Kazazean’s ability to drive collaboration across diverse teams will be a critical asset as she faces Walmart's ambitious shift to omnichannel commerce this year.

It just was a matter of time before a major brand would experience a data breach in 2016. While the Wendy’s card data breach is under investigation it has reinvigorated a discussion among merchants who want to avoid being the next target (no pun intended).

Now's the time for merchants to bolster risk management ahead of the coming onslaught of card not present fraud.

For the first time in its nearly 60-year history, Visa is inviting third-party software developers onto its network with the goal of advancing digital commerce.

Seamless, a Swedish maker of mobile payments software, has partnered with Xpress Money for international money transfers.

U.S. merchants are still reluctant to embrace 3D Secure technology to protect card-not-present transactions, even though it has vastly improved from the initial tedious version that irritated consumers more than a decade ago.

Super Bowl attendees are predicted to spend an average of $82.19 on food, decor, team apparel and more, up from $77.88 last year. Total spending for Super Bowl 50 is expected to top a whopping $15.5 billion.