Retailers

Mobile payments is the next “big thing” for consumers. But how can we keep it from becoming so for hackers as well?

Square Inc. is aiming for a valuation of as much as $4.2 billion in its initial public offering, well short of the $6 billion the mobile-payments service sought in its latest funding round.

With Visa Inc. set to merge with Visa Europe, the U.S. company stands to benefit from the experience its London-based counterpart has in mobile and digital payments. It could also supercharge these projects with added resources.

The rollout of EMV is accompanied by increased card not present fraud, but banks can reduce losses using voice biometrics in the call center.

Point-of-sale payment provider payworks has released a white-label software development kit (SDK) that outside parties can use to develop mobile point of sale services.

Unlike Rite Aid and CVS pharmacies, which cut off contactless Near Field Communication (NFC) payments when Apple Pay launched in October of 2014, Walgreens never bucked the Apple Pay trend and did not take long to start accepting transactions from Apple's mobile pay service.

Bitcoin may have had the most successful marketing campaign of any web technology in recent years. But now there’s a new buzzword making waves throughout the financial industry: “distributed ledger.”

Payments technology provider linked2pay has added remote deposit check capture to is Bank Centric Payments platform for resellers and independent sales organizations.

As we’ve seen with recent high profile data breaches, the threat of cyber-attacks has accelerated in the last 18 months and shows little sign of abating.

Airbnb is integrating with American Express to enable cardholders to sign up for the short-term rental platform and using its services.

MasterCard has named Craig Vosburg president of North America markets.

Nearly two-thirds of small businesses create a formal plan for growth. But ISOs aren't always privy to the details.

Digital wallets present a classic chicken-and-egg problem.

The EMV deadline has come and gone, and customers and retailers alike are realizing that they need to understand and adapt to the new payment reality both online and offline.

To improve its commerce and restaurant management offerings, Heartland Payment Systems has acquired Digital Dining, a provider of software that enables handheld point of sale devices to interact with conventional fixed terminals.

With the highly anticipated EMV liability shift now in effect in the U.S., merchants have been adopting point-of-sale terminals that can accept chip-based cards.

American Express Co. and merchants fighting the company over rules governing credit-card fees are headed back to the negotiating table.

MasterCard is talking to Merchant Customer Exchange executives about what role the card brand could play in the retailers' CurrentC mobile wallet, but the card brand insists it is just an interested observer in the merchant mobile wallet venture.

PayPal has long desired to be a force in brick-and-mortar payments, a strategy that's more vital than ever as the newly independent company pursues a course that distances it from its former owner, eBay.

Have consumers benefited from the Durbin amendment? Unfortunately for opponents of the Dodd-Frank Act provision that capped debit swipe fees, no one is qualified yet to answer that question.