Retailers

The ACHBanking payment processing gateway has added Office of Foreign Assets Control standards to its service to better comply with regulations for preventing fund transfers between parties on government watch lists.

As more retailers consider uses for tablets in their stores, Moki Mobility Inc. figures it is in the right place at the right time to offer its cloud-based point of sale management technology.

Payment providers that don't move to support more integrated digital commerce may find themselves unable to serve the "connected consumer" of the future.

Consumers in China are making more purchases online than in-store, prompting the country's retailers to support payment options that are normally associated with e-commerce.

A new version of Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) guidelines to be published by the PCI Council today will allow retailers—for the first time—to be able to create and seek certification for their own P2PE system, addressing a longstanding retailer concern about the earlier rules locking them into certain vendor relationships.

In an effort to appeal to more businesses by helping them manage their employees, Square has launched Square Payroll.

First launched as a method for tracking vehicles during manufacturing in 1994, the humble QR code has become instantly recognisable for most consumers as a marketing tool.

Just as the Apple Watch prepares to land in the U.K., Barclaycard is launching three new high-tech accessories of its own — and borrowing Apple's practice of attaching a higher-than-average price tag to its wares.

The era of antitrust violations by the big card companies isn’t over yet; but at least it is starting to crumble.

Retailers increasingly prefer software to execute fast point of sale updates, leading longtime hardware provider NCR to use a centralized digital hub to help merchants avoid the cost and time of 'rip and replace' projects.

Citigroup has agreed to acquire Brooks Brothers' credit card portfolio and issue cards on behalf of the clothing retailer.

An Automated Clearing House joint venture in Europe will help handle increased cross-border transactions in the Single Euro Payments Area and keep the processors on track to adjust to any future faster payments initiatives.

While nobody knows what technology entrepreneur and payments executive Jack Dorsey will do next, a series of circumstances are making Twitter a possible permanent move.

CEO Frank Bisignano trumpets a resurgent First Data as the company reportedly preps an IPO, according The Wall Street Journal. How much progress has the company made?

As mobile payment systems mature, they still face several hurdles to adoption. Some of these problems are as much cultural as they are technological.

Digital payments company Payveris and credit union support company EPL have jointly announced an electronic bill payment product.

In Washington Heights, a small startup has found a new opportunity by building a business to business platform to serve the numerous storefront remittance providers in the largely Latin American neighborhood in Upper Manhattan.

The fraud fix, as it is becoming clearer, is to take payment card information (account numbers, card verification values and the like) and devalue this data in an effort to make it less relevant to the hackers who seek to harvest and sell it.

Canada's suretap mobile wallet provides service to most of the country's mobile carriers, but its coverage map omits Apple handsets and most Canadian banks.

To address the impact of American Express President Ed Gilligan's death in May, the card network has changed some executive roles and revised its internal corporate structure.