Retailers

Equipment leasing company TimePayment is adding a new Web calculator to improve vendors’ ability to manage payments for business equipment, as well as extend sales by optimizing renters’ budgets.

Cynergy Data has chosen Roam’s white-label product to power its Vwalaa mobile payment brand.

Barnes & Noble, the biggest U.S. bookstore chain, won the dismissal of a suit over the “skimming” of customers’ PIN codes from credit-card readers at stores in New York, California and seven other states.

VeriFone's recovery from its earnings slump will rely heavily on merchants investing in new technology to respond to the impact of mobile on payments.

Braintree is viewing consumer purchasing behavior at multiple merchants to improve fraud mitigation.

The launch of PayPal's revamped mobile app is a coming out party for the eBay unit to prove it's laid the foundation to be a serious offline payments player by employing strategies that differ greatly from how it achieved success as an e-commerce payments scheme.

Total System Services has signed a long-term acquiring agreement with Irving, Texas-based Anovia Payments.

Target has emerged as a leader in store-branded debit cards. The goal of such cards is to use data analytics and discounts to cement customers’ loyalty.

A new group of payment terminal providers will add Isis’ specifications for payments and loyalty programs, enabling the telecom-driven mobile wallet to reach approximately 90% of the addressable market for point of sale hardware in the U.S.

Elavon has hired Realex Payments to provide a number of digital payments services for the Elavon Payment Gateway in Europe.

In an effort to shield merchants looking to expand into new markets, PayPal will launch an expanded seller protection policy for the Asia Pacific region on Oct. 11.

Citibank has agreed to pay $55,000 to settle a complaint by the Connecticut attorney general that the bank was aware of a security flaw in its online banking service that resulted in hackers obtaining payment card data and stealing about $2.7 million.

Doomsayers conveniently forget that the business case for introducing debit cards was one of cost avoidance for the banks, not revenue.

U.S. merchants are in for a rude awakening if they do not prepare for the spike in e-commerce fraud that will likely follow the shift to EMV-chip cards at the point of sale.

It’s easier to sell a person something he wants than to scare him into buying protection from something he wants to avoid. That’s particularly applicable when it comes to selling payments security.

Any new payments technology is a gamble, and many major retailers refuse to take a risk on untested technology. But small merchants are usually more willing to experiment, and a few have bravely given new payments products their first big chance.

The terminal swapouts that accompany the EMV chip-card migration in the U.S. should help VeriFone recover from its performance slump, according to Northcoast Research.

The St. Louis-based grocery chain Schnucks Markets Inc. continues to face legal woes, four months after disclosing that up to 2.4 million credit and debit card numbers were exposed in a data breach initiated last December.

MasterCard, C-SAM and DNP are preparing to launch a white label mobile wallet service in Japan.

E-Commerce services provider Digital River is launching a mobile payment acceptance product called Beanstream Mobile.