Retailers

Photo-clipping social network Pinterest may be the next step for banks and payment companies seeking to add a visual kick to their mobile, tablet and online marketing strategies.

Mobile-payments processor Rev Worldwide is offering merchants in emerging markets a way to accept payments without a bank account.

Easycash Loyalty Solutions GmbH has signed an agreement to provide software for electronic payments in the mobile hand-held terminals of taxis in Belgium.

Planet Payment Inc.’s efforts to reduce U.S. merchants’ international charge-back and online card-acceptance costs through a deal to offer a 3-D Secure service from CardinalCommerce Corp. could hinge on consumer participation in the fraud-prevention service.

Signature Systems says its Swift Exchange platform can address a pain point for rewards wallets: rewards are easier for consumers to earn than to spend.

If some in the merchant acquiring industry consider banks to be unaware of, or at least slow to react to, technological changes in payments, they may want to rethink that perception.

Apple has over 300 retail stores, but it relies heavily on mobile devices — not just cash registers — to handle payments in its aisles. Intuit's latest update to QuickBooks Point of Sale allows its small-merchant clients to duplicate Apple's model.

Online-payments provider Braintree Inc. hopes to add international clients to its customer list during the third quarter.

Cartera Commerce has received $12.2 million in funding from a group of investors led by Comvest Group, the loyalty-shopping platform provider announced June 5.

Square Inc.’s mobile card reader is available at more than 20,000 retail locations nationwide, including Walgreen Co., Staples Inc. and FedEx Office stores, the company announced June 4.

Most news regarding contactless-payment technology centers around retail merchants, terminal makers or telecommunication companies as major players.

The CEO of ZooZ admits that he wasn't thinking of the prominent Zeus malware, which targets bank accounts, when he named his payments company. But he was absolutely thinking of security.

Intuit Inc. is looking to deepen entrepreneurs' reliance on its small-business payment services with a new payment-reminder app for mobile phones.

Some of America’s transaction processors may be in for a shock when they begin trying to accept EMV chip cards in the coming months.

Who exactly are the micromerchants Square Inc. and its rivals are going after?

Of the independent sales organizations and agents ready to commit to mobile payments, many are facing information overload and don’t know where to begin. The mobile market is still in its infancy, and everyone from technology companies to processors are flooding it with innovation and ideas that may or may not take hold.

Canada has a head start on the U.S. in adopting contactless payments. And as tap-and-pay technology spreads, the use of cash for routine transactions is on track to decline sharply within five years, a new study contends.

Tokenizing payment information and sending the data to the cloud can solve many issues for companies that accept payments, as long as the companies trust the tokenization provider.

In a scary new mobile-banking fraud scheme, criminals are tricking mobile network operators banks into swapping out the SIM cards in customers' mobile phones and using illegally obtained data to drain a victim's funds from bank accounts.

Acculynk Inc. previously cast its online PIN-debit service overseas, but it has landed what the company considers “a major development in a burgeoning market” in becoming the provider enabling RuPay cardholders in India to initiate online transactions.