Retailers

Part of the aura of “driving in luxury” includes not worrying about paying at the end of the ride. Uber Technologies Inc. banks on that.

SignatureLink has entered a deal with Magento to allow its antifraud technology to work with Magento's e-commerce system, SignatureLink announced April 17.

Despite new rules and legislation that have cut into certain revenue streams, credit and debit cards are showing some positive trends at U.S. Bancorp.

More independent sales organizations are offering personal computer-based point-of-sale systems to merchants, insiders report.

Heartland Payment Systems Inc. has signed a three-year contract extension with Citgo Petroleum Corp. to continue authorizing debit and credit card transactions at approximately 6,000 of the petroleum retailer’s branded locations nationwide, the transaction processor announced April 17.

When the U.S. broadly adopts chip-enabled payment cards, it is less likely a drastic increase in card-not-present fraud will occur like the spike Europe experienced after its conversion to the EMV card standard, an analyst tells PaymentsSource.

Citi Philippines, a unit of Citigroup Inc. is working with Planet Payment to provide the currency processor's services to Citi's merchant clients in the Philippines.

The reality of Visa Inc.’s new Fixed Acquirer Network Fee will begin to sink in with merchants when their next monthly statements arrive, and most will not greet the new levy warmly, observers warn.

As soon as the pain subsides from enduring a punch in the stomach from another data breach, the payments industry often is ripe for a change in behavior. Or at least it’s willing to learn more about how to avoid future mishaps.

Total System Services Inc., or TSYS, has signed a new long-term partnership agreement with First Hawaiian Bank of Honolulu, renewing its acquirer-processing relationship with the $15.8 billion-asset bank, the Columbus, Ga.-based company announced April 12.

Independent sales organizations apparently aren’t content to stand by and let the big tech companies dominate the new market for micromerchant electronic payments.

Yahoo Inc. is on the cusp of reinventing itself, potentially as an important payments provider that could rival not only PayPal Inc. but Visa Inc. and MasterCard Worldwide as well.

Visa Inc. has rolled out another point-of-sale fraud-fighting tool for payment card issuers already facing costly changes to block fraud at the checkout level with EMV technology.

Independent sales organizations and sales agents will play a key role in teaching America how to use EMV cards, an executive at a payment-terminal provider says.

Online coupon site RetailMeNot.com plans to ride the momentum of a paperless coupon beta test it held at last month’s South by Southwest multimedia festival in Austin, Texas, to stage a national rollout this summer, PaymentsSource has learned.

At least one vending machine payment-processing company has cut off acceptance of debit MasterCards because of new debit card interchange rates that resulted from the Durbin amendment.

Commuters who spend time in Austin, Texas, may find it simpler to locate and pay for parking in the state’s capital city.

The switch from magnetic stripe cards to EMV chip cards in the U.S. appears unlikely to create a surge in demand for EMV-capable terminals, at least in the near future.

Global Payments Inc.'s recent data breach is causing many payments-industry participants, including hundreds of small U.S. processors, to recheck their security, one security expert contends.

Payments-terminal makers are fighting a war on at least two fronts.