Retailers

Direct-response merchants, including many that sell products online and through TV infomercials, are reaping tangible benefits from the Durbin amendment that cut their debit card transaction costs.

Providing security to block cybercriminals determined to steal payment data represents a complex task involving software applications and connections throughout a network.

When Discover Financial Services last week announced its EMV smart card conversion timetable for the United States, it again stoked debate over whether card networks and issuers should embrace the chip-and-PIN or chip-and-signature formats.

Hewlett Packard Co. has developed payment software-as-a-service to help merchants reduce the scope of Payment Card Industry data security standards compliance and improve business processes, the business technology provider announced March 19.

Transaction Network Services Inc. is launching a mobile-payment gateway service for its customers, the company announced March 19.

Tony Zazula made headlines for banning cash from his upscale New York restaurant. Now he's trying to bring that policy to the masses.

After a smooth beta test, the CEO of Viableware’s Rail system is confident the tableside payment platform will be in almost 700 restaurants by the end of 2012.

Discover Financial Services is the latest card network to announce a conversion plan for the secure EMV chip-card standard in the U.S.

First Data Corp. is entering the fray of technology vendors offering merchants and retail banks the ability to issue digital deals.

United Kingdom-based payment processor Streamline has added more speed to its service through new gateway software for its customers.

Heartland Payment Systems Inc. now has a new take on just how popular Apple Inc.’s iOS devices are.

PayPal Inc. reportedly is planning to launch a mobile card reader that could help its nascent point-of-sale payment system reach small merchants.

Many small retailers who can’t afford to convert their websites to accommodate mobile browsers and payments are letting potential purchases get away. Mobile-payments provider The MoBank Group plans to help such retailers to overcome that problem.

Ingenico SA will make wireless mobile-payment and countertop chip-and-PIN terminals available to taxicabs throughout the United Kingdom after striking a deal with SilverPay Services Ltd., the French terminal maker announced March 12.

PayPal Inc. is redesigning its website and smartphone application to downplay online payments and give more prominence to its newer products, such as its point-of-sale payment system.

Thales e-Security Inc. and Aconite have joined forces to make smart card transactions more secure, whether from an EMV card or mobile device.

Visa Inc. is asserting that the acquiring industry has had sufficient notice of the card brand’s new Fixed Acquirer Network Fee, which takes effect April 1.

China UnionPay plans to expand acceptance of its Quick Pass contactless payment technology to more retail locations, buoyed by its popularity among young and trendy customers in Mainland China.

A deal announced last week with Discover Financial Services would help expand use and acceptance of RuPay among residents of India's urban communities, officials from the National Payments Corp. of India tells PaymentsSource.

Heartland Payments Systems Inc. is expanding merchant payment-acceptance flexibility and enhancing customer convenience by making its Mobuyle platform compatible with Apple Inc. iOS mobile devices, the company announced March 12.