Retailers

Abercrombie & Fitch and Klarna are following a successful launch of short-term installment loans on apparel in Germany by adding more markets.

By turning compatibility into a nonissue, APIs help enable open banking, which has the potential to offer core banking services such as payment initiation or account balances through APIs, writes JPMorgan Chase's Stephen Markwell.

H&M will enable Klarna as a payment option in its 580 U.S. stores beginning this fall, building on a partnership the two Swedish companies established last year.

As blockchain use cases grow, retailers are seeing more reasons to use the distributed ledger technology for payments.

AI can ease shortfalls in legacy processing and risk systems, contends Deep Labs' Michael Lynch

Fraudsters are getting clever about beating authentication for returning users, says NuData Security's Robert Capps

Compliance can be complex and expensive, but failure puts merchants at risk, says FIME's Christian Damour.

Hackers are flocking to loyalty and rewards programs, pushing marketers to embed extra fraud technology to stem financial losses.

Large U.S. banks and merchants are finally working together to support contactless payments. But two of retail's biggest chains, Walmart and Kroger, aren't on board, and for good reason.

Amazon’s move pressures other merchants to add speed to e-commerce delivery while adding a few more steps to vet payments, writes Monica Eaton-Cardone, COO of Chargebacks911 and CIO of its parent company Global Risk Technologies