Retailers

U.S. merchants need to do their research now, seek independent legal advice, and work with their payments provider to determine their exact needs and next steps in order to stay compliant and not risk losing revenue, says Worldpay's Jonathan Dranko.

Banks don't compete with each other enough to effectively lead the move to faster payments in the U.S., argues CMSPI's Mark Horwedel.

In a bid to keep pace with coffee arch-rival Starbucks’ delivery and mobile order-ahead services, Dunkin’ is working with Grubhub to roll out New York delivery.

Both are useful, but each has specialties in protecting different types of transaction processes, according to Rambus Payments' Andre Stoorvogel.

One of Target's high-profile payment outages this weekend stemmed from a problem at one of NCR's data centers, the big box retailer says.

Target in the past 48 hours suffered a pair of unrelated point of sale outages that had at least one thing in common — they resulted in consumers scrambling for a contingency that would have been little problem as recently as four or five years ago.

Cashierless stores have generated a lot of attention, but there’s a heavy lift to ensure the concept works outside of the relatively controlled environment of beta tests and proof-of-concept stores.

China's UnionPay hopes to boost its reach in Italy by about a third, and has turned to local Italian acquirer Nexi to increase acceptance of UnionPay cards in stores and e-commerce.

By making sure their payment processing solution is compliant, they can save themselves the hassle of declined payments and make sure they’re capitalizing on the expansive European e-commerce market, writes Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO and board member at BlueSnap.

The key to capturing young consumers is flexibility and choice at the point of sale, says Michael Rouse, chief commercial officer at Klarna.