Retailers

The increase in m-commerce means the risk of consumer drop off is increasing—and retailers need to shore up their user experience to respond.

The U.K.'s new MoneyGram Plus card seems at first like a standard loyalty card, but to MoneyGram it is a way to streamline the long and repetitive task of initiating a transfer through an agent.

The U.S. migration to EMV chip cards has been rough, according to U.K.-based Creditcall, which hopes its new certification from First Data can smooth things out.

In order to promote uptake of digital financial services (DFS) and achieve a fully operational digital ecosystem, mobile money needs to be as easy to use and as flexible as cash.

Quick service restaurants often have to make technology decisions faster than other restaurant categories, and the regional fried chicken chain Zaxby's is no exception.

Five months after the U.S. EMV liability shift for counterfeit card fraud went into effect, most restaurants aren't processing chip cards, and that's not changing anytime soon, according to a top executive at Heartland Payment Systems.

Payveris’ Jeff Weikert recently took the position that faster payments are more of an opportunity than a threat to financial institutions’ customer relationships. I agree, and see faster payments as not only an opportunity, but a responsibility to our customers and all consumers in the U.S.

Capital One Financial in McLean, Va., has added Amazon's former chief information security officer to its board of directors.

Through a partnership with fraud prevention provider Ethoca, Total System Services Inc. is offering card issuers and merchants a new tool to prevent e-commerce chargebacks.

I am glad the Department of Justice picked a fight with Apple. Let me explain why.

U.S. consumers remain unimpressed by mobile wallets and annoyed by EMV, so something has to give at the point of sale. That something could be coupons.

In the spirit of a rising tide lifting all boats, we hope Apple figures out ways to add value to the mobile commerce ecosystem, not just be another isolated technology with limited value to merchants and consumers. Because Apple has work to do.

JetPay, a payments processor and provider of card services, has agreed to buy CollectorSolutions, also a payments processor.

The expected 100% growth in card not present (CNP) fraud by 2018 threatens small and medium businesses as well as enterprises, and companies need to shore up their data and customer analytics now to stem the tide.

Chase Pay, JPMorgan Chase's mobile wallet, has just landed an unlikely early partner with a history of going it alone: Starbucks.

Despite banks' attempts to test and use blockchain, the technology that powers bitcoin, for their own commercial gain, it is outside the realm of possibility for the technology to serve any useful purpose for the intermediaries it was designed to replace.

Texas Capital Bancshares in Dallas has named TSYS Chief Information Officer Patty Watson to its board.

Starbucks' loyalty program will soon reward bonus points based on money spent rather than recognizing individual purchases, a change designed to ease workflow and increase participation rather than dilute benefits, company executives said Monday morning.

Cash is declining rapidly in much of Europe, a favourable development that saves money, gives governments greater ability to encourage economic development and even reduces crime.

There is a different feel to the troubles American Express faces today, mainly because its lost Costco relationship represented what might be one of the last of its kind — a deal in which a large retailer gives exclusivity to a certain card brand and tells customers how to pay.