Retailers

Payroll cards are part of the emerging mobile payments capabilities that are shifting the nature of financial transactions.

ShopKeep's most recent survey of its 20,000 merchant clients shows two mobile payment trends at odds with one another.

The volume of payment apps is reaching critical mass. From retailers to coffee shops to airlines, companies across virtually every industry have developed a mobile app to make the payments experience simpler and faster for their customers – and to gather more data on who they are and how they spend their money.

There is a whopping $630.5 billion bonanza of holiday shopping projected to occur this holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation. Though if retailers aren't ready to accept chip cards and mobile transactions, they could miss out.

Square Inc., which started trading on Thursday after an initial public offering, is worth less than the valuation it got as a private company -- and some employees are hurting.

As shopping gets more digital, so does fraud. The rise in technology at shoppers' fingertips provides many new channels for scammers to exploit.

The United States and United Kingdom recently published detailed money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessments identifying both law enforcement and national security challenges.

Black Friday will mark a new milestone this year, when mobile devices for the first time will account for about half of all online purchases during the first weekend of the holiday shopping frenzy, according to a new study.

Square is expanding its payroll offering to Florida.

Square Inc. raised about a third less than it sought in its initial public offering as investors balked at a higher valuation for the mobile-payments service.

Malware is a topic that everyone is talking about. Giant movie studio’s network is hacked? The attackers used malware. Big retailer’s point-of-sale system is breached? Malware did it. Hackers breached ATMs at multiple banks? They used malware.

Dunkin' Donuts, in a bid to catch up to the technology prowess of Starbucks Corp., is testing on-the-go ordering and delivery service in some U.S. markets.

Despite many merchants' resistance to the EMV migration in the U.S., the chip-card technology can become more appetizing when it is baked into another item on the terminal maker's menu.

Merchants have long known card network rules permit them to charge a different price for accepting cash versus cards, but outside of gasoline retailers, most merchants haven’t done much about it.

At a recent HCE Payments conference attended by Helixion there was an interesting debate about what form would drive contactless payments forward: mobile or wearables.

First Data and NCR Corp. are flexing their scale muscles in an agreement that brings the technology strength of both companies to the grocery, petroleum and convenience store industries and expands NCR's ATM footprint.

The October 2015 “liability shift” date has come and gone. For years leading up to it finance and payments pundits (and eventually the general population) discussed the impact of this date to force merchants to migrate to EMV-enabled credit cards, from the decades old magnetic stripe standard.

Within less than 12 hours, LoanDepot Inc., a fast-growing mortgage lender, aborted its plan to go public and Fitbit Inc., the maker of wearable devices, priced a secondary offering below the previous day’s close.

Gas stations have until 2017 to upgrade pumps for EMV chip-card acceptance, but first things first — the indoor point of sale at convenience stores at those stations were included in the October 2015 liability shift for merchants.

Around the world consumer adoption for electronic wallets has risen steadily. And mobile wallets such as Apple Pay are finding their ways onto mobile devices around the world.