Retailers

The Electronic Transactions Association plans to keep expanding its advocacy, educational and networking efforts in the coming year.

VeriFone has launched UX Solutions, a suite of payment devices that support EMV-chip and mag-stripe payments.

Jusp, a mobile point of sale provider, announced a flat monthly fee ranging from 39 to 69 euros (approximately $53 to $93) to target midmarket merchants and large corporations.

The mobile point of sale vendor ShopKeep POS has updated its tablet-based point of sale with several new features designed to streamline its use.

Payments processor Cardis USA and mobile commerce vendor Spindle are joining with vending machine manufacturer Multi-max to enable mobile payments at its machines, where most consumers still buy coffee with cash.

NCR Corp. has updated its NCR Silver point of sale system for iPad, adding features that allow a small business to grow including support for multiple locations.

Square has eliminated holds and deposit limits for manually entered transactions in the U.S., and is marketing these changes to frustrated PayPal users.

SaaS-based technology provides a blended approach to remittance processing that enables financial institutions to outsource infrastructure responsibilities, while retaining the management of transaction processing, bank deposits and receivable updates.

Big players are entering the merchant cash advance business and the industry's smaller players are maturing. Meanwhile, the market is growing with the help of automated clearinghouse transactions.

Cynergy Data has named Afshin Yazdian as its new CEO, while outgoing CEO Kim Fitzsimmons will remain with the company as a member of the board and take on a strategic role with Comvest Partners, Cynergy's private equity investor.

Hybrid PayTech World Inc. is offering programs to allow application developers to incorporate the company’s multi-operating-system payments technology.

Continuing its international expansion through partnerships, U.S.-based EVO Payments International LLC has acquired a controlling interest in Polish financial institution PKO Bank Polski's merchant acquiring arm.

The Twitter initial public offering culminated with the ringing of the New York Stock Exchange's opening bell Thursday, the social media site becoming a public company valued at more than $14 billion. But Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey isn't done with Wall Street yet, as he's reportedly begun exploring an IPO for Square, the mobile payments startup he co-founded in 2009.

Harbortouch has released its Perkwave integrated point of sale terminal with EMV-chip and Near Field Communication capabilities.

More independent sales organizations are using fees to force merchants to take Payment Card Industry security standard compliance seriously.

If ISOs want to stand out in the acquiring industry, they have to bring something valuable to the table — something that will deliver a lasting edge in terms of competitiveness or efficiency.

On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) plans to ship 40,000 Near Field Communication payment readers to North America by the end of the year.

Total Systems Services (TSYS) and Womply, a big-data startup, are nearing their goal of providing Womply's Insights platform to 10,000 of TSYS' clients by the end of the year.

Payments processor Elavon will handle mobile payment transactions generated through iZettle mobile card readers in Europe.

Square Inc.'s new partnership with Staples treats the office supply seller as both a distribution channel and a showroom for its Square Stand point of sale system.