Retailers

The Affordable Care Act's individual mandate will hasten individual responsibility for health care procurement and payments, making mobile apps increasingly important.

Above all else, independent sales organizations and sales agents should make sure their residual payments never end.

Eat24.com has developed a new point of sale terminal and restaurant management system it intends to offer for free to help clients handle online food orders.

The PayVest event in New York, presented by PaymentsSource, American Banker and NYPAY, brought together many key players in emerging payments and technology. Many of them are taking different paths to the future.

The Federal Trade Commission's recent lawsuits against two independent sales organizations for alleged violations of the Telemarketing Sales Rule may be the "tip of the iceberg" of regulatory action against the acquiring industry.

While independent sales organizations stringently keep up their compliance with the Payment Card Industry data security standard, they don't always protect non-payments data and paper records as diligently.

The Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) has hired Dekkers Davidson to be its CEO. Davidson was most recently a managing director at Barclaycard US.

After years of government and telco-backed testing of contactless mobile payments in France, a major bank is ready to provide a significant boost to the country's Near Field Communication project.

PayPal and its parent eBay each expect $20 billion in mobile commerce and payment volume this year, eBay CEO John Donahoe says.

Shopzilla, a technology company that manages a portfolio of shopping, product comparison and coupon websites, is expanding its mobile payments capabilities by acquiring startup Zappli.

Banks and payment card providers would face caps on the transaction fees they can demand from retailers under European Union plans to rein in charges that have been attacked by regulators as anticompetitive.

Tablet point of sale technology provider ShopKeep POS has hired Todd Lasher as vice president and general manager of its channel business.

Dubbed the "Athens of America" because it's rife with colleges and universities in the area, Boston is becoming a hub for tech startups as recent grads — and even dropouts — bring fresh perspective to the payments industry.

C-Sam Inc., Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. and HyperSoft Co. Ltd. have jointly developed "Salon de Wallet," a mobile wallet for beauty salons in Japan.

Cloud payment processor i2c Inc. and Heartland Payment Systems have teamed to provide prepaid card processing services. Their first collaboration is to add features to the National Restaurant Association’s Edge prepaid card program.

Businesses that provide payments services to companies that collect or use consumer data should closely watch the FTC’s recent lawsuits against two processors and fully assess the legal risks that might be associated with their business relationships.

Payments and marketing are getting closer than ever, and several companies are blurring the line between where the payment ends and where the pitch begins.

GoCardless is using a link to Sage's accounting software to improve the experience of automating business-to-business payments in a market that typically lags the consumer payments market.

The Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a mobile payments initiative created by major retailers, will use technology from FIS to speed processing and provide access to accounts at a large range of financial institutions.

The payment processor Global Payments Inc. will offer its U.S. merchant customers an iPad point of sale system from ShopKeep POS.