Retailers

Google has reinvented its mobile wallet a few times, and its latest reinvention, a rumored plastic card, raises questions about the mobile-pay product’s direction.

For retailers, buying a new point of sale payment system is becoming as easy as buying a stapler or a sheaf of paper. Staples has begun selling several pieces of hardware revolving around NCR’s point of sale system called Silver.

At first, payments players were wary of the LevelUp mobile-pay system, but the startup behind it is fast building relationships with the very companies it could potentially disrupt.

In an effort to better serve its overseas customers, VeriFone has begun rolling out a version of its mobile payments system, Sail, that accepts EMV-chip cards.

Several months after Starbucks announced it was investing $25 million in Square, it has begun accepting the mobile-pay company's digital wallet at its roughly 7,000 retail stores.

VeriFone announced that Glob Taxi Co. of Warsaw, Poland has chosen its payments technology for in-cab transactions.

Taking a cue from the insurance business, Priority Payment Systems is lending its name, prestige and marketing power to its independent sales organizations and sales agents.

American Bancard LLC has purchased the Trilogy Payment Solutions payments business.

The storm left many without electricity, phones and use of the roads. But in many of the affected areas, consumers and merchants continued to conduct business and found a way to handle payments.

Fundtech announced Tuesday that its payments platform is compatible with two Oracle database products.

MasterCard posted a third-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as U.S. consumer spending increased.

After more than a year of planning and regulatory scrutiny, a United Kingdom mobile commerce joint venture called Project Oscar isn’t quite ready to call itself a mobile wallet or payments service.

Establishing credibility with merchants presents a major challenge for independent sales organizations, experts say.

Group of merchants who accept the digital currency Bitcoin are planning their own Black Friday ahead of the holiday shopping season.

About a year and a half ago, Merchant Data Systems Inc. started a college internship program in an attempt to attract younger workers to the firm.

Tim Murphy, chief product officer at MasterCard Inc., spoke to PaymentsSource about why the industry needs the EMV standard, as well as the various challenges facing his company as the payments ecosystem moves into a new, technology-driven era.

Payment processing technology provider SecureNet has launched an instant merchant account boarding software that allows the merchant to begin accepting payments immediately, rather than endure a two-day wait.

As Isis launched its long-awaited mobile wallet test in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas, many people flocked to try it out — and quickly reported their impressions over Twitter.

Barnes & Noble has informed federal law enforcement authorities that "a sophisticated criminal effort" has potentially exposed customers' credit and debit card information to hackers who tampered with PIN pad devices at 63 of its stores.

Square, which has been promising to expand internationally since it received a $25 million investment from Starbucks, said today it is making its mobile-pay product available in Canada.