Retailers

Most news regarding contactless-payment technology centers around retail merchants, terminal makers or telecommunication companies as major players.

The CEO of ZooZ admits that he wasn't thinking of the prominent Zeus malware, which targets bank accounts, when he named his payments company. But he was absolutely thinking of security.

Intuit Inc. is looking to deepen entrepreneurs' reliance on its small-business payment services with a new payment-reminder app for mobile phones.

Some of America’s transaction processors may be in for a shock when they begin trying to accept EMV chip cards in the coming months.

Who exactly are the micromerchants Square Inc. and its rivals are going after?

Of the independent sales organizations and agents ready to commit to mobile payments, many are facing information overload and don’t know where to begin. The mobile market is still in its infancy, and everyone from technology companies to processors are flooding it with innovation and ideas that may or may not take hold.

Canada has a head start on the U.S. in adopting contactless payments. And as tap-and-pay technology spreads, the use of cash for routine transactions is on track to decline sharply within five years, a new study contends.

Tokenizing payment information and sending the data to the cloud can solve many issues for companies that accept payments, as long as the companies trust the tokenization provider.

In a scary new mobile-banking fraud scheme, criminals are tricking mobile network operators banks into swapping out the SIM cards in customers' mobile phones and using illegally obtained data to drain a victim's funds from bank accounts.

Acculynk Inc. previously cast its online PIN-debit service overseas, but it has landed what the company considers “a major development in a burgeoning market” in becoming the provider enabling RuPay cardholders in India to initiate online transactions.

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Merchants have never before had so many options for accepting cards, but a stubborn core that deals only in cash may never change its ways.

Buffalo Wild Wings is all about overwhelming its patrons with options — it has over a dozen wing sauces to choose from, and it is testing a system that adds more variety to how people order and pay.

Elavon, a unit of U.S. Bancorp, is taking a different approach to mobile card acceptance by using a wireless card reader that is as big as the phone it pairs with.

It's getting harder for merchants to stick to a cash-only business model. The options for cheap - and free - mobile card readers are too numerous to ignore.

The Electronic Transactions Association is wrapping up its second month-long test period for a credential it says improves the acquiring industry's credibility with merchants and gives participating independent sales organizations and sales agents a competitive advantage.

Merchant acquirer banks using ACI Worldwide Inc. processing software will get some fresh help in managing merchant accounts and handling payment settlements.

VeriFone Systems reported that its second-quarter net income dropped roughly 42%, to $14.5 million, from a year earlier as expenses rose.

Vantiv is offering Ingenico's new point of sale products in an effort to prepare the industry for the EMV chip-card standard and Near Field Communication technology.

Independent sales organizations can present themselves as consultants by specializing in offering card-acceptance services to just one or two types of clients and really getting to know those businesses.