Retailers

Seamless transactions are the key to engaging and holding onto consumers, says Tim Tynan, CEO of Bank of America Merchant Services.

FamilyMart and 7-Eleven Japan are using mobile payment technology to compete with each other and attempt to manage the country's labor shortage.

For banks and financial institutions, the wave of the future is using technology to optimize, not eliminate, their cash-handling processes, writes Diebold Nixdorf's Devon Watson.

Abercrombie & Fitch and Klarna are following a successful launch of short-term installment loans on apparel in Germany by adding more markets.

By turning compatibility into a nonissue, APIs help enable open banking, which has the potential to offer core banking services such as payment initiation or account balances through APIs, writes JPMorgan Chase's Stephen Markwell.

H&M will enable Klarna as a payment option in its 580 U.S. stores beginning this fall, building on a partnership the two Swedish companies established last year.

As blockchain use cases grow, retailers are seeing more reasons to use the distributed ledger technology for payments.

AI can ease shortfalls in legacy processing and risk systems, contends Deep Labs' Michael Lynch

Fraudsters are getting clever about beating authentication for returning users, says NuData Security's Robert Capps

Compliance can be complex and expensive, but failure puts merchants at risk, says FIME's Christian Damour.

Hackers are flocking to loyalty and rewards programs, pushing marketers to embed extra fraud technology to stem financial losses.

Large U.S. banks and merchants are finally working together to support contactless payments. But two of retail's biggest chains, Walmart and Kroger, aren't on board, and for good reason.

Amazon’s move pressures other merchants to add speed to e-commerce delivery while adding a few more steps to vet payments, writes Monica Eaton-Cardone, COO of Chargebacks911 and CIO of its parent company Global Risk Technologies

U.S. merchants need to do their research now, seek independent legal advice, and work with their payments provider to determine their exact needs and next steps in order to stay compliant and not risk losing revenue, says Worldpay's Jonathan Dranko.

Banks don't compete with each other enough to effectively lead the move to faster payments in the U.S., argues CMSPI's Mark Horwedel.

In a bid to keep pace with coffee arch-rival Starbucks’ delivery and mobile order-ahead services, Dunkin’ is working with Grubhub to roll out New York delivery.

Both are useful, but each has specialties in protecting different types of transaction processes, according to Rambus Payments' Andre Stoorvogel.

One of Target's high-profile payment outages this weekend stemmed from a problem at one of NCR's data centers, the big box retailer says.

Target in the past 48 hours suffered a pair of unrelated point of sale outages that had at least one thing in common — they resulted in consumers scrambling for a contingency that would have been little problem as recently as four or five years ago.

Cashierless stores have generated a lot of attention, but there’s a heavy lift to ensure the concept works outside of the relatively controlled environment of beta tests and proof-of-concept stores.