Retailers

Discover Financial Services is partnering with the operator of Puerto Rico’s ATM and debit network as part of the payment card company’s ongoing effort to increase acceptance abroad by teaming with local networks.

Industry debates centering on the eventual U.S. conversion to EMV smart card acceptance at point-of-sale terminals have taken on several layers.

The Internal Revenue Service is hoping to keep merchants honest by checking up on their transaction volume. That’s fine, but the fallout is affecting independent sales organizations, their acquirer partners and their merchant clients

In a move to open the e-commerce market between Taiwan and China, Taipei-based E. Sun Commercial Bank Ltd. has entered into a partnership with Alipay Inc., China’s leading online payment service provider.

A top official at Australia’s central bank says the institution will move to ban businesses in the country from imposing excessive credit card surcharges on their customers.

It sounded like a good idea 10 years ago, but not much makes sense any longer regarding Europe establishing a third card scheme to compete with Visa Inc. and MasterCard Worldwide.

EMerchantPay Group Ltd. is partnering with WorldTicket to provide smaller airline operators an easier way to accept and process online payments for plane fares, the online payment processor announced March 19.

Premier Health Exchange Inc. has formed a business division to deliver electronic payments to health care providers upon settlement of valid and payable medical claims and reconciliation, the provider of health care cost management services announced March 19.

One of South Korea’s major card issuers faces a boycott beginning April 1 from the country’s large small-retailer segment upset over the institution favoring a larger retailer with a much lower card-acceptance fee.

How long will U.S. merchants wait to fully upgrade their point-of-sale terminals to the EMV standard?

Direct-response merchants, including many that sell products online and through TV infomercials, are reaping tangible benefits from the Durbin amendment that cut their debit card transaction costs.

Providing security to block cybercriminals determined to steal payment data represents a complex task involving software applications and connections throughout a network.

When Discover Financial Services last week announced its EMV smart card conversion timetable for the United States, it again stoked debate over whether card networks and issuers should embrace the chip-and-PIN or chip-and-signature formats.

Hewlett Packard Co. has developed payment software-as-a-service to help merchants reduce the scope of Payment Card Industry data security standards compliance and improve business processes, the business technology provider announced March 19.

Transaction Network Services Inc. is launching a mobile-payment gateway service for its customers, the company announced March 19.

Tony Zazula made headlines for banning cash from his upscale New York restaurant. Now he's trying to bring that policy to the masses.

After a smooth beta test, the CEO of Viableware’s Rail system is confident the tableside payment platform will be in almost 700 restaurants by the end of 2012.

Discover Financial Services is the latest card network to announce a conversion plan for the secure EMV chip-card standard in the U.S.

First Data Corp. is entering the fray of technology vendors offering merchants and retail banks the ability to issue digital deals.

United Kingdom-based payment processor Streamline has added more speed to its service through new gateway software for its customers.