Retailers

As Congress moves to spur more coin production, banks and retailers are running campaigns urging consumers to empty their piggy banks to get more change into circulation.

EBay has hired Discover’s top U.S. cards executive, Julie Loger, for the newly created position of global chief growth officer.

To address a growing demand for contactless payment methods during the coronavirus pandemic, 7-Eleven has launched a mobile wallet for customers to use at participating U.S. stores.

In a bid to fuel online sales, Barclaycard is partnering with Amazon in Germany to offer installment lending to overcome the country’s low credit card ownership rates.

The Interac debit network is expanding online and in-store options for Walmart customers throughout Canada, looking to have new technology in place by spring of 2021.

Michael Moeser, Senior Analyst at PaymentsSource, talks to Ginger Siegel, North America Small Business Lead at Mastercard, about how smaller shops are managing through the coronavirus pandemic.

It's not just payment habits that are changing, but the very nature of what people are willing to buy one another.

Michael Moeser, senior analyst at PaymentsSource, talks to Chris Lybeer, chief strategy officer at Revel, about the trends driving digital payments in the restaurant industry.

Small and midsize merchants in North America continue to struggle with the effects of COVID-19 on their bottom lines, but those who have developed an online presence and made changes to in-store payments have found the process to be a vital step.

Online fraud typically spikes when holiday shopping begins in November, but so-called friendly fraud poses another big threat this year with the pandemic pushing more consumers — and inexperienced merchants — to online sales channels.