Retailers

Even as Amazon has expanded its cashierless Amazon Go stores to new cities, it has been careful to limit the size of each store as a concession to the limits of its technology. That constraint may soon be a thing of the past.

Walmart, Tractor Supply and Home Depot are among the retailers using cashierless checkout ad local sourcing to tailor services for specific communities, according to Marc Gorlin, CEO and founder of Roadie.

An invisible payment becomes a lot more visible when it’s compromised, making Marriott’s data breach a threat to one of the most important innovations in retail, which should scare everyone from Uber to Amazon.

A boost in chargebacks can put a damper on higher transaction volumes and digital shopping, according to Chris Marchand, vice president of business development at Verifi.

Phishing is a serious and growing problem in the financial services and payments industries, creating pressure to come up with advanced detection techniques, according to Adrien Gendre, chief solutions architect for Vade Secure.

Traditional screening solutions are not able to process such a huge influx of records quickly enough, creating a queue that the system has to work through, slowing down the customer experience, writes Vincent Gaudel, a compliance expert at Accuity.

Chinese payment companies have successfully lured merchants outside of China by enabling payments for Chinese tourists, a use case Tencent hopes will work in Japan, where rival Alipay lurks.

On five days starting with Thanksgiving and continuing through Cyber Monday customers purchased millions more products compared to the same period last year.

Atlanta-based Global Payments is working with startup InVision, a design company that works with companies like Google and Netflix, to design a portal that will allow merchants to quickly work with banks or customers to reconcile and troubleshoot transactions, including addressing disputes and chargebacks.

While apps are still a popular way for customers to order and pay, other options are emerging because they're a natural fit for restaurant patrons, many of whom are already heavy users of text, social media and voice technology.