Point of Sale

Mobile Commerce
Apple Pay Nearing Triple Digit Milestone
March 04, 2015

For Apple Pay, it’s 98 and counting. Apple confirmed on Tuesday (March 3) that 17 more financial institutions have gone live with full Apple Pay support in the past two weeks, bringing the total just shy of the century mark, 9to5 Mac reported. Get the...

Cybersecurity
Merchants Push For Tokenization Over EMV
March 04, 2015

Retailers are fed up with hearing from banks and credit unions that they don’t care about payment-card security and fraud, Bank Info Security reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Bread, Bananas And Building Better Customer Retention
March 03, 2015

Much like the consumers they serve, retailers have a habit of falling in love with newness when it comes to their customer base. Adding new names to the email list, attracting new foot traffic into physical stores, drawing new eyes to the website – companies...

PayPal Unveils Plans For NFC Card Readers
March 03, 2015

Almost two years after PayPal launched a handheld payment card reader for merchants in the U.K., that’s finally coming to the U.S. — and this time, it will support contactless payments and Apple Pay, too. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Do Android Pay, Google Wallet And Samsung Pay Have What It Takes To Win In...
March 02, 2015

Last week, there were a couple of major announcements in the world of mobile payments that suggest that the battle for supremacy in the mobile payments world is heating up –  and in a pretty big way. We’ll certainly hear and know lots more as...

Cybersecurity
69 Percent Of Cardholders Not EMV Equipped
February 27, 2015

Banks still haven’t sent new EMV credit and debit cards to more than two-thirds of their customers despite a looming Oct. 1 deadline, according to a new poll from CreditCards.com. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

Company Profile
Inside MasterCard’s Masters Of Code Global Hackathons: Round 1
February 26, 2015

Earlier this month, MasterCard kicked off its first-ever Masters of Code competition in Sydney, Australia. The 10-city event will traverse the globe, pitting developers, designers and entrepreneurs in friendly competition, using MasterCard-supplied APIs to create the most innovative prototypes for next-generation commerce applications. Just after...

Wirecard Expands mPOS Payment Capabilities
February 25, 2015

Germany-based financial services and technology services company Wirecard is making point of sale payments more intelligent. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...

MasterCard’s Latest HCE Moves
February 25, 2015

MasterCard now has cloud-based in-store mobile payments live in 15 countries, with another 10 in the pipeline, the card brand announced on Tuesday (Feb. 24). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...