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4.1KPayment MethodsSoftware Developed Specifically For The Smallest Businesses
Entrepreneurs can be a lot of things – CPA, however, isn’t often a common denominator. That’s why, as he explained in the...
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5.3KPayment MethodsNEW REPORT: Getting SMBs Off The Software Sidelines
Sometimes, even the best businesses, big and small, need a little help from software. Whether its finding and keeping loyal customers or...
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6.3KRetailDirect To Consumer: Brick-And-Mortar Stores As Warehouses
E-Commerce is having a big moment in retail. It’s causing retailers to do something that hasn’t been done in years — think outside...
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7.0KFraud PreventionWith CNP Fraud, Vigilance Is Only Part Of The Battle
With EMV changing the way payments are made in person, so, too, is the nature of fraud changing. Card not present (CNP) fraud...
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8.3KSouth East AsiaChina’s Amazing Cashless Conversion
While there is still much in the way of debate in the U.S. and the rest of the developed West about the...
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4.0KRetailDirect To Consumer: Ditching The Middleman
History tends to repeat itself. In retail, we’ve seen this happen time and again. The latest aspect of retail to rear its...
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13.6KRetailSay Hello To The New Retail Intermediary
“There is also no question that doing business with [XXX] can give a supplier a fast, heady jolt of sales and market...
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10.5KSecurity & FraudThe Part Of Fraud That’s On The Decline
Catching fraudsters isn’t as easy as just checking the IP address of an order anymore. Today’s fraudsters are smart, well-funded and coordinated,...
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4.1KRetailShopify Adds eBay Support For Merchants
Shopify, the eCommerce platform out of Canada, has inked a deal with eBay to enable merchants to sell directly through eBay. According...
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5.5KRetailDirect To Consumer: Impact On Consumer Expectations
Cutting out the middleman has helped many retailers provide a quicker experience for consumers. Some may argue that it also enhances the...
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7.1KBitcoinRetail Bitcoin Acceptance Drops … Even More
Using bitcoin isn’t exactly the frictionless ‘Uber Experience,’ most consumers are after. The cryptocurrency bitcoin has its fans, its detractors, and its...
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12.8KDigital PaymentsPayFacs Are The New ISOs
Once upon a time, merchants had direct contractual agreements with the acquirers who signed them up to accept payments. The process was...
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11.9KCashIdea Bank Is Driving ATM Innovation — Literally, In A BMW
Cash is one of the more underrated players in the payments and commerce ecosystem. It’s often declared dead, innovators of all stripes...
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6.9KeCommerceVantiv On Why Electronic Payments Are SMBs’ Next Natural Evolution
While there are many reasons why small merchants should be able to take digital and online payments — including better conversion rates, wider...
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11.5KMobile CommerceWhat Should Be Inside Your Mobile Wallet (Strategy)
Whereas mostly a concept only really understood by early adopter and tech enthusiasts a few years ago, these days mobile wallets have...
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8.0KMastercardMastercard’s Bid To Reinvent mPOS
Say mPOS and an image of a phone and a dongle probably flash across your mind. But what if all a merchant needed...
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10.1KData DriversBridging Blockchain’s Comprehension Gap
Bitcoin — and the technology that enables it — has certainly had a rather fast trip from obscurity to mainstream awareness. In January 2009,...
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5.7KPayments InnovationVerifone’s Terminal (Times Two) Reinvention
Last week Verifone and airport kiosk and IT specialists SITA announced a deal that will see Verifone payment-enable airport self-service kiosks at every airport terminal in the...
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6.2KPayment MethodsiZettle Makes Invoicing mPOSsible
iZettle is announcing today that it has added two more arrows into its SMB quiver: local mobile payment solutions and invoicing. We talked to iZettle Co-Founder...
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Some Amazon Merchants Find Solace On Walmart’s Marketplace
Amazon, the eCommerce giant, is seeing some merchants frustrated with the inability to stand out in a crowded shopping marketplace and turn to...
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4.6KPayment MethodsIn Payments, Closed and Open, Global and Local
One month into his new gig as CEO of AEVI, Nelson Holzner tells PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that technology — strengthening the ever-evolving...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsiPayment Links Merchants To SMB Lender RapidAdvance
Alternative SMB lender RapidAdvance is linking up with payments and processing company iPayment to expand its reach. The companies announced their partnership this...
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5.1KSecurity & FraudShattering Merchants’ Information Silos In The Fight Against Fraud
Fraudsters are tricky, and fraudsters are fast. But for merchants, the fraud management battle is a winnable one. Companies have an arsenal...
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4.1KRetailSnapChat Fresh Stories Show U Supermarkets’ Shoppers Where Fish Came From, Guarantee Freshness
For grocery shoppers who value “fresh,” there’s nothing fresher than a SnapChat story — after all, they’ve only got a shelf life...
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7.5KSecurity & FraudFor Retailers, Guarding The Consumer (Data)
Account takeovers are on the rise, and retailers face the dual challenge of keeping consumer data safe while making sure authentication processes...
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6.5KRetailSkava And The Power Of Consumer Intent
That retail is changing rapidly — and that many of its oldest and most established players are struggling to keep pace — is...
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7.9KMPOS TrackerNEW REPORT: mPOS And The Merchant Omnichannel Juggling Act
Modern technology has given retail merchants a multitude of new tools to help run their businesses, but it’s also given them plenty...
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8.5KMerchant InnovationAre Card-Linked Offers Reemerging?
The CardLinx Association released new data from the 2017 Card-Linking and O2O Industry Annual Survey, which showed 50 percent growth in online-to-offline ads. A...
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5.9KOmnicommerceFour Ways To Make Omnicommerce Pay
How omni-readi are merchants today, and — in an age of digital driving all dimensions of commerce — how should merchants be thinking about...
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5.7KVantivWhy Millennials Love Subscriptions
When it comes to buying subscriptions, there is something of a generation gap emerging — at least when it comes to products, according...
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8.7KVISAVisa’s Vision For Digital Commerce Dashboards
The commerce life of a consumer is becoming more digital by the day, given the proliferation of mobile wallets, eCommerce destinations and...
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8.2KConsumer FinanceBringing Financing Down To Size
Merchants and consumers alike have a host of reasons to love financing. Consumers get to purchase more or better than their cash...
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7.1KEMVIntroducing 1-Second EMV
The problem with EMV for most consumers and merchants comes down to speed, Visa and Index have learned. The change in hand...
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4.4KStartupsApexx Organizes Merchant Solutions Marketplace
Apexx, a FinTech startup, is reportedly launching in London, aiming to create a transparent marketplace in which merchants can browse and plug into...
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8.9KMatchmakersHelping Acquirers Embrace An App-Centric Future
The historical relationship between merchants, acquirers and ISOs was fairly simple — it was often based on bundling payments processing around POS...
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7.5KPOS InnovationVerifone CEO On Retail’s Future
Though much attention these days is given to the plight of retails in a digitizing world, in his fireside chat with Karen...
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5.1KMobile CommerceLevelUp On Making Mobile Order Ahead Pay
The benefits of mobile order ahead are well documented, says Emma Beckerle, director of Client Services at LevelUp, as consumer satisfaction and...
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4.7KPartnerships / AcquisitionsRegulators Say A-OK For Mastercard’s VocaLink Acquisition
Done deal. Mastercard’s proposed acquisition of U.K. payments technology firm VocaLink has received approval from regulators, with the deal expected to close...
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7.7KPlatform PaymentsPayment Acceptance, Key Hurdle To SMB Success
What can help SMBs looking to optimize their omnichannel offerings? According to Ecwid’s VP of Direct Business Sridhar Nagarajan, payments is smack...
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7.0KPayments InnovationFirst Data CEO Bets On Data, First, For Merchants To Score Payments
Can merchants find their way into the end zone, scoring points with customers? In an Innovation Project 2017 fireside chat with PYMNTS’...
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3.5KMarket ConditionsMoving Beyond The Crowded ‘Big Short’ Trade On Malls
It may have been relatively easy pickings, the so-called “mall short.” But on Wall Street, crowded trades can become traps, when sentiment...
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7.3KSecurity & FraudWells Fargo Identifies Fraud, Aggressive Tactics In Credit Card Processing Unit
Wells Fargo has reportedly overhauled the credit card processing business due to an internal inquiry that found some of its employees were...
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3.0KMobile CommerceStripe of Turkey Iyzico Completes $15M VC Round Of Funding
Iyzico, the Turkish startup that enables eCommerce sites and other apps to accept online payments, completed a $15 million round of fundraising...
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4.0KSecurity & FraudSupreme Court Opts Not To Restore $7.25B Settlement Between Visa, Mastercard and Merchants
The Supreme Court yesterday decided not to restore a $7.25 billion settlement between credit card networks Visa and Mastercard and merchants over...
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7.1KAmazon PaymentsAmazon Pay, BigCommerce Partner For Speedier Checkouts
BigCommerce announced that it will add Amazon Pay to enable retailers to deliver a faster checkout for their Amazon customers. The company...
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4.7KPayment MethodsVantiv Processes Most Debit, Credit Transactions In US
As it marks its five-year anniversary as a publicly traded company, Vantiv announced in a press release that it now processes more...
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7.0KPayment MethodsFirst Data Buys Acculynk To Expand Its eCommerce Offerings
First Data, the commerce-enabling technology company, announced Thursday (March 16) it entered into an agreement to acquire Acculynk, an Atlanta-based technology company...
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3.9KRetailHalf Of Online Retailers Seek To Switch eCommerce Platforms
Today’s retailer is required to be quick and nimble with the ever-changing online shopping arena. Due to the 24/7, fast-paced shopping of...
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2.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsChargebacks911 And ACI Join Forces To Protect Merchants
With the frequency of chargeback issuances becoming a growing cause of concern for merchants, two companies announced an alliance aimed at helping...
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3.3KPayment MethodsNational Retail Federation Says Law Violates Merchants’ Freedom Of Speech
The National Retail Federation (NRF) is calling for more transparency when it comes to credit card fees, urging the Supreme Court to...
