merchants

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  Payment Methods

  National 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...

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  eCommerce

  eCommerce Merchants Are Wary Of Cross-Border Sales

  The election of Donald Trump, the exit of the U.K. from the European Union and a declining economy in China are resulting...

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  EMV

  Merchant Associations Want Visa To Remedy EMV Rules

  Merchant associations that represent tens of thousands of U.S. merchants are calling on Visa to provide steps to remedy what they say...

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  Innovation

  Viber Launches Ability To Chat With Businesses

  Viber, the widely popular messaging app, announced Wednesday (Nov. 9) the launch of Public Accounts, which enables users to connect with businesses...

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  Security & Fraud

  For Chargebacks, A 50 bp Rule Of Thumb

  Chargebacks can sink profits and reputations — and more often than not they're tied to fraud. Once they hit 50 bps of...

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  Matchmakers

  Reaching Toward Critical Mass in Payments

  In payments, innovation is as much as art as science – in terms of finding the balance between buyers and sellers, and...

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  8.2K

  Security & Fraud

  New Survey Says Only 37 Percent Of Merchants EMV-Ready

  The EMV numbers are in on the merchant side, and they are rather anemic. The Strawhecker Group, which is billed as a...

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  Point of Sale

  Cayan To Retailers: Put Your POS In The Cloud

    It’s clearly not business as usual in the point-of-sale world. Not only are customers expecting easier, faster and more secure methods...

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  News

  Amex’s Merchant Steering Rule Back In Play

  The wake of last week’s ruling that American Express can continue to implement its no-steering policy — in which the payments giant can...

• Money 20/20

  Processing.com’s Take On Merchant Acquiring Trends

  The PYMNTS team caught up with experts in the payments field to ask them their views on industry trends, predictions for the...

• News

  What’s Behind PayPal’s SMB Price Hike?

  Small businesses in the very long tail of PayPal’s merchant portfolio will find that the cost of getting paid will change effective...

• Mobile Commerce

  Visa Checkout Now Tops 6 Million Users

  Visa’s online payments service, Visa Checkout, may just have celebrated its first birthday, but it’s on a steady march to secure merchant partnerships...

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  News

  EMV Card Shipments Jump 27 Percent In 2014

  EMV card issuance jumped by more than 27 percent in 2014 over the previous year, with key growth coming from the United...

• News

  Here A Token, There a Token…

  It’s a tokenization world and merchants are just living in it. TokenEx CEO Alex Pezold says that’s sort of a problem –...

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  Merchant Innovation

  Groupon OS Will Add Beacons And Smartphones

  Groupon had its share of positive financials to report on in its first quarter earnings yesterday (May 5), including $750.4 million in revenue...

• Hmmm

  Discover CEO: EMV Rollout Will Be Rocky

  During Discover’s first-quarter earnings call with analysts yesterday (April 21), CEO David Nelms offered something of a reality check on the coming...

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  News

  The Next Payments Disruption

    Sales tax is a minor annoyance to most consumers who have to remember to do the mental math when calculating the...

• Merchant Innovation

  Former Mozilla Leader Joins Groupon’s Product Side

  Groupon added two new faces to its executive team — one of them with a specific knack for the tech industry. The...

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  News

  Which Merchants Made The Latest Apple Pay Batch?

  Apple added 14 new retailers to its steadily growing list of merchants supporting Apple Pay after the announcements made at the Spring...

• News

  PayPal Revs Up Retail Services

  The National Retail Federation’s “Big Show” came with big announcements for PayPal as it unveiled its new retail services aimed at increasing...

• Mobile Commerce

  Black Friday Observes A More Knowledgable Consumer

  Consumers may be getting the gist of the true benefits when it comes to online shopping, as this year’s Black Friday became...

• Controversial

  Why Some Small Merchants Prefer Cards to Cash

  Ever heard of a small merchant wanting to flip cash paying customers to cards? Well, that’s what happens, Womply says, when small...

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  International

  PayPal Wants to Boost eCommerce in the Middle East

  PayPal announced that they will partner with Cairo Amman Bank to help boost ecommmerce.

• B2B Payments

  OTI Launches Fuel-Payments Solution

  OTI has launched a consumer-oriented automatic payment solution for gas stations. EasyFuel Plus is similar to an OTI offering for commercial purposes....

• Featured Stories

  Study: One In 10 Merchants Accepted mPayments In 2013

  About 10 percent of all merchants accepted mobile payments last year. This represented a jump of 50 percent compared to 2012 levels,...