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8.4KMastercardMastercard’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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10.3KData 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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6.0KPayments 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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6.6KPayment 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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4.9KPayment 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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4.1KB2B 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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5.5KSecurity & 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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4.5KRetailSnapChat 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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7.7KSecurity & 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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6.9KRetailSkava 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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8.6KMPOS 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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9.1KMerchant 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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6.2KOmnicommerceFour 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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6.3KVantivWhy 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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9.3KVISAVisa’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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8.7KConsumer 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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7.8KEMVIntroducing 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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4.6KStartupsApexx 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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9.2KMatchmakersHelping 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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7.9KPOS 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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5.4KMobile 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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5.0KPartnerships / 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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8.1KPlatform 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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7.3KPayments 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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3.7KMarket 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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7.7KSecurity & 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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3.2KMobile 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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4.2KSecurity & 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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7.5KAmazon 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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5.0KPayment 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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8.0KPayment 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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4.2KRetailHalf 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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2.5KPartnerships / 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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3.5KPayment 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...
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5.2KeCommerceeCommerce 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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5.4KEMVMerchant 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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3.6KInnovationViber 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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4.8KSecurity & FraudFor 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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5.5KMatchmakersReaching 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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8.5KSecurity & FraudNew 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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9.6KPoint of SaleCayan 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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3.6KNewsAmex’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...
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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...
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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...
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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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2.7KNewsEMV 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...
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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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3.2KMerchant InnovationGroupon 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...
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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...
