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Next-Gen DebitHow The Pandemic Makes 90-Day Customer Histories A Fraud-Fighting Weakness
Consumers who are seeking to avoid exposing themselves or others to COVID-19 are turning to eCommerce where possible and are demanding touch-free...
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AppleEU Antitrust Probe Includes Apple Pay
Tuesday (June 16) is marking a bit of a one-two punch on the Continent for Apple. The European Union announced that it...
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Mobile PaymentsWill Contactless Move Credit Union Cards To Top Of Wallet?
Get ready for the contactless card surge. This holiday season may remind you of the “hurry up and wait” component of brick-and-mortar...
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RetailHow QSRs Are Driving Retail Innovation Via Emerging Tech
Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological...
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ResTechFacing The Fast Future Of QSR Payments Experiences
Make sure to bring more than your appetite when you dine out in the 2020s, especially at a quick-service restaurant (QSR). You...
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Payment MethodsPSCU Expects To Issue More Than 3M Contactless Cards In 2020
PSCU is prepared to handle what they predict will be a rush in 2020 to adopt contactless cards, the company said in...
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Restaurant innovationHow NFC Loyalty Is Changing The Way QSRs Approach Rewards
Creating dedicated, loyal customers is a constant challenge for competing eateries. Consumers want greater access to mobile tools and payments, even at...
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Restaurant innovationTrending: Malibu Poke Gets Personal With Facial Recognition To Order, Pay
U.S. consumers are increasingly turning to digital technology to place food orders. A recent study found online food delivery orders increased nearly...
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InnovationStarbucks Consumers In Japan Can Pay With NCF Pen
Starbucks has announced the release of an actual pen that consumers can use to pay at the register in Japan, according to...
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Digital PaymentsAs Banking Evolves, So Does The ATM
Evolving technology continues to provide consumers with new digital payment options, but does that mean the death of cash and the ATM...
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AppleNFC Slated For Major Upgrade With iOS 13 Release
Near-field communication (NFC) will receive a major upgrade when Apple releases iOS 13 this fall. While only iPhone apps were previously able...
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RetailIs The US On The Verge Of A Contactless Surge?
Near-field communication (NFC) technology isn’t exactly new. For some time now, retailers have been using it and radio frequency identification (RIFD) behind...
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RetailApple Teams With Bird Scooters, Bonobos
To reduce friction for mobile payments for purchases such as scooter rides and clothing, Apple is teaming up with partners such as...
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Payment MethodsWells Fargo Rolls Out Contactless Credit, Debit Cards
Wells Fargo announced Tuesday (April 2) the launch of contactless consumer credit and debit cards. In a press release, Wells Fargo said...
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Digital PaymentsWhy ‘Play Ball!’ Means So Much For Payments
Another baseball season has started, much to the delight of many consumers, including those insufferable and pretentious fans who consider football something...
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Payment MethodsNFC Forum Shares Specs For QR Codes Alternative
The NFC Forum, the standards and advocacy association for Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology, released its NFC Money Transfer Candidate Specification (NMT) on Tuesday...
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POS InnovationPayPal, HP Team On New POS
In a move to target small and medium-sized businesses and hospitality companies, HP has announced it has teamed up with PayPal to...
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Safety and SecurityRBI Releases Guidelines For Electronic Card Payments
The Reserve Bank of India has released guidelines for what it calls the “tokenization” of debit and credit card transactions, according to...
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Payment MethodsToneTag CEO Sounds Off On Payments At The Speed Of Sound
Talk about cashless and contactless. How about payments made at the speed of sound — to be specific, using encrypted sound waves...
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Security & FraudNXP Rolls Out Privacy-Enabled Tag Chips For IoT
NXP Semiconductors in late September introduced its latest NTAG DNA tag chip, providing privacy-enabled, multi-layered security for NFC and IoT authentication applications....
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Payment MethodsChase Pay Customers With Samsung Phones Can Link To Samsung Pay
JPMorgan Chase announced Friday (July 27) that Chase Pay customers with a Samsung Galaxy smartphone can link Chase Pay to Samsung Pay....
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Point of SaleNFC-Enabled POS Terminals Numbered Nearly 25M Worldwide In 2017
A new report has found that the global installed base of point-of-sale (POS) terminals grew to almost 109 million units in 2017....
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AppleApple Set To Launch New iPhone Wireless Chip That Can Unlock Doors
Apple is changing a wireless chip in the iPhone that will allow people to use the technology to securely unlock doors. The...
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Payment MethodsSamsung Pay And PayPal Power In-Store Payments
Brick-and-mortar retail has spent the last decade building bridges to the digital world so a new generation of digital consumers can move...
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Payment MethodsHow Contactless Payments Drive Retail’s In-Store Design
How to make contact with the idea of contactless? How to bring the mobile wallet to the U.S. in a way that...
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RetailSMBs Turn To Mobile Devices To Accept Payments In Face-To-Face Environments
The retail point-of-sale (POS) terminal market is no stagnant business. While it is currently a $15 billion industry, Global Market Insights is...
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Startup Check-InFitPay Launches Contactless Payment Bitcoin Coin
What if bitcoin were actually a coin? FitPay has made it one. Flip, a new contactless payment device that the startup just...
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Payments InnovationMobile Wallets: Where’s The S-Curve?
The classic product lifecycle that all of us had drilled into our heads in business school tells us that at the three-year...
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RetailLL Bean Brings The Blockchain Into Outdoor Apparel
One of the newest technologies in FinTech is coming to one of the oldest American outdoor gear brands. Now arriving at L.L....
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BitcoinNXT-ID Enables Pay With Bitcoin
Fit Pay, a unit of NXT-ID, announced news on Thursday (Feb. 8) of the launch of FlipTM, a contactless payment device for...
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Point of SaleVerifone Introduces Remote Payments
In an effort to enable merchants to accept payments from nearly anywhere in their stores, Verifone launched its e280 mobile point-of-sale (mPOS)...
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Payments InnovationPayments 2018: Think This — Not That
In 800 B.C., when people wanted to know the answer to “what’s next” about their personal futures, they flocked to Delphi and...
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POS InnovationMix And Match At The POS
No one knows what the future holds. In life, certainly, but especially in technology — and especially in payments technology. From wampum...
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FacebookFacebook Looks At The Face For In-Store Payments
Facebook may be gunning to introduce facial recognition software for in-store payments at retail locations, as presaged by a patent application published Thursday (Nov....
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POS InnovationUL Takes Testing To The API
On Tuesday (Oct. 24), UL Transaction Security announced news of the launch of its Web-Based Host Test Tool (wHTT), a payment host testing system...
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Payment MethodsWells Fargo Rolls Out Contactless Withdrawals At Thousands Of ATMs
Wells Fargo announced Tuesday (Oct. 10) it has rolled out a tap-and-pay near-field communication (NFC) functionally that works with more than 5,000...
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Payment MethodsHelping QSRs Shake FOMO
Don’t hang the pictures on the wall or fix the siding until you know the plumbing works. According to Karen Webster, that’s...
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Payment MethodsVisa Powering Payments on New Garmin Wearable Aims to Stop ‘Sweaty Money’
Keeping up with the wearables/payments/fitness players is a workout in and of itself. Add Garmin to the mix with a new device,...
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Payment MethodsCommanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes
It’s been said that change is the only constant in, well, you name it. The aphorism holds especially true for payments, an industry...
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Payment MethodsPay By Sound: It’s Back!
Sound travels at 767 miles per hour, so if you want a faster contactless payment, audio waves aren’t a bad vehicle for...
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Payment MethodsxPressTap: mPOS Without The Dongle
A payments solution that requires micromerchants to buy — and then wait for — special hardware isn’t much of a solution if...
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Payments InnovationWhat Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
A lot of exciting things have happened in payments — and commerce, more broadly — over the last three years. PayPal became pals with...
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Unattended RetailUSAT CEO On The Unattended Retail OS
Following the slow implosion of brick-and-mortar retail, what phoenix will rise from the ashes? Will the world be left to choose between...
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IPOUSA Technologies Eyes Public Offering
The payment technology service provider USA Technologies, Inc., (USAT) which powers integrated cashless and mobile transactions in self-service retail settings, may go public,...
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Data DiveData Dive: Three As Edition — Apple, Amazon And Android
The news cycle — which was a somewhat chaotic place last week, with a never-ending series of hearings on Capital Hill followed...
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NewsApple Is Opening Its NFC Chip To Third-Party Apps
Apple will enable third-party app developers to get access to the NFC chip inside the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus...
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Mobile PaymentsWells Fargo Announces Support for PayPal For In-Store Payments
Wells Fargo said Tuesday (April 18) that its customers will be able to use PayPal to make near-field communication (NFC) in-store payments...
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Payment MethodsCellum Rolls Out Payment Solution For Unbanked
Cellum, the mobile transactions solutions provider, announced Wednesday (April 5) at the SMART Conference a new solution aimed at providing financial services...
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Payment MethodsMastercard Rolls Out Support Of Samsung Pay In UAE
Mastercard announced Tuesday (April 4) that Mastercard cardholders from select banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will now be able use...
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Payment MethodsApple Pay Is Now Live In Taiwan
Apple Pay is now available in Taiwan, making it the 14th market in which Apple’s payment app is available. According to a...
