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1.5KPoint of SaleStripe Makes Terminal Available Across The US
Stripe has announced that Stripe Terminal, a set of SDKs, APIs, and pre-certified card readers that lets users accept in-person payments, is...
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2.5KMobile PaymentsSquare Integrates Food Delivery Services Into POS
Square is releasing new order management integrations for Square for Restaurants, which will allow orders from DoorDash, Postmates and management platform Chowly...
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1.5KMPOS TrackerWhy Pride Vendors Are Forgoing Cash For mPOS
With events rolling out across the globe celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month throughout June, vendors are preparing to triple their average sales, while...
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2.3KPayment MethodsVisa: EMV Drives POS Counterfeit Fraud Down 76 Pct
Visa said this week that as acceptance of EMV cards has gained traction in the U.S., counterfeit fraud, measured in dollars for...
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4.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsWarburg Pincus In Talks To Buy NCR
NCR, the payments company that makes self-service kiosks, point-of-sale terminals and automated teller machines, among other payment devices, has reportedly tapped Bank...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsWhy The Back Office Should Pay Attention To The POS
The journey of digitizing the enterprise created a whole new set of unique challenges in business operations. One of the largest was...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsToast Steps Into Restaurant Payroll
Restaurant technology firm Toast is stepping into the payroll sphere with its Toast Payroll & Team Management offering, it was announced on...
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1.7KMPOS TrackerDeep Dive: Tackling mPOS Solutions’ Security Challenges
Small and micro merchants that would otherwise have been priced out of the market by traditional, fixed POS systems have seen success...
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4.4KNewsReal-Time Payments, Mastercard And Visa Deals Dominate This Week’s News
At the end of another busy week, it can pay to look back at some of the biggest recent news in payments...
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1.9KToday In DataCelebrating Small Business Week With Innovation
A little under half of the American workforce is employed by small businesses, and the majority of those workers are employed by...
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1.6KMPOS TrackerHow mPOS Helps Convention Vendors Meet Goals And Gain Insight
When vendors set up shop at the three-day, 25,000-attendee, annual Anime Boston event, it’s not enough to just have the right stock...
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1.9KRetailSMB Retail Innovation: Payments And Inventory Boost Prospects
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em – so goes the motto for pragmatic surrender. In retail, the corollary to that might...
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1.9KRetailWhat Does Innovation Mean For Small Hospitality And Food Service Businesses?
Small businesses might be optimistic about the future. In the accommodation and food services industries, they are also ready to innovate. According...
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4.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsNCR Acquires Restaurant POS Firm
NCR, an Atlanta-based payments technology company, has acquired Texas P.O.S., a Houston-based provider of point-of-sale (POS) solutions for restaurants and merchants, according...
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2.2KSmarter PaymentsDeep Dive: The Risk-Reducing Case For Push Payments
The following Deep Dive explores what’s driving interest in push payments, and where the technology may smooth out and secure consumer payments,...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsPundi X White Labels Digital Token Tech For Corporates
Blockchain payments company Pundi X has announced plans to launch Open Platform, a tool to enable developers and businesses to create blockchain...
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2.9KPOS InnovationShopify Launches New Retail Hardware Collection
Shopify announced it has launched a new retail hardware collection to improve in-person shopping for some of the world’s fastest-growing brands and...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsFirst Abu Dhabi Bank Debuts UAE Payroll Card
United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based First Abu Dhabi Bank is rolling out a payroll card solution for the market via its Mercury payment...
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7.1KInnovationDeep Dive: Competition Brings Innovation Into Focus
Merchants in both the food and accommodation space are interested in investing innovation to stay competitive. However, these merchants offer relatively few...
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5.0KDigital PaymentsSquare Teams With Washington Nationals On In-Seat Concessions
Payments company Square has partnered with the Washington Nationals and Levy Restaurants to let fans order concession menu items right from their...
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7.0KInnovationWhy Hotels And Restaurants Struggle With POS Innovation
When it comes to implementing innovation, trying and succeeding are two different things. This is a fact that hotels and restaurants know...
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5.2KMastercardMastercard’s Kirkpatrick: Transit Is The Ticket To Everyday Spend
The current best-in-class method of payment for a ride on a subway in any American city works just fine – until it...
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6.0KPoint of SaleSquare Revamps Online Retail Store, POS App
Square has two new offerings: the revamped Square Online Store and Square For Retail, introduced in an announcement by the company on Wednesday...
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3.0KMPOS TrackerDeep Dive: How Restaurant Operators Are Driving mPOS Evolution
Restaurants have traditionally served in-house patrons only, and full tables used to mean wait times for those looking for meals. Next came...
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4.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsInComm Enters Lottery Industry With Linq3 Buy
Payments technology company InComm has acquired Linq3 Technologies with the purpose of entering the lottery industry, the company announced on Tuesday (March...
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3.1KToday In DataMatching Ad Hoc Workers With Employers In The UK
Labour xchange is matching ad hoc employees with employers in the U.K. In addition, retailers are ranking mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) adoption high...
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5.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsNCR Expands Hospitality Reach With BEC Buy
NCR announced late last week the acquisition of BEC, a provider of hospitality point-of-sale (POS) technology based in Denver. In a press release, NCR...
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8.1KRetailGiving Health And Beauty Merchants A POS Makeover
Consumers have thousands of health and beauty brands to choose from, and that pool has only grown larger as the global economy...
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2.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsAEVI, Secure Trading In White-Label POS Pact
On Tuesday (Feb. 5), AEVI and Secure Trading/acquiring.com said they have teamed up to offer a POS solution that focuses on white-labeled,...
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12.7KMPOS TrackerHow mPOS Helps Bag More Groceries
Customers expect unified retail experiences as they shop between in-store and online. Retailers and supermarkets are listening, and extending mobile channels into...
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8.3KGlobal PaymentsLightspeed Rolls Out Integrated System; Central JD Fintech Unveils Dolfin Wallet
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the roll out of a new...
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8.8KPayment MethodsMicrosoft Wallet App To Be ‘Retired’ On Feb. 28
Microsoft Wallet app, the company’s cashless mobile payment app, will be discontinued at the end of February, the company said on its...
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7.2KB2B PaymentsFundbox Pay Expands To B2B Marketplaces
Financing purchases at the point of sale is gaining traction in B2C eCommerce, so why not B2B? Fundbox is bringing Fundbox Pay...
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4.9KPayment MethodsGiving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost
Contactless has yet to catch on in the United States, despite years of promotional efforts and the success of the payment method...
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5.0KPoint of SaleNew Square Card Promises Instant Funds To SMBs
You know your stature by the enemies you make, right? That’s the old saying at least. Well, “enemy” might be too strong...
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4.5KRetailMobile Checkout, Resetting Store Experiences And Fairway Market’s Fight To Stay Relevant In NYC
While innovative grocery has been in the news heavily over the last several years — with seemingly every name in the game...
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4.8KEarningsWells Fargo Credit Card Purchases Grow 5 Pct In Q4
A U.S. Federal Reserve asset cap on Wells Fargo will last all year instead of through the first half, said the bank’s...
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6.9KPOS 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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4.8KEcosystemsChinese P2P Falls As Other Payment Ecosystems Expand
Thanks to a nationwide crackdown on peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in China, a move that came after a series of multibillion dollar scams...
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2.4KPoint of SaleRoche Bros. Partners With Toshiba On POS Systems
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions has announced that it will be integrating its TCx™ 300 point-of-sale (POS) systems at all of the Massachusetts...
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4.7KOmnicommerceNMI CEO On Payments Powering SMB Omnichannel Expansion
“Easier said than done” is a saying that can apply to many things: running a marathon, losing those last five pounds, eating...
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4.3KMobile PaymentsSquare Launches In-App Payments Kit For Sellers
Payment company Square, popular for its square-shaped mobile card reader, has released an in-app payments software development kit (SDK) that will give...
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6.6KSafety 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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13.9KPayments Innovation2019: What To Take Forward And What To Leave Behind
Welcome to the first Monday of 2019. According to the Chinese calendar, 2019 is the “Year of the Pig” – which may...
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5.7KPOS InnovationMoving From POS To Point Of Interaction
One size never fits all in retail — so why should it be any different with payments? Commerce is done across brick-and-mortar...
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9.3KCommentaryVisa: Why Consumers Are In Control At The POS
Carleigh Jaques, SVP, global head of merchant digital products at Visa, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. For...
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3.5KPodcastListen Up: Best PYMNTS Podcasts Of 2018
Don’t think of them as mere podcasts — though PYMNTS certainly does a lot of podcasts, discussing with payments and commerce experts...
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4.6KPersonnelSquare Talks Temp Payroll
The holiday season always brings with it a major crush of hiring for temporary employees — and the year 2018 was widely...
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17.2KPayments InnovationDid Payments 2018 Predictions Come True?
In about two weeks, 2018 will be one for the history books. And from a payments and commerce perspective, it really has...
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4.5KPayment MethodsJetPay Payment Processing Goes Live Via NCR
Urban Eatz in Richardson, Texas, has become the first NCR customer to use JetPay payment processing through its point-of-sale (POS) software. Back...