Consumers have thousands of health and beauty brands to choose from, and that pool has only grown larger as the global economy...
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,...
Customers expect unified retail experiences as they shop between in-store and online. Retailers and supermarkets are listening, and extending mobile channels into...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the roll out of a new...
Microsoft Wallet app, the company’s cashless mobile payment app, will be discontinued at the end of February, the company said on its...
Financing purchases at the point of sale is gaining traction in B2C eCommerce, so why not B2B? Fundbox is bringing Fundbox Pay...
Contactless has yet to catch on in the United States, despite years of promotional efforts and the success of the payment method...
You know your stature by the enemies you make, right? That’s the old saying at least. Well, “enemy” might be too strong...
While innovative grocery has been in the news heavily over the last several years — with seemingly every name in the game...
A U.S. Federal Reserve asset cap on Wells Fargo will last all year instead of through the first half, said the bank’s...
In a move to target small and medium-sized businesses and hospitality companies, HP has announced it has teamed up with PayPal to...
Thanks to a nationwide crackdown on peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in China, a move that came after a series of multibillion dollar scams...
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions has announced that it will be integrating its TCx™ 300 point-of-sale (POS) systems at all of the Massachusetts...
“Easier said than done” is a saying that can apply to many things: running a marathon, losing those last five pounds, eating...
Payment company Square, popular for its square-shaped mobile card reader, has released an in-app payments software development kit (SDK) that will give...
The Reserve Bank of India has released guidelines for what it calls the “tokenization” of debit and credit card transactions, according to...
Welcome to the first Monday of 2019. According to the Chinese calendar, 2019 is the “Year of the Pig” – which may...
One size never fits all in retail — so why should it be any different with payments? Commerce is done across brick-and-mortar...
Carleigh Jaques, SVP, global head of merchant digital products at Visa, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. For...
Don’t think of them as mere podcasts — though PYMNTS certainly does a lot of podcasts, discussing with payments and commerce experts...
The holiday season always brings with it a major crush of hiring for temporary employees — and the year 2018 was widely...
In about two weeks, 2018 will be one for the history books. And from a payments and commerce perspective, it really has...
Urban Eatz in Richardson, Texas, has become the first NCR customer to use JetPay payment processing through its point-of-sale (POS) software. Back...
ShopKeep, a tablet-to-cloud and point-of-sale (POS) payment platform for retailers and restaurants, has closed a $65 million round of equity and debt...
So much is changing in retail and payments these days — the seemingly unstoppable rise of mobile, for instance, or the transformation...
The holiday shopping season is here — and to capture profits, retailers need to ensure that customers’ payment experiences are as smooth as...
The U.K. antitrust watchdog is looking into PayPal‘s acquisition of European startup iZettle, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). In May, PayPal...
It has been written that “to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose.” Seven years ago, when Mobeewave Co-founders...
Standard Cognition, which provides AI-powered autonomous checkout solutions for brick-and-mortar retailers, announced it has raised $40 million in Series A funding, bringing...
How to speed the checkout process? To echo an old Dustin Hoffman film, the answer may lie with one word: plastic. To...
To bring its products and services closer to local small and medium-sized businesses, European payments provider myPOS will be opening a new...
It’s not uncommon for brands to open permanent stores after experimenting with pop-ups, but Glossier is taking an innovative payments approach to...
For digitally native brands moving from the web to brick and mortar, startups are providing a platform to help with the transition....
Square's gross payment volumes surged 29 percent year over year and larger sellers, at volumes $125K and above, were a larger percent...
It’s been an up and down week on the stock market as earnings reports have piled in and investors have like, or...
It’s never easy being a mom-and-pop merchant, or a similarly small retailer, given the resources of the bigger rivals out there, along...
These days, it’s hard to even think of a restaurant operating without some massive presence in digital — not only an attractive website,...
Before 2009, when Square launched in the U.S., the world of payments wasn’t terribly friendly terrain for small and micro-businesses looking to...
In a sense, the ongoing battle for point-of-sale supremacy involves intimacy. Yes, intimacy. Maybe a diner prefers to have the waiter bring...
Square is dealing with fallout from its CFO’s upcoming departure, with shares in the company falling again on Thursday (October 12). The...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Norway’s Vipps selection of Inside Secure...
Well beyond bitcoin, blockchain is making inroads into the mainstream and cryptos are seeing a thaw when it comes to conducting commerce. ...
Today is Columbus Day, a celebration of Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of Americas 526 years ago. The “discovery” is in quotes for three...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Binance’s investment in Australian startup TravelbyBit to bring crypto...
Mobile payments at the pump? Made reality, the concept has the potential to save time and truly move life into the fast...
Contactless cards have been a big hit around the world. In the U.K., the European Union (EU) and Canada, contactless payments account for...
myPOS announced that it will open a store in Milan, Italy this week, its fourth brick-and-mortar location in Europe. This will be...
Stripe, the payments company, announced on Monday (Sept. 17) the launch of Stripe Terminal, a product that will enable online businesses and...
Chew on this: Food service businesses of all types demand fast and flexible payments, tackling issues as far flung as mobile order...
Food for thought: Quick service isn’t just for fast food. When it comes to the need for speed, transactions done with haste,...