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1.0KPOS InnovationWhy Better POS Is Vital To Saving SMB Retail
New Orleans, home to the PYMNTS Bureau of Temperate Winter, is loved and sometimes reviled for being behind the times on many...
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1.9KPayment MethodsSamsung, Mobeewave Partner On Contactless POS
Samsung has announced a partnership with Mobeewave for NFC-enabled contactless payment services on its smartphones, Samsung said in a news release on Tuesday...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsCannabis Cos’ Financial Struggles Spread Far Beyond The POS
When considering the financial services (FinServ) challenges of the legal cannabis sector, the biggest point of friction that almost always comes to...
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4.5KPOS InnovationMax Levchin On The Future-Present Of Everywhere POS Lending
When Affirm launched in February 2013, the point-of-sale (POS) financing marketplace in the U.S. was largely an empty greenfield wherein PayPal Co-Founder...
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2.7KPOS InnovationNCR Rolls Out Subscription To Full-Service Restaurant POS Platform
NCR has launched an all-in-one subscription solution to help restaurants use its Aloha Essentials more efficiently, NCR announced in a press release...
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4.5KResTechTouchBistro Expands Platform; Adds Reservations, Analytics
TouchBistro unveiled the rollout of its reservation and guest management platform, TouchBistro Reservations, with the goal of helping restauranteurs enhance every guest experience....
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2.2KB2B PaymentsSquare Warns Glitch May Prevent Transfers To Biz Bank Accounts
Payments technology company Square has acknowledged a technical glitch that prevented one small business in Toronto, Canada, from receiving funds in its...
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2.0KWearablesFibank, Mastercard Team For Garmin Pay Transactions In Bulgaria
First Investment Bank (Fibank), Mastercard and Garmin have partnered for the Garmin Pay watch in Bulgaria, Fibank announced in a press release...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsDeep Dive: Using AI To Solve The $4.2T Fraud Problem
Global fraud’s price tag reached $4.2 trillion last year. The Securing B2B Payments Report includes a Deep Dive outlining how learning technologies...
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2.4KRestaurant innovationTouchBistro Lands $119M To Expand Restaurant POS Tech
Restaurant POS and payments firm TouchBistro has raised CDN $158 million (U.S. $119.24 million) in a Series E funding round led by...
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3.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsUS Bank Buys Talech To Boost Digital Expertise
U.S. Bank announced that it has acquired talech, a software company that offers an integrated point-of-sale (POS) system for small and medium-sized...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsSquare, TSB Bank Team Up For Suite Of SMB Services
Point-of-sale technology firm Square is teaming up with U.K. bank TSB Bank to offer a suite of financial services to joint small...
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5.3KDigital PaymentsSquare’s Loss Of Key Customer Concerns Wall Street
Silicon Valley’s mobile payments company Square Inc. is causing ripples of concern on Wall Street as the competition closes in and one...
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2.7KPoint of SaleBarclaycard And TouchBistro Partner For POS Payments
Barclaycard and TouchBistro have teamed up for point-of-sale (POS) solutions meant to improve customers’ experience in U.K. restaurants, according to a release....
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6.7KRetailUsing Data To Increase Checkout Conversions — In-Store
Retailers and grocers want to streamline the in-store checkout experience and increase conversions. Diebold Nixdorf's Carl von Sydow tells Karen Webster transactional data...
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3.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Venezuelan Department Stores To Launch Blockchain POS; Blockchain Analysis Firm Debuts Real-Time Fraud Alerts
Blockchain firm Pundi X has announced that Venezuela’s largest chain of department stores will implement the XPOS, the blockchain-powered point-of-sale device, across...
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4.4KLoansCiti Pilots Credit Card Installment Loans Down Under
Citi Australia wants in on the burgeoning buy now, pay later market and is launching a new installment loan product with Kogan...
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3.5KPayments InnovationSquare Launches Orders API
To allow developers to build a solution that lets sellers send and manage orders online, in-person and in-app, Square has announced the...
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5.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsDoorDash To Acquire Square’s Caviar For $410M
Popular delivery service DoorDash announced on Thursday (Aug. 1) that it has brokered an agreement to acquire Caviar, Square’s restaurant delivery platform,...
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10.4KInvestmentsOrdermark POS Startup Lands $18M For ResTech Integrations
Ordermark announced that it has raised $18 million in a Series B funding round led by Boulder-based Foundry Group. All of Ordermark’s...
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1.8KMPOS TrackerDeep Dive: How mPOS Tools Help Restaurants Compete
A recent study found that the average American ate out 185 times in 2018 — dropping from 216 times in 2000. Restaurants...
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3.6KDigital PaymentsVisa: Contactless Payments Big Winners At FIFA Women’s World Cup
Contactless payments are making their own big play in the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019, at least according to new Visa...
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1.3KPOS InnovationmyPOS Launches Its First Store In Belgium
European payments provider myPOS announced that it has opened a store in Antwerp, Belgium. The move comes four years after the company...
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6.5KVISAVisa Launches Installment APIs For Issuers And Merchants
The installment lending playing field just got more interesting — and global — today (June 27). Visa announced that it will bring...
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4.2KPOS InnovationUber Eats Taps Olo To Streamline Food Delivery
To integrate directly into the point-of-sale (POS) systems of leading restaurant brands through Olo Rails, Uber Eats has teamed up with digital food...
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3.2KInnovationPOS Payments At The Speed Of Sound (Waves)
Friction bedevils all types of retail — and that holds true for transactions inside stores or via eCommerce sites. At the same...
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1.9KRetailAlbertsons Implements Toshiba’s Self-Checkout Systems
Albertsons has announced that it is implementing Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions’ self-checkout systems to speed up checkout times and improve operational throughput...
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2.5KRetailBeyond Registers — What’s Next For Retail Store Payments?
Is the store register on its way out in favor of other retail and payments innovation? That’s probably a bridge too far...
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1.5KRetailTarget Back To Normal After Saturday System Outage
It wasn’t the best weekend for Target. The retail chain suffered through a register outage, but things apparently were getting back to...
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4.7KPoint 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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4.1KMobile 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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2.6KMPOS 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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4.1KPayment 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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6.6KPartnerships / 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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3.0KB2B 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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10.9KB2B 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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2.1KMPOS 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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5.5KNewsReal-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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2.5KToday 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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2.0KMPOS 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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2.6KRetailSMB 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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3.1KRetailWhat 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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9.2KPartnerships / 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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3.6KSmarter 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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4.2KB2B 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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3.6KPOS 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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4.2KB2B 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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7.9KInnovationDeep 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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5.6KDigital 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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8.0KInnovationWhy 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...
