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930Mobile CommerceWalmart Tests New Mobile Checkout Technology
Walmart announced on Thursday (April 19) that it is testing Check Out With Me, a new service that will speed up checkout...
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1.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsPayPal Teams With ebizmarts To Integrate With Magento
PayPal is working with point-of-sale (POS) company ebizmarts to help retailers offer both POS and digital payments. According to news from Mobile Payments Today, PayPal’s...
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2.0KMobile CommerceWorldpay: ‘Future-Proofing’ The POS
The next big thing is not often easy to spot. Sometimes, the thing that everyone sees coming fails to actually show up....
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1.3KB2B PaymentsHP Enters Cannabis Enterprise Software Market With Flowhub
HP is reportedly stepping into the cannabis industry with a new partnership to provide businesses with financial management software, according to The Washington...
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1.7KPayment MethodsPaya President: Integrated Payments And What Matters Most
Buy vs. build -- or partner? The lines between software companies and payments firms are blurring, which means strategy must change, too....
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1.2KToday In DataAdjusting To The New Normal
The only constant in the world is change: whether it’s the changing shape of the EU, the resetting of rules on how...
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2.9KSecurity & FraudFighting Fraud By Finding Good Transactions Instead Of Bad Ones
The transition to the EMV chip in North America has been both a boon and a bit of a headache when it...
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3.6KMastercardMastercard’s Kirkpatrick: So Long, Farewell To Signature At The POS
Tomorrow, April 13, signing a receipt at the end of a Mastercard credit or debit transaction at the physical POS will become...
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1.2KPoint of SaleAdyen Partners With Mi9 For Merchant Payments Solution
Adyen has announced it is partnering with omnichannel retail solutions provider Mi9 Retail to allow merchants to accept payments through Adyen’s payments...
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2.1KAuthenticationRetailers Ready To Drop Credit Card Signatures
With fraud on the rise, credit card networks have realized that customer signatures are simply not a reliable way to authenticate someone’s...
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2.2KEMVKFC Partners With Ingenico Group For Payment Solution
To simplify its path to EMV card acceptance, and to reduce PCI compliance scope, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has migrated its payments system...
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7.8KVISAVisa Names The 50 Winners Of Visa Cashless Challenge
Visa, the payments company, announced Thursday (March 29) the 50 winners of the Visa Cashless Challenge, in which small businesses in the...
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4.8KPayment 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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2.4KPoint of SalePoint-Of-Sale Flexibility Inflates Spend
Talk to anyone in the U.S. credit space, and they can tell you about their access to consumer information, such as name,...
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1.6KSecurity & FraudUL: 3DS 2.0 Can Secure Merchants’ Omnichannel Ship
When you turn on a light in your home, chances are the lamp meets the nationally recognized UL Standards, and says so...
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1.7KToday In DataThe Power Of Payments To Make Purchases Happen
Keeping customers satisfied is hard work. With so many things to do to smooth a customer’s journey, it’s easy to forget the...
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3.5KIntelligence of ThingsKeeping Beer, Profits And Data Flowing
For each of the 300,000 U.S. locations serving draft beer, bad data means a $12,000 annual loss. That, says Chris Lorkowski, CEO...
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2.9KMobile PaymentsFirst Data Expands Alipay Acceptance To 600M Chinese Users
Ant Financial’s Alipay is expanding across North America as it broadens its partnership with First Data, the companies announced Monday (March 19)....
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2.6KAmazonAmazon Says Go Stores An Early Hit With Customers
It looks like consumers who try Amazon Go like it enough to keep coming back, particularly if the cashier-free shops are in...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsCanadian Firms Want Greater Supplier Payment Choice, Survey Finds
Small businesses (SMBs) in Canada want more payment options, both in how they accept payments from consumers and how they pay their...
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5.3KAlternative FinancesHow Affirm Wants To Push ‘Honest Financing’ Into Physical Retail
Despite the nearly continuous drumbeat of doom and gloom from the world of physical retail, there is, according to Affirm CRO Rob...
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3.4KRetailTo See Retail’s Future, Go Back To The Basics
The retail revolution will be digitized. But how to get to the revolution in the first place when you might already be...
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2.9KMobile PaymentsWePay Powers Instant Payments Processing For TouchBistro Merchants
TouchBistro, the provider of iPad point-of-sale (POS) software for restaurants, has announced the launch of TouchBistro Payments powered by WePay. Together, the...
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3.3KSecurity & FraudApplebee’s Hit With POS Data Breach
After its point of sale (POS) systems were reportedly affected by malware designed to capture credit card information, RMH Franchise Holdings is...
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2.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsAlipay Consumers Pay At POS In Canada
Alipay, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, is reportedly reaping the rewards of its partnership with Motion Pay Technology, the payment company in...
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2.7KRetailSMBs 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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3.1KPayments InnovationGoogle Pay Smart Tap Hits The POS
To help shoppers use gift cards, coupons and loyalty rewards when paying with their mobile phones, Ingenico Group has made Google Pay...
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2.7KRetail70 Percent Of Merchants Use Progress Bars To Drive Checkout Conversions
Big merchants have many strategies, but they often lack an online checkout strategy. As a result, merchants may lose millions a year...
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4.0KRetailQuick-Service Restaurants (QSRs) Use In-Store Promotions And Events For A Competitive Edge
For nearly three decades, customers of McDonald’s have been able to buy burgers, fries and chance to play an in-house game of...
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3.0KMobile PaymentsSouth Korean Starbucks Accepts Alipay For Tourists
Chinese tourists looking for a coffee fix in South Korea are in luck, as more than 1,000 Starbucks locations across the country...
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4.0KSecurity & FraudALDI Stores Hit With Credit Card Skimmer
ALDI, the grocery store operator, is being targeted by scammers who are installing credit card skimmers on top of point-of-sale terminals in...
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2.4KPOS InnovationFiserv’s Accel Expands Routing Options
Fiserv, the financial services technology company, announced news on Wednesday (Jan. 31) that its Accel debit payments network has expanded its routing...
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5.4KPOS InnovationQSR Automations Targets Restaurant Delivery, Take-Out Markets With Updates
Food order-ahead mobile apps are exceedingly good at calculating the best route for drivers, but they don’t always keep consumers informed about...
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4.4KRetail58.3 Percent Of Soup, Salad And Bowls QSRs Innovate With Kiosks
While quick service restaurants can be slow to innovate, soup, salad and bowls eateries may be among the more forward-thinking of the...
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4.7KPoint 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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3.5KBankingICBA Bancard To Offer Banks Access To NYCE Debit Network
ICBA Bancard, the payments services unit of the Independent Community Bankers of America, announced news on Wednesday (Jan. 10) that ICBA Bancard...
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3.0KRetailTop 5 Retail Stories Of 2017
It’s 2018! That means that now, whenever people perceive something as backwards, unfashionable or antiquated, they’ll be quick to say it’s “so...
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4.4KSecurity & FraudForever 21’s POS Hack Went Unnoticed For 8 Months
Forever 21 has provided an update on a payment card data breach that it first reported in mid-November. According to the national...
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5.6KMobile CommerceMobile Payments 2.0: Building Better Retail Experiences
Payments has by and large been a growth business for the last half decade or so, and that fact has been mappable...
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3.4KPayment MethodsAmex Latest To Ditch The Signature
Payments processor American Express announced Monday (Dec. 11) that it will stop requiring merchants to collect signatures for purchases at the point...
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3.1KMerchant InnovationDiscover Latest To Ditch Signatures At POS
Discover, the payments company, announced news on Wednesday (Dec. 6) that as of April 2018, customers will no longer be required to...
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5.3KPayment MethodsPayments Testing One, Two, Three
Modern consumers have high expectations for technology. If something doesn’t work perfectly, they’re quick to grow frustrated and abandon it as junk....
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6.2KMPOS TrackerMastercard Taps Into The Global Appeal of mPOS
What began as a way to give micro-merchants a path to digital is now a superhighway for enabling a variety of important...
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5.6KMPOS TrackerNEW REPORT: mPOS Moves Beyond Payments
It’s tempting for small merchants to see cash through rose- (or should we say green-) tinted glasses, but major industry players think...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsLend Small: POS Credit For SMBs
This year, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday all raised the bar on holiday shopping levels. ‘Tis the season for...
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6.7KPOS 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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4.9KPOS InnovationNCR, Samsung Launch An All-In-One POS
NCR and Samsung Electronics America announced news on Wednesday (Nov. 8) of the launch of NCR Silver Quantum, an all-in-one point-of-sale (POS)...
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4.4KPayment MethodsWhen Points Programs Fail To Score Points
How to get customers to stay loyal? To win the game of hearts and minds? Meet them on their own turf —...
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6.3KMastercardVerifone To Integrate Mastercard’s M/Chip Fast Technology
Verifone, the payment company, announced news on Thursday (Nov. 2) that it is implementing Mastercard’s M/Chip Fast technology across the company’s next-generation...
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5.9KPayment MethodsTheory Of Payments Evolution: EMV Will Get Better With Age
If there is one universal truth in payments, it’s that the easier a process feels to consumers, the more difficult it was...
