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6.3KInnovationDeep 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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4.6KDigital 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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6.2KInnovationWhy 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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4.5KMastercardMastercard’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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5.4KPoint 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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2.7KMPOS 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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4.3KPartnerships / 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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2.8KToday 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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5.1KPartnerships / 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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7.8KRetailGiving 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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2.6KPartnerships / 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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11.5KMPOS 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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7.5KGlobal 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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8.5KPayment 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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6.7KB2B 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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4.4KPayment 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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4.7KPoint 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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4.0KRetailMobile 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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4.5KEarningsWells 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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6.5KPOS 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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4.3KEcosystemsChinese 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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2.2KPoint 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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4.4KOmnicommerceNMI 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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4.0KMobile 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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6.0KSafety 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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12.9KPayments 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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5.2KPOS 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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8.8KCommentaryVisa: 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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3.3KPodcastListen 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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4.4KPersonnelSquare 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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16.5KPayments 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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4.1KPayment 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...
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3.8KInvestmentsShopKeep Closes $65M Growth Round
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...
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4.5KRetailWhy The Merchant Countertop Needs A Tech Update
So much is changing in retail and payments these days — the seemingly unstoppable rise of mobile, for instance, or the transformation...
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5.5KMPOS TrackerIs mPOS The New Nonprofit Nonoptional?
The holiday shopping season is here — and to capture profits, retailers need to ensure that customers’ payment experiences are as smooth as...
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5.0KPartnerships / AcquisitionsPayPal-iZettle Deal Probed By UK Antitrust Watchdog
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...
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6.1KPOS InnovationMobeewave Founders On Igniting Contactless Payments In 2019
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...
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3.9KInvestmentsStandard Cognition Raises $40M To Take On Amazon Go
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...
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8.3KPayment MethodsChase Card Services President On Why It’s Time For Cards To Tap And Go
How to speed the checkout process? To echo an old Dustin Hoffman film, the answer may lie with one word: plastic. To...
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2.5KRetailmyPOS Brings New Store To Barcelona
To bring its products and services closer to local small and medium-sized businesses, European payments provider myPOS will be opening a new...
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4.0KRetailRetail Pulse: Glossier Goes Experiential In NYC; Holiday Retail Sales May Top $1 Trillion
It’s not uncommon for brands to open permanent stores after experimenting with pop-ups, but Glossier is taking an innovative payments approach to...
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3.0KRetailAll Grown Up And Ready To Pop Up: eTailers Turn To Pop-Up Store Gurus
For digitally native brands moving from the web to brick and mortar, startups are providing a platform to help with the transition....
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4.5KEarningsSquare GPV Gains Amid Larger Sellers, Capital Loans Surge 34 Pct
Square's gross payment volumes surged 29 percent year over year and larger sellers, at volumes $125K and above, were a larger percent...
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2.6KToday In DataToday In Data: The Evolving Face Of What’s Next In Mobile
It’s been an up and down week on the stock market as earnings reports have piled in and investors have like, or...
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4.7KRetailAEVI Software Launch Targets SMB Checkout Improvements
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...
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12.0KDigital PaymentsCan Mobile Pay-At-Table Be Dining’s Friction Elixir?
These days, it’s hard to even think of a restaurant operating without some massive presence in digital — not only an attractive website,...
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6.0KMPOS TrackerWhy Yesterday Is The Key To Building mPOS’ Future
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...
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5.1KPOS InnovationWant To Win With Payment Terminals? Get Intimate.
In a sense, the ongoing battle for point-of-sale supremacy involves intimacy. Yes, intimacy. Maybe a diner prefers to have the waiter bring...
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2.9KPoint of SaleSquare Share Price Sinks Further Post-CFO Departure
Square is dealing with fallout from its CFO’s upcoming departure, with shares in the company falling again on Thursday (October 12). The...
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3.2KGlobal PaymentsSmartPesa Rolls Out Android POS System; Vipps Selects Inside Secure For Payment Security
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Norway’s Vipps selection of Inside Secure...
