POS

Want 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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Point of Sale

Square 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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Global Payments

SmartPesa 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...

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Blockchain

Pundi X CEO On Dialing Up Digital Payments, Calling Up Blockchain Phones In Dubai

Well beyond bitcoin, blockchain is making inroads into the mainstream and cryptos are seeing a thaw when it comes to conducting commerce. ...

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Data Dive

Data Dive, Columbus Edition: Square, PayPal And One Brave Bank Teller

Today is Columbus Day, a celebration of Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of Americas 526 years ago. The “discovery” is in quotes for three...

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Global Payments

Sberbank Rolls Out Cash Postcards; Binance Invests In TravelbyBit

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...

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Gas Station Retail

Oil Companies’ Gas Payments ‘Fast Lane’ Pursuit

Mobile payments at the pump? Made reality, the concept has the potential to save time and truly move life into the fast...

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VISA

Visa: Why The US Is Finally Ready For Contactless

Contactless cards have been a big hit around the world. In the U.K., the European Union (EU) and Canada, contactless payments account for...

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Point of Sale

myPOS Launches New Store In Milan

myPOS announced that it will open a store in Milan, Italy this week, its fourth brick-and-mortar location in Europe. This will be...

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Payment Methods

Stripe Takes On Square, Clover With New Terminal

Stripe, the payments company, announced on Monday (Sept. 17) the launch of Stripe Terminal, a product that will enable online businesses and...

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POS Innovation

Food For Thought In Food Service Payments

Chew on this: Food service businesses of all types demand fast and flexible payments, tackling issues as far flung as mobile order...

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ResTech

First American On Food Service And Flexible Payments

Food for thought: Quick service isn’t just for fast food. When it comes to the need for speed, transactions done with haste,...

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Personnel

Stripe: Developers Are The Economy’s Most Precious Resource

If one were looking at the economy a decade ago, Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson told Karen Webster, the biggest challenge businesses faced in growing...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: Tapping Into The Tokenized Future

While the “mobile everything” future has been long predicted, as of the second half of 2018, we are actually beginning to see...

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Mobile Payments

Square Integrates With Apple Desktop, Chromebook

Square has announced that it is releasing two new ways for businesses to take payments on their Apple devices and Google Chromebook. “We...

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Sizzle/Fizzle

Square And India Commerce Sizzle While The Krona And US Debt Fizzle

Sizzle Square: The firm, touted by some on the sell side as “FinTech’s best idea,” had a stock boost this week. At...

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SMBs

How myPOS Helped EU’s SMBs Jump The Shark On Cash

When myPOS launched in 2014, cash was still mostly king among small businesses. In fact, as Andrew Byrne, COO at myPOS, told...

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Cryptocurrency

With Patent Filing, Square Circles Cryptos For Payments At POS

Much has been made about cryptocurrencies and the speculation that has marked trading activity in that arena. Much has been made about...

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Security & Fraud

Darden Cyberattack Puts 567K Cards At Risk

Darden Restaurants announced Wednesday (August 23) that the data on 567,000 payment card numbers may have been exposed. In a press release,...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Verifone Acquisition Official, Discontinues NYSE Stock

Verifone Systems announced that it has been acquired by an investor group, led by technology firm Francisco Partners. The $3.4 billion acquisition, previously announced...

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Biometrics

CLEAR: Biometrics, Ballparks And Bridges To A Portable ID

How on time a traveler is for a flight seems to be consistently correlated with how long it will take them to...

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Payment Methods

Square Makes EMV Transactions Faster In The US

Square, the digital payments company, announced on Wednesday (Aug. 15) that it delivered on its pledge to make EMV transactions faster in the...

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Mobile

A Single Scan And Done — The Benefits Of Mobile Wallet Integration

Digital data is one thing, and mobile apps do pretty well in appealing to high-value customers, but integration is the real trick....

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Retail

How Duty-Free Shops Can Tap Into Mobile Wish Lists

Airports can be flooded with passengers at particular times of the day, especially when they are faced with a slew of international...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: The Upgrading And Diversifying Face Of Financial Services

After a long, and at times painful, journey back from the wilderness that began in May 2016, it looks like things are...

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Blockchain

Beam Links Blockchain, Retail Mobile Payments

Global tech startup Beam Wallet is ready to launch a new mobile payment solution, which will link smartphones and blockchain technology to enable...

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Retail

WePay’s Aberman: It’s Time For POS Dinosaurs To Die Out

When it comes to the topic of future proofing, WePay Co-founder Rich Aberman told Karen Webster for this week’s edition of Unscripted...

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Global Payments

Worldnet Brings ‘Quickchip’ To POS; Lurraldebus Rolls Out Mobile Tickets

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes a mobile wallet pilot by Banco Agrario,...

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Delivery

Could Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?

Grubhub made news a couple weeks ago when it simultaneously delivered a very strong Q2 2018 earnings report and announced the acquisition...

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Point of Sale

Square Opens Reader Hardware To Developers

Square announced it is opening its Reader hardware to developers, enabling them to build their own custom checkout and point of sale...

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News

Five at Five: Ride Hailing Service Grab Set For New $1B Investment

Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Stories include Southeast Asia...

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Earnings

Clover Vs. Square: What’s Next In This POS Competition?

Clover, the point-of-sale operation owned by First Data, keeps growing, and that could present more challenges for Square. First Data reported its...

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Earnings

Shopify Shares Fall Over Growth Slowdown

Despite a quarter of new product feature announcements and an order volume milestone, shares of Shopify fell more than 6 percent on...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: The Power In Picking The Right Partners

Good partnerships – Abbott and Costello, Jobs and Wozniak, chocolate and peanut butter – can change the world. When combined, the two...

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Payment Methods

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Sees 46 Percent Market Share Growth

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, the global retail electronic point of sale (EPOS) technology company, announced on Monday (July 30) that it has grown...

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Google

Google Pay Redesign Launches

Google Pay is getting an overhaul with a new user design being launched on Monday (July 9), reported BGR. According to BGR,...

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MPOS Tracker

Easing Taxi Drivers’ Cash Flow Headaches With mPOS

For SMBs, “cash-only” can be a double-edged sword: instant access to funds at the cost of turning away card-holding customers who can...

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MPOS Tracker

TRENDING: Can mPOS Solutions Win Over Cash-Centric Merchants?

Players in the mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) space are focusing on catering to payment needs of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Efforts range...

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Global Payments

Oracle Brings FinTech Program To Brussels, Blockchain Poised For Growth In India

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Oracle’s decision to bring its FinTech Innovation...

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Payments Innovation

Are Retailers Ready For Amazon’s Prime Time?

My plan on Friday evening was to write a hard-hitting piece on a services segment with incredible marketplace friction. Then I went...

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Payment Methods

Shake Shack Founders Stand By Cashless Move

Danny Meyer is defending his restaurant group’s decision to test out cashless transactions, saying they are not looking to exclude prospective guests....