POS and Retail

As an early adopter of e-commerce in the 1990s, 1-800-Flowers.com is pushing the envelope again with 3-D and augmented reality technologies to sell floral arrangements with new payment options, including Venmo.

Until the gender gap of the technology, banking and payment industries change, innovation will continue to be impacted, says Itemize's Samantha Fisher.

For banks and other financial institutions to survive and thrive in the age of mobile payments and e-commerce, they need to continue to enhance their mobile apps with more innovations, tighter security features and more time-saving capabilities.

For banks and other financial institutions to survive and thrive in the age of mobile payments and e-commerce, they need to continue to enhance their mobile apps with more innovations, tighter security features, and more time-saving capabilities, says Informa Financial Intelligence's Gina DeCorla.

Biometrics technology provider PopID has developed a business philosophy that tests the consumers' comfort level with facial recognition in a more casual setting.

Square's merchants have shown early interest in cryptocurrency payments, and if merchants accept this new concept, it could exist along with other Square services to support numerous use cases, including broader financial services.

The future of brick and mortar retail is somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. Buried beneath a virtual sea in a place once called Xanadu is an underwater version of New York, a nautical Times Square where marquees scream “Piranha of the Opera,” and “Krill Grill.”

The concept can enable chargeback abuse, and if this “blind-eye” approach continues to dominate, the bad behavior will only get worse, says Chargeback 911's Monica Eaton-Cardone.

After a decline, fraud has recently spiked. But there are measures companies can take to stay ahead of the crooks, says Nvoicepay's Alyssa Callahan.

New smartphones have subtle differences that require more complex security solutions, says Fingerprints' Ted Hansson.

Last week, Indian regulators ordered an antitrust probe of Walmart and Amazon while Jeff Bezos and other Amazon execs traveled to New Delhi to tout a $1 billion investment to digitize local businesses. The message is U.S. investment is welcome, as long as U.S.-driven data mining is kept at bay.

Criminals will react to the EU legislation by changing their modus operandi, says Nets' Sune Gabelgard.

The fintech Sezzle has finally received its point-of-sale lending license in California after agreeing to refund consumers in the state and pay a penalty for previously making illegal loans there, the California Department of Business Oversight said Thursday.

The fintech Sezzle received its license after agreeing to refund customers and pay a fine for previously making loans that state regulators had deemed illegal.

The ransomware attack chain uses a number of methods to infect an organization's systems, which can easily bypass an entire organizational security framework in seconds, according to Exabeam's Richard Cassidy

The National Retail Federation's annual conference, taking place this week in New York, is home to many innovations that could change the way merchants accept payments.

Sophisticated attacks will show lower volume in many cases but attempt to emulate user behavior, says NuData Security’s Robert Capps.

Shopify has provided merchant cash advance services for the last three years for established online retailers, but newcomers with no transaction history typically were turned away.

Data privacy regulations may be improving, and tech companies may now be forced to be more transparent about their practices, but the fact remains that vast quantities of personally identifying information are already out in the wild, says TRUSTID's Patrick Cox.

Samsung's upcoming XCover Pro phone, which can accept contactless payments without add-on hardware, is the first of what Visa hopes will be many devices capable of natively handling NFC payments.