POS and Retail

Fraudsters have access to vast quantities of personal identifiable information and can look very authentic. Therefore, it is better to diversify and utilize multiple sources of data to help protect your business.

Merchants are embracing open banking at a high rate, creating new opportunities once consumers get on board, says Nuapay's Brian Hanrahan.

APIs need to be designed with features such as defenses, proper authentication, batching, and throttling in mind, says Shape Security's Jarrod Overson.

Walmart Inc.’s Jet subsidiary is ending its fresh-food delivery business just a year after introducing the service in New York City, another sign that the urban-focused site is scaling back.

Once signed up, customers expect a smooth enrollment and onboarding experience, too, regardless of the channel, says Intelledox's Neal Keene.

Shoppers will soon be able to work out the true carbon footprint of their purchases thanks to an app from one of the most digitally savvy nations in the world.

The most recognizable brands in retail are making substantial investments that connect digital and offline channels, with results that have been encouraging enough for Target to get on board.

Denny’s has partnered with Presto, a maker of restaurant industry hardware, to provide tablets for customers to pay at the table using credit and debit cards for contact and contactless payments.

It is important to understand how bias may be found naturally in your own existing customer base, and how this may affect your inferences, since these naturally need checks and balances to avoid sampling bias, argues Callsign's Stuart Dobbie.

Could the Macy's online data breach have been thwarted by SRC, a new security technology championed by the card brands?

Alliance Data Systems Corp. planned on hiring Citi's Ralph Andretta as the top deputy to its new chief executive officer. Instead, it decided to name him as her replacement.

As deployments accelerate it's hard to ignore the validity of cryptocurrency. But there's still work to do, says Polyient Labs' Brad Robertson.

Modern technology is making it easier for fraudsters to trick consumers into believing they are making payments from their accounts to legitimate providers, but governing bodies in the U.K. are putting the brakes on rushing to create a new fund to compensate victims of those scams.

Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., said African entrepreneurs will find countless opportunities in e-commerce, logistics and e-payments as the continent prepares for the start of a free-trade deal.

A basket of currencies will include a mix of national interests and involve internal and external politics, says Stasis' Gregory Klumov.

The cryptocurrency world is seeing a surge in the issuance of gold-backed tokens, with some of the digital-asset industry’s biggest and most controversial participants joining in on the fresh gold rush.

The blockchain has the potential to disrupt any industry sector, leaving in its wake a more effective system where people get to own the value they create, says PayStand's Jeremy Almond.

Ahead of the busiest shopping period of the year, CaixaBank is embracing facial recognition retail payments, an option that has met with pushback elsewhere.

Coinbase Card has expanded its cryptocurrency exchange payment cards into 10 new countries and added five new crypto assets that users can spend.

Visa and Mastercard are once again in the crosshairs of U.S. antitrust regulators over policies that can prohibit merchants from routing card transactions over alternative debit networks.