POS and Retail

If measuring PCI-DSS compliance was like tracking an athletic team's progress, one could say it was in a bad slump.

Alibaba's Singles Day e-commerce marketing event set another record, suggesting Asia's giant digital payments market shows no signs of slowing down.

The challenge is to digitize digital currency rewards in such a way where a retailer could issue its own token, and that token could be used at a multitude of retailers, says cryptocurrency lawyer Felix Shipkevich.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will spend $3.3 billion to raise its stake in Cainiao, in an effort to exert more control over the logistics subsidiary that underpins its sprawling e-commerce empire.

If the Fed's new service doesn't effectively prevent existing types of fraud, we might even see fraud increase thanks to the instant payments concept, says Chargeback 911's Monica Eaton-Cardone.

Firms often say they’ll increase conversion rates and offer discounts, but the reality is more complicated, contends 2Checkout’s Erich Litch.

After the last two decades of selling prepaid cards and bank accounts direct to consumers, Green Dot has increasingly been shifting gears to rent out its payments and banking infrastructure to nonbanks who want to offer cards and banking services to their users.

A cloud of biometric authentication is what will transport us to our own, even better version of the real-time payment-enabled future, says Enacomm's Michael Boukadakis.

To lay the groundwork for future success, retailers need to create a digital currency strategy. Most retailers and online brands are aware they need a digital currency plan but don't know where to start the process, says cryptocurrency lawyer Felix Shipkevich.

Airlines have become a magnet for online fraud, as criminals refined methods to tap channels with higher payoffs.