POS and Retail

Insecure software development and insufficient use of security best practices creates significant risk for both consumers and commercial organizations alike, writes Carl Wright, CCO of AttackIQ.

If cryptocurrency is on its way to becoming a mainstream payment method in the U.K., it will be due to an increased appetite from major card networks for forming alliances with leading cryptocurrency providers.

Mastercard is making a niche play in the hot point of sale financing market, teaming with Dividio and lastminute.com to offer installment loans at checkout.

Improvements in digital receipts should be enough to spur greater adoption, argues Mike Golebiowski, president of IBT.

Amazon.com Inc. has launched many brick-and-mortar experiments in the past few years: bookstores, grocery pickup kiosks, cashierless convenience stores. Yet none of these have shown as much promise as the e-commerce giant’s unlikely partnership with Kohl’s Corp., the very definition of an old-school retailer.

Shift4 Payments is giving away free payment terminals to restaurants again, but this time it's using a cloud-based approach with richer marketing tools, including links to social media.

The fintech M&A wave is sweeping over the dining and fast-food industries, with major companies like Amazon, Walmart and American Express spending on smaller firms that focus on digital food delivery and payments.

Ahrendts, 58, joins the home-sharing startup after a five-year stint overhauling Apple Inc.’s retail operations.

Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., recently introduced the Payment Choice Act in the U.S. House of Representatives to prohibit retail businesses from refusing cash for payments.

Sainsbury’s has launched the U.K.’s first mobile-only checkout-free grocery store, inviting comparisons to what Amazon Go is doing in the U.S. But their models are far from identical.