POS and Retail

It’s past time for every organization handling sensitive data to lock down their security, and to stop relying personally identifiable information to verify users, writes Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success for NuData Security.

TotalHousehold Pro, a website platform for home improvement contractors to manage their businesses, is partnering with CardConnect to launch a mobile app to allow contractors to accept payments in the field.

The pushback on stores that don’t accept cash seems to be gaining momentum, with Philadelphia the latest municipality to consider a law that would ban cash-free shops.

Unattended retail, which traditionally meant vending machines, laundromats and very small mini-stores, is benefiting from the same trends that make Amazon's cashierless stores possible. But is there room in the market for both models?

Mobile technology is giving restaurants new ways to accept orders and payment, but largely ignores the social aspect of ordering a meal, particularly in office complexes.

One solution would be to move to infrastructures where card issuers can share the cost of offering rewards with the retailers — making it a win-win-win situation, according to Mehmet Sezgin, CEO and founder of myGini.

Game day is a big day not just for athletes — anyone who sells pizza, chicken wings and beer will also win big if they have the capacity to handle all of the orders that come in. Many are turning to mobile and online technology to increase sales and remove friction from the payment process.

Cryptocurrency has struggled to be accepted for everyday payments, but it is finding opportunities in certain niches — such as gun sales.

The U.S. e-commerce explosion is driving about $150 billion annually in returns, and Returnly is riding the trend with a service to eliminate the waiting time for consumers to receive funds from items they plan to return to the merchant.

Fraudsters have evolved their strategies to focus on other flavors of fraud, and its actually encouraging to see retailers are still treating payment fraud as a top-of-mind concern as that evolution happens, according to Håkan Nordfjell, senior vice president of digital banking at Gemalto.

E-commerce's opposite threats of cart abandonment and fraud create butting heads, but advanced authentication could give merchants a new way to manage both challenges.

Stadiums, arenas and theaters are natural fits for innovations such as social P2P, mobile commerce and transferrable authentication. This, in turn, makes such venues a magnet for the payments industry’s most recognizable brands.

Discover and Garmin International are partnering to allow Discover cardholders the ability to make contactless payments through Garmin Pay on various fitness smartwatches.

Starbucks is being pressured to add an in-app option for deliveries rather than redirect customers to Uber's app.

Small businesses short on cash can use advances from Fundbox to buy products from online suppliers.

Due to growing consumer expectations for 24/7 digital access and real time decisions, some organizations such as financial institutions and merchants have reduced the more stringent manual application review processes in order to open accounts quickly, according to Michael Lynch, chief strategy officer at InAuth.

While the transaction will lower the cost of servicing First Data’s massive debt, the fintech and processing giant will be more complex and ponderous, writes Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.

Retailers are aggressively competing to bring new delivery technologies to market, ranging from autonomous vehicles to gig economy apps.

The news may seem overdue, but this isn't a story of two Goliaths battling it out. It's a tale of one Goliath beating multiple Davids — slowly, methodically, and one at a time.

Protecting P2P and mobile transactions will mean employing fraud protection measures at enrollment and on an ongoing basis, throughout the customer and payment life cycle, writes David Barnhardt, executive vice president of product at GIACT.