Payments players have suspected for the past two years that digital payments were becoming increasingly routine, but now research is...

Cash use is down and digital payments are up for restaurants. How has this changed the payments landscape for this merchant segment? Cash...

Mastercard Inc. says the future of payments at the point of sale includes the ability to make a point-of-sale payment using a facial...

When it comes to shopping, it’s becoming a mobile world. A report released on Thursday by omnichannel-platform provider NewStore Inc....

The white-hot buy now, pay later market got even hotter Tuesday as Visa Inc. announced an expansion of its Visa Ready program with Visa...

In a nod to consumers’ preference to have all the contents of a physical wallet digitized—including driver’s licenses and vaccine cards,...

Peter Lucas June 21, 2021 Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Fraud & Security, Issuing/Originating, Point-of-sale The...

Kevin Woodward June 16, 2021 Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Marketing, Mobile Commerce, Near-Field Communication (NFC),...

Payments companies took a beating as the pandemic raged, but Visa Inc.’s top brass indicated Tuesday afternoon the big network has put...

Despite scattered successes, too many pitfalls dot the road to widespread merchant acceptance. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies...

Deluxe Corp. is best known as the largest supplier of checks in the United States, but early Thursday it showed how serious it is about...

That the shift toward digital forms of payment was accelerated by the pandemic has been duly noted over the past year, but how much of...

Continuing its push to make cryptocurrency a mainstream payment option, PayPal Holdings, Inc. on Monday announced that it will accept...

Visa and Mastercard are postponing plans to boost the fees U.S. merchants pay when consumers use credit cards online, pushing back the...

By John Adams A former toy store is hosting the latest of Amazon’s attempts to use its enrolled base, mobile app and automatic sensors to...

Jim Daly - New data from a point-of-sale services provider show just how much of a boost the Covid-19 pandemic has given to contactless...

Visa Postponing most interchange rate changes until April 2021.

Kevin Woodward - Commerce platform Shopify Inc. has released a refreshed point-of-sale appliance and suite of features.  Announced...

Jim Daley - Visa Inc. divulged both grim and hopeful payment data Thursday that largely reflects what its rivals have been seeing after...

Jean Harvey Johnson - When it comes to making a purchase, who doesn’t use a credit or debit card? Most of the world, that’s who. While...