This month’s Vantiv Omnicommerce Tracker highlighted a number of trends but perhaps none more interesting than what innovators are doing to make omnichannel a one-to-one experience. Marcus Robins, SVP of Strategy for Vantiv recently caught up with MPD CEO Karen Webster to offer his insight...
Across the U.S., merchant payments is an area that’s experiencing rapid growth and transformation. And when it comes to delivering solutions for the space, Neil Randel, CEO of First American Payment Systems says merchants want to do a lot more with a lot less –...
TSYS announced yesterday (April 21) that it has enabled full service payment processing under American Express OptBlue, the small merchant acquiring program from American Express, according to a TSYS release. The new program allows eligible direct merchants and small merchants from TSYS' third-party clients to...
Mel Brooks famously observed that it is good to be the king, but while few of us will ever intentionally pass up a turn in the throne, there are downsides to the crown. When the going gets tough, the king is the person most at risk of...
With the filing of an F-1 document with the SEC, Shopify has announced its intention to pursue an IPO and begin selling shares on the open market. That decision seems to come on the strength of declining losses in Q1 2015. Shopify – which provides subscription...
In-store analytics giant RetailNext has tripled its funding by closing a $125 million round, the company announced on Wednesday (April 15). The Series E round was led by Activant Capital Group, but all RetailNext’s existing investors also participated, including August Capital, StarVest Partners, Nokia Growth...
A hotel management group has confirmed payment-card breaches in 10 of its hotels, just months before the affected point-of-sale (POS) systems were scheduled to be converted to tokenization — which might have blocked the breaches. White Lodging Services, which operates 174 hotel properties, said last...
Even given the tech sector’s nearly universal drive to make sure that no American with a smartphone will ever be hungry again, Square’s acquisition of food delivery service Caviar last summer seemed like something of a puzzler. Square’s main corporate MO had been centered on payments...
The migration to EMV has given merchants a whole new reason to revisit point of sale features that help not only maintain compliance with new standards, but also increase the opportunities to add value to their customers and efficiency to their store operations. On Tuesday,...
