The occurrence of several major data breaches last year stirred anxiety among cardholder security stakeholders. That, of course, has led to a significant push toward EMV enablement and additional layered security approaches across the U.S. In a new whitepaper, Moneris Solutions unveils a step-by-step guide...
Not everyone thinks the right way to keep from carrying all those plastic payment cards is to electronically put them all on your smartphone. A startup called Qvivr wants you to put them all on just one metal payment card, according to VentureBeat. A card...
uxedo Money Solutions, a UK-based international payments technology firm, has announced its partnership with i2c Inc., a Silicon Valley based global payments processor. According to an i2c release, the two are targeting the emerging financial sector, and will leverage their financial services knowledge and payment...
Giant coffee chains Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts may have rolled out their mobile payment and loyalty apps nationwide, but that’s no reason regional chains can’t get in on the action, too. East Coast convenience store chain Wawa has launched its own mobile app featuring gift-card-based...
Global payments provider TSYS, along with Ingenico Group, recently announced a new agreement to offer merchants a seamless and secure solution for accepting all payment types, according to a TSYS release. These payment types include magnetic stripe, EMV, NFC and Apple Pay.
Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency whose supporters like to think of it as anything but ordinary, may have just gained its best chance at widespread acceptance — by being just one of the boys. Braintree, eBay’s mobile-friendly payments-processing subsidiary, said on Thursday (Jan. 22) that it has...
Videogame retailer GameStop is fighting back against online shopping with beacons that stream game content directly to customers’ smartphones when they’re in a store, according to The Wall Street Journal. The chainwide store upgrade, which is expected to start rolling out in Q2 to the...
Customers really do appreciate free Wi-Fi, it seems. A new study by IHL Group found that 28 percent of retailers who added in-store Wi-Fi said they got a boost in customer loyalty. That may not qualify as a competitive advantage, though. The survey also found...
French point-of-sale vendor Ingenico now owns 100 percent of mobile commerce platform ROAM, the company announced on Tuesday (Jan. 20). Going forward, the names of ROAM’s existing individual products — which include secure mobile card readers, mobile point-of-sale applications, a mobile payments engine and professional...
