Mobile payments for cannabis dispensaries in the works

September 17, 2018

Virtual Crypto Technologies Inc. has announced plans to develop a cryptocurrency payment product for cannabis dispensaries. The company intends to offer this…

Boomers nearly 5x more likely than millennials to swipe credit cards over cash

August 8, 2018

People age 29 and younger are 93 percent more likely to have a negative opinion of credit cards than people age 59 and older, according to new research from…

Apple Pay hit billion-transaction milestone

August 7, 2018

Apple CEO Tim Cook talked up the company's mobile payment service in an earnings call Tuesday, touting1 billion Apple Pay transactions in the company's…

Guess? delivers Alipay mobile payments to retail stores

July 30, 2018

Guess? Inc., a global lifestyle brand and retailer, is partnering with Alipay to enable Chinese travelers visiting the U.S. to pay with the Alipay app when…

Consumers still wary about security with mobile banking, payments

July 26, 2018

Nearly 6 in 10 consumers pay bills on line, but half of this group have concerns about the security of doing so, according to Expectations & Experiences…

Wirecard debuts wearable payment options to Europe via Mastercard deal

July 25, 2018

Wirecard and Mastercard are expanding an existing strategic cooperation with the aim of making digital, contactless payments via wearables accessible to more…

Standard Cognition raises $11.2M to develop autonomous checkout

July 23, 2018

Standard Cognition, developer of an autonomous checkout system for retailers, has raised an additional $5.5 million in seed funding from CRV, bringing the…

Networld Media Group launches World of Money daily

This month Networld Media Group will begin publishing WorldofMoney.com, a daily news brief covering issues and events that affect the business of money and the…

Merchants, banks see benefits to real-time payments

July 5, 2018

Eighty-six percent of banks, 82 percent of billing organizations and 78 percent of merchants expect to see improvements in their customer service as a result…

Study: Consumers want more payment choices at unattended terminals

June 18, 2018

Some 70 percent of consumers want unattended terminals to accept both card and cash payments and a significant number are willing to use wearable devices or…

As frictionless payments struggle consumers cling to cash

June 15, 2018

Consumer concerns about data security and privacy are hampering the move to frictionless payments, according to Lost in Transaction: Payment Trends 2018, a…

Nuggets testing blockchain e-commerce mobile app

May 21, 2018

Nuggets, an e-commerce payments and ID platform, has opened up its mobile app Alpha to iOS users. 

Wirecard powering contactless payments in Garmin smartwatches

May 18, 2018

Wirecard is partnering with Garmin to provide Garmin smartwatch owners a digital payment experience through Wirecard's flagship product, boon, according to a…

Walmart shutters Scan&Go due to consumer disinterest

May 16, 2018

There's no more Scan&Go happening at Walmart as the top retailer has shuttered the cashierless checkout app.

Ingenico Group, USA Technologies team up on solution for unattended retail

May 11, 2018

Ingenico Group, a payment equipment provider, and USA Technologies Inc., a provider of cashless and mobile payment and business optimization services for the…

Why retail cashierless checkout, a.k.a. Amazon Go, faces more than a few challenges ahead

by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com

While Amazon preps to expand Amazon Go, its cashierless retail shopping strategy, Berkeley Research Group leader Keith Jelinek offers insight on what's ahead…

ShopKeep expands payment processing options to include TSYS' ProPay

April 6, 2018

ShopKeep and ProPay, a TSYS company, have announced a new partnership in which ProPay will manage payment processing via its Payment Facilitator service for…

Amazon happy with customer response to Go store but guarded about future plans

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

While encouraged by customer response Amazon isn't ready to announce much about its plans for its innovative cashierless store. The company is making sure the…

Millennials willing to pay more for a top mobile experience

March 8, 2018

Millennial consumers are willing to spend more if the return is a five-star mobile experience, according to a Worldpay research report.

Talking With: InfoVista's Ricardo Belmar on retail customer experience trends, tech in play

by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com

Ricardo Belmar, senior director, worldwide enterprise product marketing at InfoVista, has been entrenched in the world of networks, technology and retail…