Coca-Cola Amatil invests in digital payments firm, will support vending and retail

September 9, 2020

Coca-Cola Amatil, a Coca-Cola bottler serving Australia and New Zealnd, is taking a minority investment in Centrapay as part of the payment platform's seed…

Mastercard launches touchless, frictionless retail solutions

September 8, 2020

Mastercard is debuting a suite of frictionless solutions, Shop Anywhere and AI Powered Drive Through, that are applicable and adaptable to any retail…

Sporting goods retailer taps Oracle Cloud for greater associate-customer engagement

September 7, 2020

Sporting goods retailer Scheels is deploying Oracle Retail Xstore and Oracle Retail Xstore Office Cloud Service to its 28 stores in a quest to give associates…

Bank of America Mobile app gives customer $2.45B

September 3, 2020

A Bank of America customer in Massachusetts checked his account to discover the bank had deposited $2.45 billion into his account.

AREA15 experiential complex opening this month

September 3, 2020

AREA15, a purpose-built experiential art and entertainment complex in Las Vegas, Nevada, will open its doors Sept. 17 at 6 p.m. and those wishing to visit the…

VR market to reach $20B by 2025

September 2, 2020

The virtual reality market will reach $20.9 billion by 2025, according to a report by MarketsandMarkets. It will also grow at a compound annual growth rate of…

ICX Summit postponed till June 2021

September 2, 2020

The Interactive Customer Experience Summit has been postponed until June 2, 2021 due to travel restrictions related to COVID-19. The rescheduled event will…

MoneyGram expands digital network

September 2, 2020

International, Inc. a global leader in cross-border P2P payments and money transfers, is partnering with fintech payment network, Thunes, to enable MoneyGram…

A PCI DSS checklist for CIOs worried about work from home security

by harish bhat — MD, ESQ Management solutions inc

Harish Bhat, principal partner at CyberLabs360, shares five strategies to ensure your retail enterprise is compliant with PCI DSS compliance mandates given all…

Luxury brand taps Searchspring to boost online search conversion results

September 2, 2020

Badgley Mischka, a luxury apparel brand, has boosted search conversion by 85% in its online store after deploying Searchspring's technology.

Convenience 2.0: Lessons learned and next steps for c-stores post pandemic

by Gavin Bisdee — vp global marketing, Zynstra

Gavin Bisdee, group marking director at Zynstra, an NCR company, offers insight regarding the levels of convenience customers now expect during the buying…

Ireland retailer piloting mobile self-checkout technology

August 31, 2020

BWG Foods, an Ireland retailer and wholesaler, is partnering with MishiPay on a pilot scan/pay/go checkout initiative.

Massachusetts town deploying kiosk for bill payments

August 31, 2020

Marshfield, Massachusetts, will allow residents and visitors to pay bills at a kiosk from CityBase, a provider of cloud technology solutions for the public…

How COVID19 is changing commerce forever

by Rish Sharma

Rish Sharma, founder and CEO of Mallama, predicts that as e-commerce continues to fuel the battle for convenience and habitual buying behavior, frictionless…

DeCurtis deploys thermal shield kiosk at Seattle zoo

August 28, 2020

DeCurtis Corp., a provider of location and proximity enabled solutions, has launched its DeCurtis Shield at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington, in a…

Zara taps dLocal for Paraguay, Uruguay e-commerce operations

August 28, 2020

Retailer Zara is deploying the dLocal payments platform for e-commerce operations in Uruguay and Paraguay and the technology is enhancing the online shopping…

Contactless Payments Across Multiple Verifone Devices

With COVID-19 promising to remain an issue for the foreseeable future, contactless payments will continue to increase in popularity.

Preparing for a pandemic holiday season

by Sanjeev Sularia

Sanjeev Sularia, CEO and co-founder of Intelligence Node, writes that the key to a successful holiday sales season are efforts and investments focused on…

On Track Innovations teams with EVO Payments on unattended retail

August 27, 2020

EVO Payments, Inc., a provider of payment technology integrations and acquiring solutions, is teaming up with On Track Innovations Ltd., a provider of cashless…

Contactless payments program usage rises on New York subway

August 26, 2020

New York subway riders using Omny, a contactless payment service, has risen by 168% since August 2019, and by 50% since May 2020.