Visa Inc. on Wednesday announced the rollout in 15 geographic markets of Visa Tap to Phone, which allows consumers to initiate a transaction simply by tapping a contactless card to a merchant’s NFC-enabled mobile device.  Tap to Phone is now live in numerous countries throughout Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia …

Momentum is building fast for card acceptance on ordinary mobile phones. And now Apple could be the next player in this increasingly important game. The drive to turn mobile devices into point-of-sale terminals without requiring a plug-in card-acceptance device, such as a dongle, got a big shot in the arm …

Beauty-products marketer Avon International has recruited payments provider Apexx Global to process consumer payments to Avon representatives across global markets. Apexx supports credit and debit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Android Pay as well as local payment methods.As the holiday shopping season nears, 39% of merchants surveyed by PayPal Holdings Inc. plan to sell …

With the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating consumers’ use of contactless cards and mobile wallets, merchants can expect hackers to target contactless transaction data at the point-of-sale, says Ruston Miles, founder and advisor at Atlanta-based Bluefin Payment Systems LLC. The main point of vulnerability in a contactless environment at the physical point-of-sale …

Sound Payments Inc., a multichannel technology provider that offers point-of-sale solutions for the petroleum industry, expects its partnership with National Retail Solutions, a subsidiary of IDT Corp., to accelerate adoption of EMV at in-pump card readers among independent gas stations and convenience stores. Sounds Payments argues its EMV in-pump card …

Here’s a look at the impact integrated payments can have on the vet industry. The global veterinary-services market is projected to reach $200 billion in 2020. Indeed, the landscape is quickly evolving, creating more demanding needs from practice managers looking to reduce costs, improve the customer experience, and generate revenue. …

Independent sales organization Electronic Merchant Systems said it is working with Womply, a software and data-services provider for small businesses, to help merchants find lenders offering quick access to loan applications through the government’s Paycheck Protection Program, a Covid-19 relief effort.For the first time, ransomware incidents overtook payment card data when comparing the …

Visa Inc. is urging e-commerce merchants still using Adobe Inc.’s Magento 1 platform to upgrade to the newer Magento Commerce 2.3 because Magento will stop supporting Magento 1 at the end of June. Merchants continuing to use the older platform will fall out of compliance with the Payment Card Industry …

It seems there’s nothing hazy about the future of cloud-based POS. What’s driving the trend? Cloud computing is a part of daily life. Whether it’s banking online, making a P2P payment, streaming movies on a smart television, or sending an email (think Gmail), most software applications, data storage, and networking …

Airport restaurant and retail operator OTG Experience LLC says it will be one of the first retailers to use Amazon.com Inc.’s “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology, the system that powers Amazon’s Amazon Go stores, when it opens a CIBO Express Gourmet Market next week in Terminal C of Newark Liberty International Airport.A technology …