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Mobile point-of-sale company AnywhereCommerce will add near-field communications (NFC) payment capability to its mobile hardware in coming weeks, signaling a further shift along its path to becoming a cloud-based payments gateway. That’s the word from William Nichols, Anywhere Commerce’s chief executive. That strategy, implemented about six months ago when Nichols …
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An Interbank Fee Is a Fly in the Ointment for Retailers Reacting to Same-Day ACH Idea
Merchants that have spent years battling card-acceptance fees are turning a jaundiced eye toward a proposal to speed up payments on the nation’s automated clearing house network. That’s because the same-day settlement proposal, floated in December by NACHA, the ACH’s rules-setting organization, contains a so-called interbank fee that, for some …
Read More »EMV Helps Drive VeriFone’s North American Revenues to a Record
Point-of-sale terminal maker VeriFone Systems Inc. continued to ride the U.S. EMV chip card wave in its first quarter of fiscal 2015 as sales of EMV-compliant payment card acceptance systems helped lift North American revenues by 31% to a quarterly record. The San Jose, Calif.-based company late Tuesday reported revenues …
Read More »Why Payments Are Crucial
Payments 3.0 The Numbers Seldom Tell the Story. Of all the statistics published about payments, none specifically provides an indication of whether or not banks are holding on to their payments franchise. One statistic, however, shapes the debate (or should): The total number of payments made expands no faster than …
Read More »Apple Data Indicate U.S. Contactless Payment Locations Have Nearly Tripled
Apple Inc. chief executive Tim Cook said Monday that nearly 700,000 U.S. merchant locations now accept the Apple Pay mobile-payment service, compared with the 220,000 locations reported to have accepted the service when it launched last October. Since Apple Pay relies on near-field communication (NFC) contactless technology to enable Apple’s iPhone …
Read More »Shopify Makes App Free and Expands POS Service to iPhones
Online-commerce company Shopify Inc. has made its Shopify POS app free for its merchants and introduced an iPhone version of the payments service, the company recently announced. The app, which launched in 2013, includes a card reader. The new app replaces the Accept Payment option in Shopify Mobile, the Ottawa, Ontario-based company’s …
Read More »Apple Pay Is Helping Sell Phones And Drive Transactions, But With Caveats
When Apple Inc. launched its Apple Pay mobile-payments service in October, the computing giant hoped the new wallet would help sell smart phones and banks hoped it would help drive transactions on their cards. Now new research indicates both hopes are being realized, but the risk for financial institutions may …
Read More »Costco’s Post-AmEx Credit Card Plans Include Visa but Exclude MasterCard
By Jim Daly The big warehouse retailer Costco Wholesale Corp. announced Monday an agreement with Citigroup Inc. to replace its current cobranded card from American Express Co. next April with a Citi-issued Visa credit card. But Costco also announced a companion agreement with Visa Inc. under which other Visa-branded credit …
Read More »A Rumor No More, Samsung Pay To Debut This Summer Using LoopPay Technology
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is joining the mobile-wallet and payments fray with its expected launch this summer of Samsung Pay, a service that uses near-field communication (NFC) and technology from LoopPay Inc. it recently acquired. Samsung Pay, available on the coming Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge smart phones this summer, could …
Read More »Paydiant Could Provide PayPal With the Elusive Key to the Point of Sale
When it comes to general-purpose mobile payments, PayPal Inc. is far and away the leader, having posted $46 billion in mobile charge volume last year. But recently, the mobile-payments spotlight has been trained on Apple Inc. with its new Apple Pay service, Google Inc. and the suddenly brightening prospects for …
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