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Paying Attention to Unattended Payments

The segment could play a key role in expanding electronic payments as fewer consumers carry cash. Factors ranging from payments to technology companies to changing consumer behavior are heightening attention to unattended payments. While electronic payment acceptance in this space, which includes vending machines, parking garages, and car washes, has …

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The Meaning of PSD2

Europe’s new payments regulation promises much, including free transactions. But do banks need to be forced to do what’s in the best interests of customers and shareholders? The European Union’s revised payment-services directive (PSD2) changes rules governing payments and is intended to, and inevitably will, impact the roles and economics …

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How the Wal-Mart/Google Partnership Against Amazon Affects Payments

There are plenty of opportunities for payments providers—if they play the game right, say Rick Oglesby and Brad Margol. Major retailers fear business disruption from Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., and Google/Alphabet, but they are already locked in head-to-head competition with Amazon.com Inc., and Amazon is clearly winning. It has climbed …

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BluePay To Offer Datacap Product and other Digital Transactions News briefs

Payments provider BluePay Processing LLC said it will offer TranCloud, an EMV-enabled payments application from Datacap Systems Inc., to merchants. ATM network operator Cardtronics plc said the Speedway convenience-store chain added ATMs at 1,500 stores in eight states to Cardtronics’ Allpoint Network, which means that all 2,550 ATMs in 20 states where Speedway operates …

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A Merchant Focus Tops Tech Savvy in Integrated POS Systems Sales, A New Report Says

Marketers of integrated, cloud-based point-of-sale systems take note. It’s not enough to have full-featured service replete with multiple functions. It also takes a sales approach that is responsive and knowledgeable. That may sound like common-sense idea, but it’s one that has been vetted by The Strawhecker Group in its “The …

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Electronic Billing’s Mobile Moment

Popular with billers, but less so with consumers, electronic bill payment and presentment is enjoying a new lease on life thanks to mobile users. Since its introduction more than a decade ago, electronic bill presentment has been popular with billers eager to take advantage of the cost savings the technology …

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The Future of Payments: Standards, Interoperability, And Access

Proprietary standards for crucial technologies like EMV and tokenization are crimping competition in the payments industry. Here’s how to fix that. As new payments technologies evolve and quickly become mainstream, businesses and consumers should have the whole story. The public has been told these new technologies are stronger and more …

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