Samsung Pay gains in-app payments, instant coupons

Samsung Pay users can now complete transactions through MasterCard's Masterpass digital wallet.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 26, 2016

PayPal adds new payment features through Facebook Messenger

The payments company will make it easier for consumers to link their PayPal accounts to the social networking giant's services.  

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 24, 2016

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The state of retail operations

Daily operations have changed tremendously over the past few years, as retailers re-examine topics including shrink and fulfillment. 

By Retail Dive staff

Google teams with Visa, MasterCard to expand Android Pay checkout

Starting next year, Android Pay will be available at online merchants that already accept Visa Checkout and Masterpass digital wallet platforms.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 24, 2016

PayPal calms investor fears with positive third quarter earnings

The relief comes not just in the form of earnings numbers and improved future guidance, but also from its growth in users and mobile and global payment transactions.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 21, 2016

Stripe strikes back at rising e-commerce fraud with AI monitoring

With EMV chip card and terminal protections starting to reduce in-store payment fraud, the retail sector's attention is turning toward the growing issue of e-commerce fraud.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 20, 2016

CVS rolls out mobile payments to Pharmacy app nationwide

The company is going all-in on its app after piloting the feature for just two months earlier this year in the New York City metro area.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 19, 2016

Vera Bradley suffers hack of in-store payment systems

The women's accessories retailer revealed that customer payment cards used at its brick-and-mortar locations this summer may have been compromised.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 12, 2016

Alibaba's Ant aims to let virtual reality users pay with a nod

VR Pay users can enter password text through head movements, touch or simply staring at a point on virtual display.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 12, 2016

Alibaba's Ant Financial to delay IPO in favor of expansion

The online payments unit spun off from Alibaba ahead of the Chinese e-commerce giant’s own IPO two years ago.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 12, 2016

Staples enables Apple Pay through mobile site and app

The announcement comes two years after the retailer became one of Apple Pay's first supporters of in-store payments.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 9, 2016

Kohl's launches mobile payment app ahead of holidays

Kohl's Pay enables the retailer's 25 million branded cardholders to purchase products and apply rewards with their smartphone.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 5, 2016

MasterCard rolls out Identity Check Mobile biometric payments

The technology leverages authentication options like fingerprints or facial recognition to verify a cardholder’s identity.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 4, 2016

CardFlight: 78% of cards have EMV chips, AmEx leads the way

A year on from the nationwide fraud liability shift, 96% of AmEx cards are now EMV-enabled, the highest percentage of any payment card issuer.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 2, 2016

Alibaba forecasts record sales on Singles' Day

Alibaba brought in more than $14 billion in sales during its Nov. 11 Singles' Day shopping event last year, easily toppling its previous record of $9.3 billion.

By Daphne Howland • Sept. 27, 2016

Court rules retailers can't push customers away from American Express

A federal appeals court overturned a previous ruling on Monday, allowing the credit card company to block merchants from steering customers toward other companies’ lower-cost cards.

By Daphne Howland • Sept. 27, 2016

Forecast: Card payments to surpass cash payments for first time ever this year

Euromonitor International anticipates that total worldwide card payments by consumers will amount to $23.1 trillion in 2016, although cash is still used for about 85% of all transactions worldwide.

By Dan O'Shea • Sept. 26, 2016

Sam's Club rolls out scan-and-go mobile checkout to all stores

The service is also being tested at Wal-Mart’s namesake stores, but it’s not clear how many customers will use it without more perks piled on.

By Daphne Howland • Sept. 23, 2016

Experian: E-commerce fraud attack rate up 15% over 2015

Data suggests that stolen credit and debit cards, card numbers and identities are fueling incidents of "card not present" fraud.

By Dan O'Shea • Sept. 22, 2016

PayPal allows merchants to accept China's UnionPay

The partnership promises to boost cross-border e-commerce purchases by enabling more merchants to accept payments from Chinese consumers.

By Dan O'Shea • Sept. 18, 2016

MasterCard joins push into biometric security for online purchases

The credit card giant is planning to roll out solutions like fingerprint scanning and facial recognition as part of an increasing effort to bolster e-commerce security.

By Dan O'Shea • Sept. 15, 2016

Wal-Mart Canada's Visa ban extends to Manitoba

The retailer announced earlier this summer it would also stop accepting Visa in three Ontario locations amid a dispute over what the retailer calls "unacceptably high fees.”

By Daphne Howland • Sept. 15, 2016

BigCommerce adds support for Apple Pay transactions

Apple Pay eliminates manual entry of payment and shipping details when shopping on supported mobile or desktop devices.

By Dan O'Shea • Sept. 13, 2016

Alibaba buys biometric authentication startup EyeVerify

Forget traditional passcodes, EyeVerify's EyePrint ID technology authenticates shopper identities through eye-vein patterns.

By Dan O'Shea • Sept. 13, 2016

MasterCard: 88% of cards have EMV chips, 2M merchant locations chip-active

According to a survey MasterCard commissioned from Braun Research, 87% of U.S. consumers commonly use chip cards, up from 49% last year.

By Dan O'Shea • Sept. 12, 2016

Is Walmart Pay doomed to repeat CurrentC's mistakes?

Soon after the MCX retailer consortium pulled the plug on its CurrentC mobile payments platform, Wal-Mart rolled out its own Walmart Pay nationwide. The similarities between the two may spell trouble.

By Daphne Howland • Sept. 12, 2016