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IHS Markit researchers predict the global user base for smartphones will rise to 6 billion by 2020, up from 4 billion in 2016. Smartphone and

Due to changing consumer behavior and advances in mobile communications, payments analysts expect real-time payments to become a reality in 2017. The Faster Payments Task Force,

Whether they write a few or a thousand deals a month, most merchant level salespeople (MLSs) agree that theirs is a relationship business. Changing technology

Cards – credit, and especially debit – continue to lead the charge toward noncash payments in the United States, and card-not-present (CNP) transactions are rising

The NFC Forum released new specifications intended to enable near field communication (NFC)-enabled devices to communicate more broadly. The NFC Forum is a standards body

A number of security analysts believe Yahoo Inc.’s recently disclosed data breaches constitute yet another wake-up call to the security community, which is tasked with keeping

A vibrant stock market index and historically high ecommerce spending during the 2016 holiday season have led to bullish predictions for payments and retail in 2017.

As the saying goes, you can’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been. With that in mind, we’ve prepared an overview of

The National ATM Council Inc. and 13 independent ATM operators will get their day in court with Visa Inc., Mastercard and assorted card-issuing banks. The