ETA Releases U.S. Retail Holiday Spending Report Card

Household Appliance Stores, Lumber & Building Stores, and Automotive Tire Stores will be among the “winners” in December consumer spending, according to ETA’s U.S. Retail Holiday Spending Report Card, powered by TSG. TSG used predictive modeling . . .

EMV Shift at the Pump Delayed

Recently, both Visa and MasterCard announced an extension of the EMV liability shift date for automated fuel dispensers (AFD), from October 2017 to October 2020. In many cases, in order to upgrade to EMV entire . . .

Visa to Acquire CardinalCommerce

Visa, an ETA member company, has announced that it will acquire CardinalCommerce, an e-commerce payment authentication provider based in Ohio. Through the deal, which is expected to close during the second quarter of 2017, Cardinal . . .

ETA & ControlScan Release New Data on POS Decisions

ETA, together with ControlScan, a trusted security and compliance partner to the payments industry, has released new payments research data on point-of-sale (POS) technology adoption by small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). The ControlScan-ETA POS Technology . . .

POS Messaging Increases Mobile Payments

USA Technologies Inc. (USAT), a payments provider which facilitates cashless transactions at vending machines, has completed a six-month point-of-sale advertising test, encouraging consumers to choose Apple Pay. The study found that when the message “Pay . . .

Black Friday Payments Predictions

As shoppers gear up to catch Black Friday deals, TransUnion’s early-October 2016 survey of 1,083 Americans over age 18 asked how consumers plan to pay this holiday season. Among those surveyed, most plan to pay . . .

Vantiv to Acquire Moneris

ETA member company Vantiv has announced that it will acquire Moneris USA, also an ETA member company. In the press release on the acquisition, Angela Brown, President and CEO of Moneris and 2015 winner of . . .