E-Commerce

Hoot Host launched an expanded version of its software-with-a-service product for online businesses, including payments acceptance through PayPal, Square, and Stripe. The cryptocurrency exchange OKX, based in the Seychelles and with a regional headquarters in San Jose, Calif., received a Payment Institution license in Malta, a move that will allow the company …

Fiserv Inc. has launched INDX, a real-time cash-settlement platform that enables digital-asset companies to store and transfer U.S. dollars at all hours and every day in real time. Digital-asset companies can use INDX to move dollars into a single custodial account insured up to $25 million by the Federal Deposit …

Restaurant point-of-sale specialist Toast Inc. announced its December-quarter gross payment volume grew 22% year-on-year to $51.4 billion, while total locations reached 164,000, up 22%, and net income totaled $101 million, more than triple the sum a year earlier. For the full year, GPV totaled $195.1 billion, up 23%, while net income swelled …

Sabre Corp., a technology provider to the travel industry, has partnered with PayPal Holdings Inc. and Mindtrip, an artificial intelligence-based travel-planning platform, to create agentic-commerce experiences for consumers booking travel online. Sabre will leverage Mindtrip’s agentic-consumer platform and PayPal’s agentic-commerce services and protocol to create a single travel-booking platform that …

Any bump up in an e-commerce site’s conversion rate could ripple through the merchant’s financial results. Processor Adyen NV hopes its new Personalize checkout service can aid these rates by enabling merchants to customize payment options for individual shoppers. Adyen says Personalize, a part of its Uplift payment optimization suite, …

Gaming-transactions specialist Pavilion Payments said it has agreed to acquire payments and automation contracts, along with technology assets, from DiTRONICS Financial Services, a funds-access platform serving casinos. Terms were not announced. Knot, an app linking consumers, merchants, and financial institutions, said it will work with Fiserv Inc. to enable Lyft drivers to more easily …

Adyen NV announced Personalize, a tool that lets businesses modify checkout pages in real time in response to shopper preferences. The new service is related to Adyen Uplift, a routing capability launched last year and aimed at increasing conversion rates. Lut, a cannabis-payments specialist, said it will work with Frankenmuth Credit …

Fiserv’s chief executive early Tuesday told Wall Street not to look for immediate improvement following a sub-par year in 2025. “Our headline results are below our expectations and will remain that way until mid-year,” chief executive Michael Lyons told equity analysts at the top of a group call with equity …

Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit announced the launch of SquareAI in the United Kingdom. The technology, which Square says is free to merchants, offers conversational AI intended to help business owners interpret their data and arrive at decisions faster. Payments provider Blue Payment Agency Inc. expanded its focus to help e-commerce sites, especially those …

Installment-payment platform Affirm Holdings Inc. said it will provide financing to customers of Virgin Media O2, a United Kingdom-based vender of mobile devices. In related news, Affirm said it has expanded its agreement with online merchant Wayfair to offer installment payments to consumers in Canada and the United Kingdom on top of the current …