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Having launched Mastercard Agent Suite in January, the card brand is expanding the service to make it easier for merchants to create and deploy AI-enabled shopping experiences. It also is launching Mastercard Agent Connect, a service that helps merchants, AI agents, platforms, and payment providers connect and transact via a …
September, 2026
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10 September
Square Scoops up Whit’s Frozen Custard; Setomatic Unveils SpyderWash for Laundromats
Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit said early Thursday it will support transactions at just under 100 locations belonging to Whit’s Frozen Custard, a 23-year-old restaurant chain based in Granville, Ohio. The move comes as the chain begins planning expansion to more locations. Whit’s, which operates stores in 11 states located …
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10 September
Checkout Begins U.S. Acquiring and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/10/26
Checkout.com launched direct acquiring in the United States under its Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank charter in Georgia. Mastercard Inc. announced Mastercard Wallet Pay, a set of technologies enabling interoperability and encouraging innovation among wallets for contactless and online payments. Some 4.3 billion persons globally now use digital wallets, a number expected …
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9 September
Building a successful payments strategy: How ISOs and ISVs can drive scalable growth together
The future is not ISOs versus ISVs. It’s ISOs and ISVs working together. By: Josh Bennett, Vice President of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank | Elavon The payments industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, driven by innovations such as agentic commerce, instant payments, and embedded financial services. …
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9 September
SpotOn Pairs with Maple and Lands Ruby Chow’s in Atlanta
SpotOn Transact LLC is enlisting Maple Inc., an artificial-intelligence voice-platform firm for restaurants, as an integrated service in its point-of-sale suite. San Francisco-based SpotOn says Maple’s AI platform will deliver a native POS sync for users so phone orders captured by Maple flow directly through the POS system into the …
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9 September
Just 23% Trust AI: Visa and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/9/26
Some 72% of U.S. consumers have used an AI assistant for shopping, but just 23% trust AI to manage payments, according to the Visa Trust Index for agentic commerce. The survey took place May 26-28 among a sample of 2,065 consumers, though the sample for the payment transaction question was 1,028 to …
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8 September
Eye on Ticketing: Six Flags Picks Flex Pay’s BNPL; Visa Canada Renews Film Festival Deal
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is adding the Flex Pay buy now, pay later payment method from Upgrade Inc. to enable guests to make installment payments for season passes and other products. In related news, Visa Canada renewed its partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival, noting that 2027 will be …
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8 September
Circle Acquires Tazapay; Visa’s Stablecoin Lending Venture
The stablecoin-payments platform Circle Internet Group Inc. said early Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Tazapay, a business-to-business cross-border payments technology developer based in Singapore and serving financial institutions and payment-service providers. Tazapay processes more than $25 billion in payment volume annually, of which approximately 60% includes stablecoins. The parties …
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8 September
AEON’s Agentic Checkout Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/8/26
AEON, a settlement platform for online payments, launched Agentic Checkout, which enables AI agents to shop, check out, and pay on e-commerce sites such as Shopify and Amazon. Buy now, pay later and payments specialist Klarna AB said its payment method is an option on StockX, a marketplace for apparel and cultural …
