News

October, 2026

• 19 October

  Fiserv Makes its Commerce Hub Available Globally

  

  Fiserv Inc. is bringing global availability to its Commerce Hub, which allows enterprise-size merchants to manage payments via a single link to Fiserv, the processor says. First offered in beta testing in 2022, Commerce Hub offers users a single integration for onboarding, APIs, reporting, and operational controls for Fiserv merchant services. …
• 19 October

  Square Enlists Marqeta for Its Business-Oriented Credit Card Program

  

  Square has adopted services from card-issuing platform Marqeta for the Square Credit Card, a business card aimed at use by merchants. The card runs on the American Express network and is part of an effort by Square to consolidate its card programs into a single processor. Square, a unit of …
• 19 October

  KORT Acquires AptPay and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/19/26

  

  KORT Payments said it will acquire AptPay Inc. to aid its expansion across North America. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Both companies are based in Canada. Third-quarter spending on debit cards tracked in the Q3 2026 SoFi Tech Solutions Debit Spend Index increased 7.4% and transactions increased 5.9% …
• 16 October

  PAX Enlists Wink’s Face and Palm Checkout at the Point of Sale

  

  Point-of-sale terminal maker PAX Technology Inc. says it is enabling a deeper integration of Wink’s biometric checkout technology into many PAX POS devices. The integration means merchants that use the PAX PxRetailer and PxDesigner applications will be able to add Wink’s biometric enrollment and checkout capabilities to their PAX devices. …
• 16 October

  Marqeta Works With Coinbase on Cards Backed by Stablecoins

  
• 16 October

  CDE Enlists Bodega AI in New Platform and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/16/26

  

  CDE Solutions, a provider of retail point-of-sale technology, said it has worked with Bodega AI to develop an AI-based point-of-sale platform for independent retailers. Self Labs has launched Agent Vault, a payment and log-in layer requiring AI agents to sign in to make purchases on behalf of human shoppers without seeing …
• 15 October

  Initiatives From Mastercard And Visa Bring Stablecoin Payments Closer to the Mainstream

  

  Two of the world’s largest payments networks early Thursday announced programs geared to bring stablecoins further into the mainstream of money movement. Visa Inc. said its Visa Direct faster-payments platform is launching a commercial service that will incorporate stablecoins. And Mastercard Inc., with its BVNK unit, launched Mastercard Global Money …
• 14 October

  Square Injects AI and a Larger Display into its Kiosk POS Device

  

  A little more than two years since introducing its Kiosk product for restaurants, Square has revised the device by making it larger and adding artificial intelligence features to its ordering system. Announced Wednesday, the updated Kiosk moves away from a tablet-like appearance, which relied on the restaurant operator providing an …
• 14 October

  Accertify Tallies Agentic Checkout  and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/15/26

  

  Accertify Inc. released a post outlining the distinction between agentic shopping and agentic checkout, concluding that agentic checkout, when an AI completes a purchase on its own, is less than 1% of transactions measured in basis points per Accertify data. Independent sales organization Deposyt expanded its partner program to three …
• 14 October

  As BNPL Matures, Splitit and Zip Diversify Their Products

  

  As the modern, online-based buy now, pay later market has matured, the type of products from BNPL providers has diversified. Splitit USA Inc. will launch the Splitit World Mastercard credit card as a white-label offer for financial institutions while Zip Co Ltd. intends to debut Zip Cash, a same-day cash …