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 …

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 …

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 …

The ride-sharing service Uber will expand its use of payments services from Adyen NV to cover more geographies and will make use of Adyen’s Checkout API product for a wider choice of payment methods, the companies announced. Honor Capital said it is working with ePayPolicy to offer financing when insured customers are making premium …

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 …

Payments platform Corpay Inc. said its revenue rose 21% year-over-year in the December quarter to $1.25 billion. Net income totaled $264.5 million, up 8%. Transactions in vehicle payments, the company’s largest business, came to 221.9 million, up 7%. Nacha, the regulatory body for the automated clearing house network, announced participants have been elected …

Bolt Financial Inc., whose app offers checkout, identity, and payments capabilities, announced it is adding embedded investing capability through a deal with Atomic, an investing-as-a-service platform. Corpay Inc. said it will sell its PayByPhone mobile parking payments platform to Lightyear Capital in a deal expected to close in the second quarter. …

Visa Inc. announced Visa Direct, its near real-time payment service soon will offer cross-border money movement into the Chinese mainland via a partnership with UnionPay International, the Chinese card brand. The Fiserv Small Business Index, which tracks small business transaction activity across the Fiserv Inc. merchant base, declined one point to 143 …

Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Holdings Inc. will be the exclusive pay-over-time provider integrated with QuickBooks Payments under an agreement announced by QuickBooks provider Intuit Inc. and Affirm. BizTrip AI, whose technology uses AI to help manage payments and other functions in corporate travel, raised $1.5 million in new funding led …