Canadian consumers made 26.7 billion retail payments in 2025 totaling $12.9 trillion, up 5.7% in value over 2024, according to the Canadian Payment Methods and Trends Report released Tuesday by Payments Canada. Point-of-sale system maker NCR Voyix Corp. said its new integration with TruAge, a digital age-verification service, will help its …

Invoice-management platform Basware has closed on its acquisition of Trustpair, a fraud-prevention technology provider focused on payments. Terms were not disclosed. The deal was announced in late August. The digital-asset trading platform XT Exchange launched a scan-to-pay capability for its XT Pay service, allowing XT app users to make purchases …

Consumers in New York City have a new option for canceling their online subscriptions with new rules issued by Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani becoming effective Thursday, Oct. 1. The click-to-cancel rules require subscription providers to make it as easy to cancel as it was to sign up. A similar federal …

E-commerce payments provider FastSpring announced it has introduced Cash App Pay as a payment method for its checkout. Block Inc. launched Cash App Pay on Square in 2021 and extended it to external sites the next year. Grocery chain The Kroger Co. launched its Kroger Rewards World Elite Mastercard, a credit card offering rewards good for …

Two-thirds of consumers walk away from a payment process that requires more than three steps, according to “The Competition for Consumer Payments,” a report from Datos Insights sponsored by SBT, a payments platform specializing in regulated industries. Datos surveyed 2,000 U.S. consumers in the second quarter for the report. 934 Ltd., …

Bank of America Corp. said its transaction volume flowing on the RTP network, an instant payment service operated by The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, increased 48% from January through July compared with the same period in 2025. Much of that is attributed to RTP’s transaction limit increase to $10 …

American Express Co. announced its cards are now accepted at more than 190 million merchant locations globally, including 20 million added so far this year. Beyond its longtime base in hotels, restaurants, and airlines, AmEx says it is now accepted at an estimated 800-plus transit authorities globally. Chase said it has begun …

Point-of-sale technology provider Finix announced client businesses can now build and deploy custom Android applications for POS terminals managed by Finix, which says the capability gives merchants broader control over ordering, checkout, and post-payment functions. Vanco, a payments provider for churches, schools, and nonprofits, said it is working with church-technology platform ACS …

Scooter’s Coffee, a drive-through chain with more than 900 locations in 32 states, is using restaurant-payments specialist Olo to run its digital-ordering service, Olo announced. SumUp has launched U.S. POS Plus, a subscription-based point-of-sale technology offering for small café and restaurant businesses. Square, the merchant services arm of Block Inc., said its sellers …

Processor NMI said it has expanded its NMI Business Capital program, offering new term loans and starter offers that ISOs, software companies, and software-as-a-service companies can offer merchants. U.S. consumers now expect AI agents to conduct 15% of their transactions, up from 9% a year ago, while 45% of Americans have used …