Gett Technologies Inc. has launched First Party Everywhere, a facility allowing restaurants to take orders through AI assistants, video games, connected TVs, social platforms, consumer app, and in hotels. The company says it has signed 40,000 restaurants for its technology. The service, which runs through a restaurant’s existing ordering platform, …

Global Payments Inc.’s top management early Thursday reported broad plans for its crucial Genius point-of-sale system while outlining its near-term approach to such critical technologies as artificial intelligence and its close relative, agentic commerce. The Genius technology, launched in the spring of last year, has now grown into “the flagship …

Circle Internet Group Inc. early Wednesday offered indications that digital money—specifically, stablecoins—is now moving steadily into mainstream finance. With partner companies, “we’re building the financial and economic infrastructure for the Internet, and upgrading the system for a world where people, businesses, and AI agents all transact onchain,” noted cofounder and …

NumbersGame, a developer of software for accounting, announced integrations with the payments platforms Stripe and Square, and with accounting-software developer Ramp. The venture, intended for accounting operations using the Claude, Copilot, or ChaptGPT AI technologies, allows clients’ revenue to be handled by Stripe or Square, with spending attended to by …

Smaller Canadian merchants are skating on thin ice as the holiday season approaches, according to survey results from the payments provider Adyen NV. The company’s research indicates merchants are battling soft consumer spending as well as mounting costs and tariff headaches, leaving little margin for further pressure, Adyen says. Such …

One of the biggest trends in payments these days is agentic commerce, and the major card networks are making sure they can master the trend on behalf of banks and merchants. The payoff can be substantial. “AI is changing how commerce happens, and that leads to more transactions for Mastercard,” …

Visa Inc. late Tuesday reported a strong September quarter featuring a 13% year-over-year  rise in revenue to $12.1 billion, generating GAAP net income of $6 billion. The financial momentum stemmed from a 9.5% increase in payments volume, to $4.08 trillion in constant dollars. For the full fiscal year ending Sept. …

The Federal Reserve is now required to rewrite the key interchange limits included in a controversial 15-year-old debit card rule following a federal appeals court decision Monday striking down an interchange cap the Fed established in 2011. The Fed could still appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. Interchange, …

The U.S. Faster Payments Council on Friday released guidelines for messages that financial institutions use in association with real-time payments or other transfers processed within a matter of hours or minutes. Such messaging can cover matters related to payment requests, return of money, payment status reports, and exchange of other …