Toast Inc. is coming on strong when it comes to adding new locations for its point-of-sale system, with 7,500 net new locations added in the third quarter. That brings it locations total to 156,000 globally as of Sept. 30. It added 8,500 locations in the second quarter and more than …
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Paze, the online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, may usher in a new phase for the service in 2026. That’s the suggestion from Eric Hoffman, chief partnerships officer at EWS. “2025 was a big year in building partnerships and we’re excited to see the fruits of those efforts,” …
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As agentic commerce develops, payments and technology companies are teaming up to ensure this next permutation of e-commerce is available to merchants and consumers. PayPal Holdings Inc. and Google Cloud are the latest examples with the announcement of a service that combines Google Cloud’s Conversational Commerce agent with PayPal’s payments …
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Buy now, pay later providers continue to make inroads in payments, with Splitit Payments Ltd. integrating a service to make it easier for banks to offer their customers installment plans at checkout. Meanwhile, Affirm Holdings Inc. expanded how it works with processor Worldpay LLC by integrating its BNPL service into …
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Already known for online payments, PayPal Holdings Inc. is prepping another online-acceptance service, this one for merchants using the BigCommerce e-commerce platform. Announced Monday, the new service will be embedded into the BigCommerce platform under the BigCommerce Payments moniker. It is expected to launch in the United States in 2026, …
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The artificial-intelligence boom in payments is rushing on, with two major players going further along the AI commerce road. Mastercard Inc., having announced Mastercard Agent Pay earlier this year, has launched its Agent Pay Acceptance Framework. This service begins with registering and verifying AI agents before they are allowed to …
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Nacha members have approved five rule changes meant to boost the use and efficiency of international automated clearing house transactions. International ACH transactions totaled $270.96 billion in value in 2024 on 120.99 million payments, Nacha says. Announced Tuesday, the changes address clearing up what is an international automated clearing house …
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Six months after fully revising its point-of-sale app and adding modes to enable merchants to tailor it to their needs, the acquirer is out now with what it says is its largest update to its food and beverage platform. Square, a unit of Block Inc., also released updates to Square …
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American Express Co. cardholders are about to see targeted ads from premium brands on some AmEx-owned platforms. Announced Monday, Amex Ads is a digital advertising platform to help brands reach the issuer’s 34 million U.S. cardholders. It begins on AmexTravel.com and will expand to other AmEx-owned platforms. AmEx says this …
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Peoples Bank apparently likes what Deluxe Corp. has been doing for the Marietta, Ohio-based bank because it added Deluxe’s merchant services to its roster of services. The bank placed a part of its promotional business with Minneapolis-based Deluxe in January and added checks in March. Merchant services, under the One …
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