Acquiring

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s shares fell early Friday following news reports late Thursday that Stripe and Advent have abandoned their pursuit of the payments giant. PayPal’s board reportedly spurned the Stripe/Advent offer of $53 billion, or $60.50 per share, as too low. PayPal’s shares were trading at $61.47 at the market’s close Thursday. Some 47% …

Neighborhoods, a service launched by Block Inc. in October to connect its sellers with its Cash App users, has added 30,000 sellers since the end of June. Block, and its Square acquiring unit, intended for Neighborhoods to create a local commerce network for both merchants and consumers. Neighborhoods provides sellers …

Priority Technology Holdings Inc. announced within a two-day span a processor acquisition and a deal to process ticket payments for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. The Alpharetta, Ga.-based processor said early Wednesday it has agreed to acquire Convenient Payments, which does business as IntelliPay, a privately …

Miracle Pay, a provider of payments technology for merchants, said it will work with zerohash, a provider of cryptocurrency technology, to enable stablecoin acceptance at both physical and online merchants. At the point of sale, consumers will use crypto wallets on their phones to fund transactions. A survey of 1,000 consumers …

New research from Coresight Research and point-of-sale provider Aptos finds that, despite more than 20 years since the first cloud-based point-of-sale system debuted, many retailers still have yet to make the move fully to such systems. In the “Retail POS Modernization: Strategic and Financial Case for Transformation” report, commissioned by …

The combination will expand Israel-based Nayax’s reach by adding the 250,000 parking spaces San Diego-based IPS controls in the U.S. and Canada, as well as in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The locations include city street spaces as well as college-campus and commercial slots. IPS manages the spaces through smart …

Fraud-detection provider Accertify said it has gained HIPAA compliance, allowing the company to offer more services to health-care organizations. Bluefin Payment Systems LLC said it now offers point-of-sale products for card-present payments integrated with Visa Acceptance Solutions.  Centerbase, a software provider to law firms, said it has integrated the electronic billing technology BillSync …

Paysafe has launched a video gaming arena, built on its PaysafeCard and PaysafeWallet products, for players, developers, and publishers. The company says the initiative is intended to widen its gaming franchise beyond payments with features such as game discovery and recommendations, rewards, promotions, and events. Global Payments Inc. kicked off Genius World, …

Payments companies continue to court potentially lucrative software integration deals with PSQ Holdings Inc. among the latest to do so. West Palm Beach, Fla.-based PSQ says its PSQ Payments unit will supply credit and debit card and automated clearing house payments, along with instant payment processing via FedNow and RTP …

Walmart Inc. said it will add contactless payments to point-of-sale terminals at select Walmart and Sam’s Club stores and plans to make it available at U.S. locations by the end of 2026. The tap-and-pay method will come to its fuel stations by mid-2027. Walmart is among the most recent of the …