Acquiring

PayPal Holdings Inc. reported a 2% rise year-over-year in third-quarter net revenue, to $8.58 billion, on a 6% increase in total payment volume, to $487.1 billion. Payment transactions rose 7% to 6.796 billion, while active accounts, at 440 million, were virtually flat, rising 0.6%. GAAP net income fell 14%, to $1.07 …

Joining a trend building in the buy now, pay later payments sector to gain more control over their operations and offer more diversified services, Sezzle Inc. reported Thursday it has filed an application with the Comptroller of the Currency to charter a national bank to be known as Sezzle Bank …

Payments provider Viewpost has agreed to work with Birchstreet, a provider of hospitality-industry technology, to include AI-enabled embedded payments for hospitality customers. Oak View Group, operator of a network of live-entertainment venues, will offer its employees earned-wage access service through Payactiv throughout Oak View’s U.S. operations, involving more than 40 …

In the “In Other News” section of Wednesday’s issue of Digital Transactions News, Boost Payment Solutions was misidentified as Boost Payments. Digital Transactions regrets the error. Fresha, a booking and payments platform for beauty and wellness businesses, said its Fresha Capital offering for shops has lent more than $20 million …

Data-encryption platform Evervault launched Browser Tokens, a service for agentic-commerce developers to allow AI agents to conduct transactions without exposing payment cards, passwords, or other sensitive personal information to the agent or browser provider. Loyalty and customer marketing platform Wildfire Systems released its “Agentic Commerce’s Wallet Problem” report that found just 5% …

PAX Technology Inc. said it will work with engineering firm Omni Integration Inc. to launch PAX Edge, payment software designed to work with a range of gateway and backend environments, though not tied to a single processor. Cognizant announced it has a five-year agreement to install artificial intelligence technology for point-of-sale terminal …

Fiserv Inc. is bringing global availability to its Commerce Hub, which allows enterprise-size merchants to manage payments via a single link to Fiserv, the processor says. First offered in beta testing in 2022, Commerce Hub offers users a single integration for onboarding, APIs, reporting, and operational controls for Fiserv merchant services. …

KORT Payments said it will acquire AptPay Inc. to aid its expansion across North America. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Both companies are based in Canada. Third-quarter spending on debit cards tracked in the Q3 2026 SoFi Tech Solutions Debit Spend Index increased 7.4% and transactions increased 5.9% …

Point-of-sale terminal maker PAX Technology Inc. says it is enabling a deeper integration of Wink’s biometric checkout technology into many PAX POS devices. The integration means merchants that use the PAX PxRetailer and PxDesigner applications will be able to add Wink’s biometric enrollment and checkout capabilities to their PAX devices. …