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FIS Inc. is counting on its tie-in with the AI developer Anthropic to pay dividends across several fields, starting with the battle against fraud, the company said early Friday. “The first target is financial crime,” said FIS chief executive Stephanie Ferris early Friday. “The [AI] agent will reduce investigation time …

Point-of-sale system and services provider PAR Technology Corp. posted $124 million first-quarter revenue, a 19.3% increase from $103.9 million in the 2025 first quarter. Part of the increase is attributed to a 15% year-over-year increase in quarterly subscription service revenue. It had a quarterly loss of $16.2 million, narrower than the year …

A Colorado bill that would eliminate sales tax as part of the interchange fee calculation has moved to Gov. Jared Polis’s desk for review following passage Wednesday in the Colorado House. It passed a state Senate vote last week. Similar in some ways to the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, …

Point-of-sale technology provider NCR Voyix Corp. reported March-quarter revenue dipped slightly to $606 million compared to $612 million in the year-earlier period, led by a 6% slide in restaurant revenue, to $179 million. The company narrowed its net loss to $5 million from $17 million a year ago. Point-of-sale systems provider Aptos LLC said Boot …

One Fiserv Inc. business stood out in the processor’s first-quarter earnings. Clover, its point-of-sale system and services unit, saw a 12% increase in its gross payment volume from the same quarter in 2025. That is despite a 9% decrease in Clover’s first-quarter revenue from lower hardware and data and analytics …

Global Payments Inc. spent most of last year launching its Genius point-of-sale platform, and now its focus is on reaping a return on that substantial investment, part of a $1-billion technology program the Atlanta-based processor embarked on earlier this year. That initiative also comes as the company focuses on integrating …

Card-issuing platform Marqeta Inc. reported it processed $112 billion in transaction volume in the March quarter, up 33% year-over-year, generating revenue of $166 million, a 19% rise. Net income swung to a positive $8 million from an $8-million net loss a year ago. MoneyGram will work with the crypto platform Kraken worldwide to allow …

Two months into the job, PayPal Holdings Inc. president and chief executive Enrique Lores appears to harbor no illusions about the sprawling payments company’s position. “We need to make significant changes,” he said early Tuesday as he opened the company’s March-quarter earnings call. That imperative, he said, stems from several …

Fiserv Inc. posted revenue of $5 billion in the first quarter, a 2% decrease from $5.1 billion in the 2025 first quarter. By segment, merchant solution revenue was flat at $2.4 billion, though the operating margin for it fell to 26.4% from 34.2%. Fiserv’s financial solutions segment at $2.3 billion was …