Acquiring

Buy now, pay later specialist Affirm Holdings Inc. continues to expand into fashion merchants through a partnership with online fashion-marketplace StockX. Apparel merchants are a fast-growing merchant category for Affirm. The BNPL provider has added 55 apparel sellers in the past six months, including StockX. In addition, transactions in its apparel and …

Shift4 Payments Inc. has chosen ordering-technology provider Lunchbox Technologies as a partner for Shift4’s SkyTab platform and has also invested in the company. The extent of the investment was not disclosed. Meanwhile, Lunchbox has appointed hospitality-industry veteran James Walker chief executive. Ingo Money Inc. said its Ingo Payments service agreed to work …

Processor Priority Technology Holdings reported fourth-quarter 2024 revenue of $$227.1 million, up 13.9% year-over-year. Revenue for the year totaled $879.7 million, up 16.4% over 2023. The company’s net income swung to a positive $7.2 million for the quarter from a $106,000 loss a year earlier. For the full year, net income was …

The Federal Reserve announced its FedNow real-time payments network this summer will raise its transaction limit to $1 million from $500,000. FedNow was launched in 2023. Kasheesh Inc. launched a loyalty program called Kasheesh Rewards, aimed at letting users earn rewards based on spending. Kasheesh’s platform allows users to split transactions across credit, debit, and …

Most restaurants feel their current financial technology stack, which includes point-of-sale systems, needs improvement, according to SpotOn Transact LLC’s 2025 Restaurant Business report. SpotOn’s survey found 84% of restaurants say their current financial systems need an overhaul. Of those, nearly half say they should spend more time on financial tracking, …

Rumors about an acquisition of Paysafe Ltd. have swirled around the company for nearly a month, and the processor’s top management early Tuesday were in no hurry to add fuel to the speculation. “We’re going to stick to no real comment,” said chief executive Bruce Lowthers while addressing an equity …

Compliance services provider LegitScript released a suite of services to help with merchant risk management. Among them is its Xray AI Risk Intelligence platform that can help with scanning merchant Web sites for card network violations, automatically detecting merchant category codes, and matching merchants against LegitScript’s risk intelligence database. Visa Inc. is working …

Zip Co. Ltd. has partnered with GameStop to become the e-commerce retailer’s primary buy now, pay later provider for online and in-store customers in the United States. The deal provides Zip with a ready-made customer base, as about 84% of Zip users in the U.S. shop on GameStop for gaming …

A 3-year-old technology enabling merchants to accept contactless payments using a regular smart phone with no special hardware has bloomed with a global year-over-year growth rate of 200%. That rate is even higher in the United States, United Kingdom, and Brazil, the three countries with the highest adoption rates, Visa …

Fiserv Inc. said it has closed on its previously announced acquisition of Payfare Inc., a Toronto-based earned-wage access firm, for approximately $193 million Canadian, or $133 million U.S. Health-care payments provider RevSpring Inc. launched Let’s Talk, a virtual agent created via artificial intelligence to handle inbound calls from patients, including answering questions and …