Friday , December 12, 2025

Competitive Strategies

PayPal Adds Cash Back to BNPL for the Holidays And Expands BNPL to In-Store Purchases

PayPal Holdings Inc. announced it is offering 5% cash back to U.S. consumers using its buy now, pay later payment option for purchases through the end of the year. In addition, PayPal is rolling out its Pay Monthly BNPL option to in-store shoppers. The moves are expected to make PayPal’s …

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AmEx Employs Digital Ads To Help Brands Reach Its Cardholders

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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Global’s Genius for Education Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/6/25

Global Payments Inc. announced a version of its Genius point-of-sale payments platform is available for colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada, including campus dining. The U.S. Faster Payments Council will work with the Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc., a developer of standards for the U.S. financial industry, to speed development …

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Eye on Processors: Peoples Bank Expands Deluxe Services; Evertec Closes on a Brazil Fintech Stake

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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Priority Expands in Automotive Servicing, Adding Dealer Merchant Services

Priority Technology Holdings Inc. announced early Thursday it is expanding aggressively into automotive servicing with its acquisition of DMSJV LLC, also known as Dealer Merchant Services, a payments provider whose capabilities include surcharging to help dealers cover transaction costs. Terms were not announced, but Alpharetta, Ga.-based Priority said a $35-million increase …

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An Digital Tip Win and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/2/25

Instant Financial USA Inc., a platform that digitizes payments for hourly workers, said it has been chosen by the Munson Group to launch digital tips and paycards for workers at Munson’s 33 Sonic Drive-In and Buffalo Wild Wings locations. Theatre Capital announced it has acquired AllPaid Inc., a payments platform serving …

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Jack Henry Acquires Victor Technologies; Global Payments Sheds Its Payroll Business

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. has acquired Victor Technologies Inc., a provider of embedded-payment solutions, from MVB Financial Corp. for an undisclosed sum. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, MVB says it expects to see a pre-tax gain of $33 million from the sale. The acquisition widens an …

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Eye on Checkout: Affirm lands Ace Hardware for BNPL; Amazon’s Buy With Prime Adds New Retailers

Just in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season, merchants are ready with new e-commerce checkout options. A hardware cooperative is adding the buy now, pay later option from Affirm for in-store use. Brands Dearfoams and Baggallini now offer Buy with Prime, the Amazon.com Inc. online checkout service. Oak Brook, …

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Merrick Relaunches Ollo and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/1/25

The credit card issuer Merrick Bank has re-launched its Ollo credit card with a refreshed design and new technology. The card was first issued in 2017 as a product for U.S. consumers facing challenges in obtaining a credit card. Valor PayTech, a 5-year-old provider of point-of-sale technology for merchants, announced it has …

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OpenAI And Stripe Are the Latest Fintechs to Enable Agentic Commerce

Agentic commerce got a huge boost late Monday as OpenAI, the provider of such artificial-intelligence applications as ChatGPT, launched Instant Checkout, an agentic-commerce protocol developed with Stripe Inc. The Agentic Commerce Protocol is an open standard for AI commerce that enables AI agents to complete purchases on behalf of individuals …

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