Digital Currency

Restaurant point-of-sale specialist Toast Inc. announced its December-quarter gross payment volume grew 22% year-on-year to $51.4 billion, while total locations reached 164,000, up 22%, and net income totaled $101 million, more than triple the sum a year earlier. For the full year, GPV totaled $195.1 billion, up 23%, while net income swelled …

Gaming-transactions specialist Pavilion Payments said it has agreed to acquire payments and automation contracts, along with technology assets, from DiTRONICS Financial Services, a funds-access platform serving casinos. Terms were not announced. Knot, an app linking consumers, merchants, and financial institutions, said it will work with Fiserv Inc. to enable Lyft drivers to more easily …

Adyen NV announced Personalize, a tool that lets businesses modify checkout pages in real time in response to shopper preferences. The new service is related to Adyen Uplift, a routing capability launched last year and aimed at increasing conversion rates. Lut, a cannabis-payments specialist, said it will work with Frankenmuth Credit …

Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit announced the launch of SquareAI in the United Kingdom. The technology, which Square says is free to merchants, offers conversational AI intended to help business owners interpret their data and arrive at decisions faster. Payments provider Blue Payment Agency Inc. expanded its focus to help e-commerce sites, especially those …

The ride-sharing service Uber will expand its use of payments services from Adyen NV to cover more geographies and will make use of Adyen’s Checkout API product for a wider choice of payment methods, the companies announced. Honor Capital said it is working with ePayPolicy to offer financing when insured customers are making premium …

Payments platform Corpay Inc. said its revenue rose 21% year-over-year in the December quarter to $1.25 billion. Net income totaled $264.5 million, up 8%. Transactions in vehicle payments, the company’s largest business, came to 221.9 million, up 7%. Nacha, the regulatory body for the automated clearing house network, announced participants have been elected …

Technology from Stripe Inc. will support transactions for PhotonPay, a Hong Kong-based fintech processing online payments for more than 200,000 businesses globally. According to PhotonPay’s announcement, released early Wednesday, the addition of Stripe’s technology will widen its offering of payment methods as well as reinforce uptime, though the company did …

Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Holdings Inc. will be the exclusive pay-over-time provider integrated with QuickBooks Payments under an agreement announced by QuickBooks provider Intuit Inc. and Affirm. BizTrip AI, whose technology uses AI to help manage payments and other functions in corporate travel, raised $1.5 million in new funding led …

American Express Co., reported 2025 revenue of $72.2 billion, up 9% year-over-year. Fourth-quarter revenue totaled $19 billion, up 10%. Net income came to $2.46 billion for the quarter and $10.8 billion for the year, up 13% and 7%, respectively. Revenue from discount fees was $37.4 billion for the year, a …

Deluxe Corp. reported $2.13 billion in 2025 revenue, up 0.5% from $2.12 billion in 2024. Its net income, however, grew even more reaching $85.3 million in 2025, up 61.2% from $52.9 million the year prior. In the fourth quarter, Deluxe had $535.5 million in revenue, up 2.8% from $520.5 million in …