PayPal Holdings Inc. said it will support the launch of Microsoft Corp.’s Copilot Checkout capability, part of the company’s Copilot technology. PayPal will enable discovery of merchant inventory and enable branded and guest checkout and credit card payments as part of the program. Modulr Finance Ltd. announced it is launching its real-time …
Read More »Online Shoppers Set a New Holiday Spending Record in 2025
Online shoppers spent a record $257.8 billion from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31, a 6.8% increase from the same period in 2024, according to Adobe Analytics. Over the same period, daily e-commerce spending totaled or surpassed $4 billion on 25 days, compared to 18 in 2024. Cyber Week, the five …
Read More »Jack in the Box Ready with Qu and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/7/25
The Jack in the Box Inc. restaurant chain has completed the installation of the Qu POS Inc. commerce platform in its 2,100-plus locations in 15 months, Qu said. Qu announced the Jack in the Box win in 2024. PayPal Holdings Inc. launched its Transaction Graph Insights & Measurement program, aimed at providing merchants with data …
Read More »Tower Payments Launches New Solution for Online Nicotine Pouch Sellers
Tower Payments, a high-risk merchant payment processor, launched a service for e-commerce sites selling nicotine pouches that restores credit card processing in the wake of a sudden account closure by the merchant’s existing processor. The service uses underwriting teams experienced with merchants selling synthetic and tobacco-derived nicotine products to guide …
Read More »COMMENTARY: Stablecoins and Cards: Why the Either/Or Debate Misses the Point
The stablecoin hype is real. The pitch sounds irresistible: instant settlement, lower costs, fewer intermediaries. So, will the world move on from cards to stablecoins? Nope. Why not? Because it’s more nuanced than that. Stablecoins and cards aren’t competing for the same job. Rather, they solve different problems in the …
Read More »SBT Nabs TPP and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/6/25
Solutions by Text LLC announced its acquisition of payments platform Triple Play Pay. Solutions by Text said the deal will help its compliance efforts, create a faster merchant onboarding experience, improve security and controls, and make more application programming interface codes available to merchants. Terms were not disclosed. Point-of-sale technology supplier Signature …
Read More »Digital Transactions 2025 Top 10 Countdown
A recap of the top 10 posts on DigitalTransactions.net in 2025. #1 Eye on AI: Worldpay Adds AI Safeguards; Pushpay’s Approach to AI [Aug. 14] As artificial intelligence use builds in the commercial world, its manifestations in consumer-facing payments applications continue to emerge. The latest developments include processor Worldpay using Trulioo’s …
Read More »Nayax And Autel Get Set to Embed Payments in 100,000 EV Chargers
Nayax Ltd., a fintech that among other services provides payments-acceptance technology for electric-vehicle chargers and other self-service scenarios, on Monday expanded its footprint in EV charging Monday through a partnership with Autel Energy, a provider of EV chargers. The deal calls for Nayax to embed its payment technology into an …
Read More »Fiserv’s December Index Notes a Modest Increase in Small Business Sales
Days after the end of the 2025 holiday shopping season, Fiserv Inc. notes modest gains in its monthly Small Business Index, with a one-point increase to 144 in December from November. Fiserv notes consumers shopping at small businesses tended to focus on the essentials and selective discretionary spending. That slight …
Read More »Flutterwave’s Latest Move and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/5/25
The U.S.-based payments-technology company Flutterwave Inc. announced it has acquired open-banking tech specialist Mono Technologies Nigeria Ltd. in an effort to support alternative payments across the African continent. Terms were not announced. SoundHound AI Inc., a specialist in conversational AI technology, said its Amelia 7 agentic AI technology will allow users inside …
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