Thursday , January 1, 2026

E-Commerce

Circle’s Shares and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/13/25

Circle Internet Group Inc. announced a public offering of 10 million shares of its Class A common stock, with 2 million shares offered by Circle and the balance by current shareholders. Circle on Tuesday unveiled Arc, a payments platform aimed at major money flows. Payments-technology provider Alacriti Inc. said Beginnings Credit Union has adopted …

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Consumers Like to Pay Bills Digitally, But Are Not Sold on AI as Part of the Process

Consumers are increasingly turning to same-day and real-time payment channels for paying their bills, ACI Worldwide’s 2025 Speedpay Pulse report finds. Overall, 3 in 10 consumers have paid a bill using a same-day or real-time payment channel in the past 12 months, the report says. Gen Zers are the most …

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SpotOn Enhances Its Online Ordering Platform; Global Payments Adds Another Pro Sports Client

SpotOn Transact LLC has enhanced its online ordering platform for independent restaurants with several new features intended to engender customer loyalty and drive repeat business. One of the new features is GoTo Place, a mobile app that allows restaurants to create their own branded mobile storefront. What differentiates GoTo Place …

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Fintiv Sues Apple over Apple Pay Technology Claims and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/8/25

Fintiv Inc., a digital-wallet developer, has sued Apple Inc., alleging the iPhone maker stole mobile-wallet technology from Fintiv to further its development of Apple Pay. The case was filed in the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. Apple Pay debuted in October 2014. Fintiv at the time was known as …

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Finzly Moves to Support Stablecoins, While Ripple Acquires Stablecoin Platform Rail

Finzly, a developer of payments technology for financial institutions, says it is preparing to support stablecoins and tokenized deposits. The move is aimed at helping financial institutions remain relevant as programmable money becomes more common, the company says. Programmable money is a digital form of currency that can be programmed …

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Klarna Strikes WooCommerce Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/7/25

Klarna AB announced its payments services are available at WooCommerce stores using a plug-in from Stripe Inc. The number of such stores is said to reach hundreds of thousands. Valiify, a loan-origination platform, is working with payments firm Payfinia to use Payfinia’s PaymentXchange platform. Crypto wallet Bitget has launched its stablecoin-backed Mastercard in Brazil, with …

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Forter Launches Identity Monitoring for Agentic Commerce

Identity-intelligence platform provider Forter has launched a service that it says enables digital merchants to vet AI agents across the entire shopping process, including payment. The new capability within the Forter platform is intended to help merchants combat fraud in the artificial-intelligence era, which has seen the rise of AI …

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Global Payments Touts Its Genius POS Platform And Welcomes Worldpay

Global Payments Inc. is focusing on its new Genius point-of-sale initiative as it prepares to welcome the big merchant processor Worldpay into its fold, the Atlanta-based company’s top executives said early Wednesday. Global launched Genius for restaurants in May, with Genius for retail following last month. Now, the revamped POS …

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NCR Atleos’s New ATM Deals and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/6/25

NCR Atleos Corp. said convenience store chain Casey’s joined its Allpoint ATM network. Casey’s has more than 2,900 locations. In related news, NCR Atleos said it will provide “thousands” of new ATMs to FCTI Inc., an ATM owner-operator and subsidiary of Seven Bank Ltd.. FCTI is the sole ATM operator in U.S. 7-Eleven …

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Shift4 Looks to Its Global Blue Deal for More Expansion

Shift4 Payments Inc.’s top brass early Tuesday celebrated the long-awaited July 3 closing on its $2.5 billion deal to acquire Global Blue, a Switzerland -based international platform providing transaction services to high-end merchants. The deal clinches a major position internationally for the acquisitive processor, executives said on a call with …

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