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E-Commerce

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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EMS’s Latest Acquisition and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/5/25

Payments provider Electronic Merchant Systems acquired Paysley, an omnichannel payment platform. Terms were not disclosed. EMS also recently invested in Payment Nerds and Pet Payments, and acquired Peel Payments in April. Processor FIS Inc. reported June-quarter revenue of $2.6 billion, up 5% from the same period last year. The company’s banking solutions unit took in $1.8 billion, up …

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How Fast Food POS Can Bring on Fast Headaches

Having fought back from the ravages of the pandemic, quick-service restaurants now represent a large and fast-growing market for providers of point-of-sale technology—but also one presenting new and vexing challenges, according to top payments executives who specialize in this industry. For fast-food or fast-casual restaurants, “building a point of sale …

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Fiserv Index up 1 Point and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/4/25

The July report from the Fiserv Small Business Index increased to 149, up one point from June. Year-over-year sales increased 3.6% and transactions grew 3%. Consumer spending increased from June, but their foot traffic into small businesses was nearly flat, Fiserv said. NewtekOne Inc. and its banking unit, NewTek Bank N.A., launched a …

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Stablecoins Prove To Be a Reliable Revenue Source for Coinbase

Revenue from its stablecoin offerings grew smartly in the second quarter for cryptocurrency platform provider Coinbase Global Inc. against a backdrop of a tough digital currency market. New York City-based Coinbase reported Thursday that it posted $332.5 million in stablecoin revenue, up 38% from $240.4 million in the year-earlier quarter. …

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Visa Looks to Stablecoins and Remittances to Fuel New Growth Opportunities

With consumer spending remaining resilient, stablecoins and remittances represent future growth opportunities, Visa Inc. chief executive Ryan McInerney told equity analysts during the network’s 2025 fiscal third-quarter earnings call late Tuesday. On the stablecoin front, McInerney said Visa is supportive of the recently passed GENIUS Act, which provides a regulatory …

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COMMENTARY: The Cost of Friction: Rethinking the Payment Experience

In the world of payments, it’s easy to focus on the visible costs—processing fees, transaction expenses, vendor rates. But often, the real cost hides in plain sight. It shows up when a payment fails, when a customer gives up mid-transaction, or when confusion leads to a flood of support calls. …

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Darwinium Launches New Tools to Combat AI-Assisted-Fraud

Darwinium, a provider of cybersecurity software, has rolled out two new modules aimed at enhancing its digital-security and fraud-prevention platform. The modules detect criminals’ use of malicious AI agents to bypass a business’s fraud prevention defenses. The two new modules, called Beagle and Copilot, simulate malicious AI-based attacks to distinguish …

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