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Priority Commerce said it will provide ticket payment processing for the Cleveland Browns National Football League team. Global Payments Inc. said it expanded its Adaptive Authentication Platform to include the Visa Intelligent Data Exchange API. This technology can help improve authorization rates, reduce customer challenges, and aid efficiency. Owlting Group, …

American Express Co. announced expansions of its agreements with the National Basketball Association and the Women’s National Basketball Association. The deals include a role for AmEx as Presenting Partner of NBA Houses, an initiative that features viewing parties and meetings with NBA players. Celerant Technology, a developer of software for retail …

Fintech Panacea Financial Holdings Inc. released PlexPay, its healthcare payment platform that integrates merchant processing, point-of-sale and digital payments, patient financing, and automated payment posting. Panacea said as of Sept. 30, its platform had approximately $7 billion in annual transaction volume, a 100% year-over-year increase. Beauty and wellness booking technology Fresha announced …

Chargebacks911 launched an AI agent to help merchants protect qualifying purchases made through AI agents without replacing their existing fraud prevention tech or restructuring their payments systems. The new service also provided indemnification against qualifying chargebacks associated with these purchases. Investment firm Francisco Partners completed its $650 million acquisition of …

Data-encryption platform Evervault launched Browser Tokens, a service for agentic-commerce developers to allow AI agents to conduct transactions without exposing payment cards, passwords, or other sensitive personal information to the agent or browser provider. Loyalty and customer marketing platform Wildfire Systems released its “Agentic Commerce’s Wallet Problem” report that found just 5% …

A little more than two years since introducing its Kiosk product for restaurants, Square has revised the device by making it larger and adding artificial intelligence features to its ordering system. Announced Wednesday, the updated Kiosk moves away from a tablet-like appearance, which relied on the restaurant operator providing an …

As the modern, online-based buy now, pay later market has matured, the type of products from BNPL providers has diversified. Splitit USA Inc. will launch the Splitit World Mastercard credit card as a white-label offer for financial institutions while Zip Co Ltd. intends to debut Zip Cash, a same-day cash …

Federal Express said Stripe will work with FedEx Dataworks to incorporate signals from FedEx’s network into Stripe’s platform in support of financing for small and medium-size businesses. FedEx has also agreed to offer Stripe as a payments-processing option. FedEx Datworks is the shipping company’s predictive-analytics service based on shipment data. …

Banking infrastructure provider Increase said it will use services from Spade to enable real-time merchant data for card transactions to appear on statements provided to consumers. FIS Inc. also said it would use Spade to provide clearer debit card descriptors. PAR Technology Corp. updated Bridg, its identity resolution and shopper …

Canadian consumers made 26.7 billion retail payments in 2025 totaling $12.9 trillion, up 5.7% in value over 2024, according to the Canadian Payment Methods and Trends Report released Tuesday by Payments Canada. Point-of-sale system maker NCR Voyix Corp. said its new integration with TruAge, a digital age-verification service, will help its …