Mobile Commerce

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

[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 identity technology for AI-enabled measures in agentic commerce and Pushpay’s introduction of AI tools for ministry leaders. Worldpay, which is expected to be …

[Aug. 14] Credit card usage and cardholder satisfaction decline when merchants levy a surcharge to offset their card-acceptance costs, J.D. Power’s 2025 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction study finds. When consumers are levied a surcharge, satisfaction scores drop 39 points to 602 on a 1,000-point scale, compared to consumers that have not …

Venzee Technologies Inc. announced it closed on its $2.1 million ($2.875 million Canadian) acquisition of the Jasper software as a service product information management solution business from Canada-based Digital Commerce Payments Inc. The software serves e-commerce merchants and platforms. The closing follows the announcement of the deal Oct. 31. BitMart, a …