Mobile Commerce

Affirm Holdings Inc.’s bet on its Affirm Card, a debit card that enables users to buy now and pay later, may be paying off for the BNPL provider. The number of active card users reached 6 million in the company’s fiscal first quarter ended Sept. 30, a 112% increase from …

PAR Technology Corp., a point-of-sale provider for restaurants and retail, reported its third-quarter revenue totaled $137.1 million, up 15% year-over-year, while its net loss fell by half to $9 million. The company said it serves 174,400 active sites. Payments platform PSQ Holdings Inc. reported third-quarter revenue of $7.34 million, up 67% from …

Though still in the infant stages, agentic commerce is being readied for an expected maturation as a much-used shopping channel. Visa Inc. is taking steps to help with the release of its Agentic Commerce Benchmark. The tool, now available for anyone to use online, puts AI models through what Visa …

Global Payments Inc.’s top management early Thursday reported broad plans for its crucial Genius point-of-sale system while outlining its near-term approach to such critical technologies as artificial intelligence and its close relative, agentic commerce. The Genius technology, launched in the spring of last year, has now grown into “the flagship …

Fifty percent of U.S. adults want to approve every transaction an AI agent might make for them, found a survey from FIS Inc. When asked about the conditions they would want to trust AI with their money, 58% wanted a refund guarantee for mistakes and 56% wanted access to a …

As a merchant-specific barometer of small-business sales activity, the Fiserv Small Business Index for October may finally be showing evidence of an upswing. In October, the index showed a 2.3% year-over-year increase among SMBs, the strongest growth since July 2025, Fiserv says. From September to October, sales were up 0.3%, …

Circle Internet Group Inc. early Wednesday offered indications that digital money—specifically, stablecoins—is now moving steadily into mainstream finance. With partner companies, “we’re building the financial and economic infrastructure for the Internet, and upgrading the system for a world where people, businesses, and AI agents all transact onchain,” noted cofounder and …

Verifone announced it has enabled Featurespace across its gateways. The technology, offered by Visa, checks individual payments for fraud in real time. Verifone’s service assesses more than 1,800 transaction attributes in real time for each payment. Chargeback management platform Justt updated its platform with Justt Flows, an automation engine for alerts …

NumbersGame, a developer of software for accounting, announced integrations with the payments platforms Stripe and Square, and with accounting-software developer Ramp. The venture, intended for accounting operations using the Claude, Copilot, or ChaptGPT AI technologies, allows clients’ revenue to be handled by Stripe or Square, with spending attended to by …

With the holiday shopping season underway, consumers are likely reviewing their lists with a keen eye on their budgets, making buy now, pay later and gift cards options a consideration for many, suggests the 2026 Consumer Holiday Spending Study issued by the Electronic Transactions Association and TSG, a payments-research organization. …