Friday , February 20, 2026

Mobile Commerce

Fiserv Caps a Sub-Par Year With a Disappointing Fourth Quarter

Fiserv’s chief executive early Tuesday told Wall Street not to look for immediate improvement following a sub-par year in 2025. “Our headline results are below our expectations and will remain that way until mid-year,” chief executive Michael Lyons told equity analysts at the top of a group call with equity …

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SquareAI Enters the U.K. and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/10/26

Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit announced the launch of SquareAI in the United Kingdom. The technology, which Square says is free to merchants, offers conversational AI intended to help business owners interpret their data and arrive at decisions faster. Payments provider Blue Payment Agency Inc. expanded its focus to help e-commerce sites, especially those …

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Uber Deepens Adyen Ties and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/9/26

The ride-sharing service Uber will expand its use of payments services from Adyen NV to cover more geographies and will make use of Adyen’s Checkout API product for a wider choice of payment methods, the companies announced. Honor Capital said it is working with ePayPolicy to offer financing when insured customers are making premium …

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A New POS Terminal Emerges While Tap To Pay Figures in a New App

The Mexico-based payments company Clip announced the launch of its latest point-of-sale terminal, the Clip Total 3. And technology provider SeoSamba launched Point-of-Sale, an app that incorporates programming from Stripe Inc. and enables iOS and Android tap-to-pay transactions on smart phones or tablets with wireless links to printers and card …

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Affirm Supports Mobile Devices and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/6/26

Installment-payment platform Affirm Holdings Inc. said it will provide financing to customers of Virgin Media O2, a United Kingdom-based vender of mobile devices. In related news, Affirm said it has expanded its agreement with online merchant Wayfair to offer installment payments to consumers in Canada and the United Kingdom on top of the current …

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Corpay’s Results and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/5/26

Payments platform Corpay Inc. said its revenue rose 21% year-over-year in the December quarter to $1.25 billion. Net income totaled $264.5 million, up 8%. Transactions in vehicle payments, the company’s largest business, came to 221.9 million, up 7%. Nacha, the regulatory body for the automated clearing house network, announced participants have been elected …

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Stripe’s Latest Venture Is a Partnership With Hong Kong’s PhotonPay

Technology from Stripe Inc. will support transactions for PhotonPay, a Hong Kong-based fintech processing online payments for more than 200,000 businesses globally. According to PhotonPay’s announcement, released early Wednesday, the addition of Stripe’s technology will widen its offering of payment methods as well as reinforce uptime, though the company did …

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Automotive POS Gains Momentum As UpdatePromise Offers PayPal and Venmo

UpdatePromise, a software provider to automobile dealerships, said Tuesday it has agreed to integrate PayPal and Venmo to offer expanded payments capabilities in the service lane. The move comes as payments technology takes on increasing importance at dealerships looking to avoid snarled transactions while working out details with customers, the …

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Bolt’s Embedded Investing and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/4/26

Bolt Financial Inc., whose app offers checkout, identity, and payments capabilities, announced it is adding embedded investing capability through a deal with Atomic, an investing-as-a-service platform. Corpay Inc. said it will sell its PayByPhone mobile parking payments platform to Lightyear Capital in a deal expected to close in the second quarter. …

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PayPal Gets a New CEO As It Looks to Sharpen ‘Execution’

PayPal Holdings Inc. early Tuesday announced it has appointed board chairman Enrique Lores president and chief executive, replacing Alex Chriss. Lores moves into his new position after more than six years as CEO at HP Inc. The company also reported December-quarter results in the face of a steep drop in …

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