Sunday , December 28, 2025

Mobile Commerce

PayJunction’s Twilio Tie-in and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/8/25

Payments provider PayJunction said it is working with customer-engagement platform Twilio to enable PayJunction merchants to process payments over the phone using AI-supported interactive voice-response technology. Gaming-industry specialist Pavilion Payments announced it will launch “VIP Preferred” funding solutions, including eCheck and deferred settlement, at three Pawnee Nation casinos. Kort Payments said it will work with …

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Mobile Shoppers And AI Are Expected to Help Drive Record Sales on Amazon Prime Day

Online shoppers in the United States are projected to spend a record $23.8 billion during Amazon.com’s upcoming Prime Day event, a more than 28% increase from the prior year, according to figures released early Monday by digital publishing and services provider Adobe Inc. Amazon’s Prime Day event runs July 8 …

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Thoma Bravo Acquires Olo; Shift4 Clinches Its Deal for Global Blue

Restaurant-technology provider Olo Inc. has entered into an agreement to be acquired by software-investment firm Thoma Bravo. Thoma Bravo has agreed to pay Olo shareholders $10.25 per share in cash, a 65% premium over Olo’s unaffected share price of $6.20 as of April 30, 2025. Thoma Bravo has placed Olo’s …

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Payments Companies Act As Congress Mulls Stablecoin Legislation

Ripple’s chief executive said Wednesday the company applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national bank charter to support its stablecoin, RLUSD, which it introduced in December. The move, which Ripple chief executive Brad Garlinghouse announced in a post on the social-media site X, follows …

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Payments Industry Support Builds to Eliminate the Federal Government’s Reliance on Paper Checks

Organizations representing the payments industry are coming out in support of the federal government’s move to eliminate paper checks for disbursements. Nacha, the governing body that oversees the ACH network, The Bank Policy Institute, The Clearing House Association, and the Consumer Bankers Association, have submitted comments to the Treasury Department …

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Small Business Sales Jump Year-Over-Year, But Retreat From May

Small businesses in June felt the impact of consumer reaction to reduced inflation, with their overall sales up 4.4% from June 2024, according to the Fiserv Small Business Index for the month, released early Wednesday. While the year-over-year rebound was strong, sales from May to June this year retreated 1.4%, …

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Grocer Tests Instacart Cart and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/2/25

Grocery-delivery platform Instacart launched its Caper Carts at Wegmans Dewitt store in Syracuse, N.Y. The technology lets customers track spending while streamlining checkout through a network of cameras, digital scales, and location sensors. Mogo Inc. said it is investigating stablecoins to help support its payments platform, which handles more than $12 billion annually …

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Adyen Launches a Business Partner Program; Klarna And Affirm Add a BNPL Option for Tesla

Adyen NV unveiled an enhanced partner program early Tuesday that it says will provide its more than 1,000 business clients the resources, support, and incentives to deliver a better user experience to Adyen merchants. The new program gives Adyen business partners better visibility into Adyen’s product roadmap and integration expectations, …

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Crypto Giant Circle Bids for a Bank

In a move that could weave cryptocurrency more deeply into the fabric of the U.S. payments industry, Circle Internet Group Inc. announced late Monday it has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to form a national trust bank. The application, which seeks to establish what Circle …

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InComm Teams Up With NCR Atleos for Cardless Cash Access

ATM producer and network-services provider NCR Atleos Corp. announced Monday that InComm Payments has adopted its ReadyCode application programming interface to enable cardless cash pick-ups at more than 23,000 U.S. ATMs. Atlanta-based NCR Atleos says ReadyCode-enabled ATMs are located inside retailers in 40 states. InComm, also based in Atlanta, provides …

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