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Mobile Commerce

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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A U.K. Regulator Throws an Interchange Obstacle at Mastercard And Visa

A ruling in the United Kingdom could imperil the validity of multilateral interchange fees in the United Kingdom and Ireland assessed by Mastercard Inc. and Visa Inc. A U.K. tribunal Friday ruled the fees infringe on competition law. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled the fees infringe on prohibitions to restrict, …

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Klarna’s Bolt Exclusive and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/30/25

Klarna AB said an exclusive agreement with checkout and payments provider Bolt Financial Inc. will allow Klarna to integrate its payment options with Bolt’s CheckoutOS. The move is expected to allow merchants to offer Klarna’s payment options directly at checkout. Bolt says more than 80 million consumers use its one-click checkout …

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Adobe Enhances Adobe Commerce; Bolt’s New Service for Marketplaces

Digital-publishing and -services provider Adobe Inc. this week announced two additions to its Adobe Commerce e-commerce package, including a new cloud-based service. And Bolt Financial Inc. unveiled its Bolt Connect service, which the company says will help online marketplaces onboard merchants faster and streamline operations. San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe introduced …

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Skyfire Launches AI Agent Checkout and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/27/25

Skyfire, a provider of payment and identity technology for AI agents, has launched AI Agent Checkout, technology said to be programmed specifically for transactions conducted via AI agents. Payments-software developer Weave Communications Inc. has appointed Adrian McDermott to its board of directors. McDermott is chief technology officer at ZenDesk.

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