Digital Transactions Authoritative, insightful and timely information for payments professionals
August, 2026
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10 August
Venmo Now in Google Play and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/10/26
PayPal Holdings Inc. said its Venmo payment service is available to consumers using the Google Play store, a digital content store. Google Play has accepted PayPal payments since 2014. Paysafe Ltd. announced it has launched PaysafeWallet in Poland. The digital wallet allows users to spend online or offline, withdraw cash, and send …
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7 August
Pay-By-Bank Enters Agentic Commerce with a Sionic and Agentix Tie-up
Account-to-account payments are about to meet the agentic-commerce age with a new partnership between Sionic, a bank-to-bank payments provider, and Agentix, an agentic-commerce technology firm. In the deal, Atlanta-based Sionic will supply an artificial-intelligence shopping agent with its Bank Perks to enable payment directly from a user’s bank account. Bank …
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7 August
Eye on BNPL: Splitit’s Move in Auto Repair; Sezzle’s Sizzling Quarter
The buy now, pay later platform Splitit says it will offer its installment-payment services in the automotive-repair and services business through a partnership with 1stMILE, a loyalty and payments platform specializing in that industry. The move comes as many automobile-servicing costs are rapidly developing into necessary rather than discretionary transactions. …
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7 August
Repay Speaks up and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/7/26
Payments platform Repay Holdings Corp. launched REPAY Voice, a voice-response system using artificial intelligence to process consumers’ bill payments. Earlier this month, the company said it was working on a system to enable bill payments via text messaging. PAR Technology Corp., a specialist in restaurant point-of-sale processing, reported June-quarter revenue of $133.4 million, …
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6 August
Square, Toast Jump into AI-Boosted Google Maps
Ask Maps brings artificial-intelligence commands to Google Maps, with Square and Toast Inc. among the first point-of-sale system companies to enable agentic food ordering within Maps. Google is integrating elements of its Gemini AI engine into its Maps product to enable users to ask for complex, multi-step tasks such as …
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6 August
J.P. Morgan Payments Taps Klarna and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/6/26
Buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB said it completed an integration with J.P. Morgan Payments that enables merchants on the processor’s Commerce Platform to offer Klarna’s BNPL options at checkout with no integration on the merchant’s end. Fraud prevention services firm Signifyd said e-commerce fraud increased 33% this year over last in its …
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5 August
Swift, J.P. Morgan And BofA Usher in Faster International Money Transfer
Swift, a financial-messaging platform, said its new international money-transfer service is now live in the United States, with Bank of America Corp. and J.P. Morgan online with the service. The move follows recent launches in Canada and Germany. Swift says the new service will show recipients the full transaction amount …
