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Buy now, pay later specialist Affirm Holdings Inc. expanded its partnership with retailer Wayfair Inc. to include in-store transactions. Wayfair initially adopted Affirm in 2016 for online checkout. First Internet Bank adopted Zelle, a peer-to-peer payment service, for its business customers. Payment orchestration platform Gr4vy Inc. completed an integration with the new Mastercard Merchant Cloud, a payments platform …
October, 2025
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20 October
Global Payments Expands Its Sports Team And Venue Portfolio
Global Payments Inc. has expanded its reach into the highly competitive world of payment processing for sports teams and entertainment venues through a deal with sports and venue-management company Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment LLC. Global Payments will be the official payment technology provider for the Prudential Center, as well …
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20 October
PayPal Teams with Commerce for BigCommerce Payments
Already known for online payments, PayPal Holdings Inc. is prepping another online-acceptance service, this one for merchants using the BigCommerce e-commerce platform. Announced Monday, the new service will be embedded into the BigCommerce platform under the BigCommerce Payments moniker. It is expected to launch in the United States in 2026, …
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20 October
Kroger Picks Worldpay and other Digital Transactions News from 10/20/25
Worldpay Inc. will operate as the exclusive processor for the grocery company Kroger under an agreement announced early Monday. The agreement embraces in-store, online, and mobile transactions for Kroger, which operates more than 2,700 stores across 35 states. Worldpay is in the process of being acquired from FIS Inc. by Global Payments …
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17 October
MoonPay Launches MoonPay Commerce; Ripple Pays $1 Billion for GTreasury
MoonPay USA LLC has launched MoonPay Commerce, a platform that enables merchants to accept cryptocurrency for products, services, and subscriptions. MoonPay built the platform using technology from its acquisition of Helio earlier this year. Developers and merchants can integrate MoonPay Commerce, which is already being used by 6,000 merchants, using …
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17 October
AmEx Looks to a Refreshed High End Card for Platinum Results
American Express Co.’s new campaigns to build more intimate relationships with restaurants and refresh its top-end Platinum card are starting to show signs of paying off, the card company said early Friday. The initiatives come as the company reported revenue growth of 11% year-over-year for the September quarter. The effort …
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17 October
FedNow Surpasses 1,500 Participants and other Digital Transactions News from 10/17/25
The Federal Reserve said the number of participating organizations in FedNow, its real-time payments service, recently surpassed 1,500. Euronet Worldwide Inc. said it will use the digital asset technology from Fireblocks to integrate stablecoin technology into its global payments infrastructure. Point-of-sale technology developer PAX Technology Inc., based in China but a prominent supplier in …
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16 October
UATP Teams With Burbank to Turn Online Payments into Card Present Transactions
Universal Air Travel Plan Inc. (UATP) early Thursday announced it has partnered with Burbank, a United Kingdom-based fintech, to deploy an app that enables mobile devices to act as a POS terminal to process card-present transactions over the Internet. The app is embedded in the merchant’s mobile app, which …
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16 October
Faster Payments Gain Momentum at Nacha And The Clearing House
Faster payments on the automated clearing house network and on real-time payments systems are gaining momentum, according to statistics released Thursday by Nacha, the standards body for the automated clearing house system, and by the Real Time Payments network, operated by 22 of the world’s biggest banks. The total value …
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16 October
FIS Smart Basket Coming and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/16/25
Processor FIS Inc. said it will soon release Smart Basket, technology designed to automatically optimize rewards and payment methods at checkout. Mastercard Inc. and Visa Inc. reached a proposed settlement of $199.5 million in a class action lawsuit a group of merchants filed almost 10 years ago, Reuters reported. The settlement still requires …
