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Consumer spending is expected to remain strong on Cyber Monday, after merchants saw robust holiday sales over Thanksgiving weekend. Shoppers in the United States are projected to spend $14.2 billion online on Cyber Monday, a 6.3% increase from a year ago, says Adobe Analytics. Spending is expected to peak at $16 …
December, 2025
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1 December
Eye on Acquiring: Kurv Launches a Merchant App; Lufthansa Adds Klarna as a Payment Option
Merchants processing with Kurv, which was known as Electronic Merchant Systems until November, have a new option and a new app. In related news, the airline Lufthansa Group is adding Klarna AB’s buy now, pay later options via a Klarna and Adyen NV integration. Cleveland-based Kurv debuted a merchant app …
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1 December
Klarna Black Friday Volume up 45% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/1/25
Klarna AB said its U.S. processing volume across all product categories was up a record 45% for November through Black Friday. Absolute figures were not immediately available. Black Friday sales data from Accertify Inc. indicate consumers spent $115.46 per transaction on average, down 17% from last year, while initiating 52.5 million transactions, up …
November, 2025
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26 November
Online Holiday Sales Are off to a Strong Pre-Thanksgiving Start
Online shoppers have spent $79.7 billion in the first 23 days of the 2025 holiday shopping season, a 7.5% year-over-year increase, Adobe Analytics finds. Within that period, online shoppers spent more than $3 billion in a single day on 22 days, up two days from last year. Discounts played a big …
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26 November
Retailer Newegg Is Among the First to Enable PayPal Agentic Commerce
Having just Tuesday activated PayPal acceptance within the Perplexity.AI artificial-intelligence engine, electronics retailer Newegg is one of the first sellers to integrate PayPal Holdings Inc.’s agentic-commerce services. This means consumers can discover and purchase Newegg products directly inside Perplexity and potentially other AI-shopping environments. A form of e-commerce, agentic commerce …
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26 November
The ‘Pressing Concern’ of Fraud and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/26/25
Fraud and scams have grown into a “pressing concern” for users of digital payments in the Caribbean and Latin America, according to a regional survey report released by Mastercard Inc. The research effort queried 3,577 adults in 12 countries in October. Mastercard has launched Mastercard Access Pass, aimed at allowing card issuers to …
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25 November
Deloitte: Consumers Will Spend Less Over Black Friday Through Cyber Monday
Consumers will spend less between Black Friday and Cyber Monday than they did last year, despite a higher percentage of consumers planning to purchase during the four-day holiday shopping period, finds Deloitte’s 2025 Black Friday-Cyber Monday survey. Consumer spend per person during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping events …
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25 November
PayPal Live in Perplexity and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/25/25
PayPal Holdings Inc. said PayPal merchants are now discoverable within the Perplexity AI service, which enables consumers to checkout in chat using their PayPal accounts. PayPal announced the partnership in May. SoundHound AI Inc. said its partnership with parking services provider Parkopedia now includes an in-vehicle voice AI parking agent. The agent can suggest …
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24 November
Worldpay Launches a Protocol for Creating AI Agents And Connecting Them to Its Platform
Worldpay LLC has launched an open-source standard to help developers create artificial intelligence-based commerce agents and connect AI apps to external systems. The standard, known as the Model Context Protocol, enables such AI apps as ChatGPT to connect to databases, search engines, and workflows, or specialized prompts, to access information …
