Point-of-sale

October, 2025

• 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 …
• 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 …
• 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 …
• 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 …
• 15 October

  Shop Pay Enabled on Global-e Platform and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/15/25

  

  E-commerce specialist Global-e said Shop Pay’s one-click checkout is now available for its merchants using the Shopify platform. C-store chain Circle K has partnered with Car IQ, a vehicle-based payments platform, to launch Circle K Pro Digital +, a U.S.-based payments service for fuel, tolls, and other vehicle-related payments. Payroc announced it has enabled …
• 14 October

  Mastercard’s Merchant Cloud Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/14/25

  

  Mastercard Inc. unveiled Merchant Cloud, a payments platform aimed at easing the way for businesses to conduct commerce globally while entering new markets and adopting new end-user technologies. Block Inc. said it will work with food-delivery service Grubhub to overhaul restaurants’ ordering systems by integrating with Square’s point-of-sale platform and adding Cash …
• 13 October

  Verifone Launches a Fleet Fueling POS System; NCR Voyix Integrates With Corpay’s Fleet Platform

  

  Verifone Inc. early Monday launched Commander Fleet, a payment and site-management system that enables fuel and convenience retailers to accept WEX and other leading commercial fleet cards through a single POS integration. The system is expected to roll out across North America. Providing fuel and convenience retailers with a single …
• 13 October

  Mastercard Announces a Service Aimed at Boosting Payment Success Rates

  

  Adyen NV and Worldpay are among processors that have signed up to participate in a new platform from Mastercard Inc. aimed at boosting approval rates for card transactions. Announced Monday, the Payment Optimization Platform seeks to boost approval rates using AI engines trained on transaction data, the card network said …
• 13 October

  Klarna To Support Google AI Tech and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/13/25

  

  Klarna Group plc said it will support the AI-based Agent Payments Protocol from Google Inc. The technology allows shopping agents to find and buy products according to criteria set by consumers. Xplor Pay announced a partnership with Gatemaster Technology, a point-of-sale and ticketing software provider, that sees Gatemaster customers gain access to …
• 10 October

  Deloitte’s Forecast for APP Fraud and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/10/25

  

  Advisory firm Deloitte issued a report that forecasts authorized push payment fraud in the United States could conservatively swell to $12.4 billion in losses or more aggressively to $18.2 billion by 2028 from the 2024 tally of $8.3 billion. Payroc World Access LLC has closed on its acquisition of BlueSnap Inc., a payments-orchestration and …