Point-of-sale

October, 2025

• 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 …
• 9 October

  Stablecoins Remain Hot As Banks Vie For Issuance And Related Services

  

  Action in the payments industry on stablecoin plans appears to be perking up since President Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law this summer, legislation whose rules are expected to spark more action by mainstream payments players on issuing and accepting the digital currency. One example emerged Wednesday with …
• 9 October

  $45.5 Trillion in Card Purchases and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/9/25

  

  New research from Datos Insights found that credit and debit cardholders globally made 1.1 trillion purchases worth $45.5 trillion in 2024. Buy now, pay later provider Splitit launched its Agentic Commerce Partner Program, an invitation-only effort to bring card-linked installment payments to autonomous shopping agents. Some 86% of restaurant operators are comfortable with the …
• 8 October

  Socure Unveils Customizable Fraud Detection; Thredd’s Single Point Fraud Monitoring

  

  Socure, an AI platform for digital identity verification and fraud prevention, announced early Wednesday the launch of Hosted Flows, fraud-detection technology that enables users to build, customize, and deploy branded identity verification and fraud prevention capability without the need for programming code. With Hosted Flows, product, risk, and compliance teams …