Point-of-sale

August, 2025

• 29 August

  Zelle Launches a Campaign to Show How Embedded Its P2P Service Is in Consumers’ Lives

  

  Zelle, the peer-to-peer payments service from Early Warning Services LLC, is preparing to launch a marketing campaign aimed at highlighting its utility in everyday life. Dubbed “When It Counts,” the campaign is intended to show how woven into consumers’ daily lives Zelle has become, with such features as splitting a …
• 29 August

  BNPL’s Popularity Shows up at College And in Affirm’s Results

  

  The continuing popularity of the buy now, pay later won the attention of financial institutions some time ago, and now credit unions are starting to get in on the act. That news emerged Thursday as statistics from the big BNPL platform Affirm Inc. showed that the increasingly popular shopping service …
• 28 August

  Run Payments Launches a Payments Orchestration Portal

  

  Payments-orchestration platform Run Payments has launched Run Merchant, an application that consolidates a merchant’s payment infrastructure into a single portal, making it easier to access payment data across multiple gateways and processors. Run Merchant supports payment acceptance via virtual terminals, hosted payment pages, and application-programming interfaces. Additional features include a …
• 28 August

  PayPal Woes in Europe and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/28/25

  

  Shares in PayPal Holdings Inc. traded down toward the end of the day Wednesday following a report from Reuters that some banks in Europe were experiencing unauthorized direct debits from PayPal accounts, according to the BBC. PayPal told Reuters some banking partners had been affected by “a temporary service interruption” and the …
• 27 August

  Dutchie Adds Omni-Channel Shopping for Cannabis Sellers And Launches a Third-Party Partner Program

  

  Dutchie, a payments platform provider for more than 6,500 cannabis retailers in the United States and Canada, announced Wednesday the launch of two new enhancements to its platform, E-commerce Pro and the Certified Partner Program. E-commerce Pro is an omni-channel shopping application that embeds payments, loyalty, and marketing capabilities across cannabis retailers’ …
• 27 August

  Circle Allies With Finastra And Helps Fund a Singapore Stablecoin Company

  

  Finastra, a London-based developer of payments software for banks, said Wednesday it will work with Circle Internet Group Inc. to let banks include stablecoin settlement in their cross-border payments processing. In related news, the cross-border payments technology provider Tazapay announced it has closed on a Series B round with funding …
• 26 August

  Sightline Payments Launches a Debit Solution for the Gaming Industry

  

  Casino-payments specialist Sightline Payments early Tuesday announced the launch of Sightline Debit, a demand-deposit account and debit card service for gamers to hold funds in a bank account and place wagers using a Visa-branded debit card. Developed in collaboration with Cross River Bank, which will hold the accounts, Sightline Debit …
• 26 August

  Eye on Merchants: LegitScript Adds Merchant Vetting Features; Elavon Enlists Liberis for Merchant Financing

  

  Ensuring healthy merchants are added to a portfolio, and taking care of them once they’re admitted, are two major priorities for acquirers. LegitScript, which provides merchant and product certification and onboarding services, helps organizations vet new merchants and has released updates for its onboarding product. Meanwhile, processor Elavon, a subsidiary …
• 25 August

  AmEx Issues 50 Grants and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/25/25

  

  American Express Co. and the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced 50 restaurants will each get a $50,000 grant plus one year of free service from Resy, an AmEx company. The grants are part of the Backing Historic Small Restaurants program. Payments provider TouchSuite said it acquired a majority ownership in STG, a …
• 22 August

  Gather FCU Becomes the First Credit Union in Hawaii to Launch BNPL

  

  Gather Federal Credit Union in Hawaii has partnered with equipifi Inc. to become the first credit union in the state to offer buy now, pay later to its members. The credit union, which has more than 39,000 members on the islands of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau, will offer the service as …