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Barely three months since taking over the top spot at PayPal Holdings Inc., Enrique Lores is heading up a reorganization of the venerable payments company. Announced late Wednesday following a CNBC report earlier in the day, PayPal says it will migrate to a three-business operating model. The three are checkout …
April, 2026
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30 April
Mastercard Eyes Data From Ventures in Stablecoins And AI
Like other international payments networks, Mastercard Inc. is wrestling with the impact of the conflict in the Middle East while at the same time adjusting to the ripple effects of agentic commerce and digital currency. Early Thursday, the company’s top executives took pains to assure the financial community that they’re …
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30 April
Shift4 Lines up Wrigley Field and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/30/26
Shift4 Payments Inc. said it will provide point-of-sale services at Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team, and at Gallagher Way, the entertainment district adjacent to the ballpark. American Express Co. announced new and beefed-up benefits to mark the 60th anniversary of its gold card, including quintupled membership …
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29 April
Eye on Point of Sale: MoneyGram Adopts Stripe for Retail Locations; Lightspeed Divests Upserve
Stripe Inc. has notched money-transfer services as a customer category with MoneyGram’s adoption of the payment processor’s technology for its retail locations. Additionally, Lightspeed Commerce Inc. is selling Upserve, a hospitality point-of-sale platform it acquired in 2020. Dallas-based MoneyGram International Inc., which went private in 2023, says it will use …
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29 April
Visa Looks to Expansion in Stablecoins And Agentic Commerce
Visa Inc. early Wednesday announced it is expanding support for agent-led commerce to Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region, and also said it is widening its venture in stablecoins with the addition of five blockchains, bringing the total to nine. The five additional blockchains include Arc from Circle Internet Financial, …
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28 April
Square Unveils Its Managerbot, And Toast’s New Device Goes Abroad
Two major providers of point-of-sale payments technology announced early Tuesday they are expanding key initiatives that have been long in development. For one of these providers the expansion goes well beyond payments. Block Inc.’s Square POS unit launched its Managerbot technology among sellers participating in an open beta. Based on Square …
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27 April
EVS Launches AssureACH and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/27/26
Electronic Verification Systems launched AssureACH, a service to prevent fraud at the point of capture. Among its features are real-time demand deposit account and routing number validation. MiCamp Solutions has agreed to serve as an independent sales organization representing Vibe Retail, a developer of point-of-sale technology aimed at independent merchants. The Electronic Transactions …
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24 April
Maple’s Voice-Ordering Comes to Quantic and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/24/26
Voice-ordering specialist Maple Inc. said it is working with Quantic POS, a cloud-based point-of-sale system provider, to make Maple’s artificial intelligence voice-ordering platform available to Quantic merchants. Coastal Pay Inc. released its updated payment gateway that offers easier surcharging and dual pricing compatibility. Buy now, pay later provider Sunbit said it is now available on …
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23 April
Why AmEx Is Going Full Steam Ahead in AI
The top brass at American Express Co. indicated early Thursday it’s been spending a good deal of time thinking about the implications of AI and agentic commerce, the shop-and-spend utility enabled by AI. Overall, the company’s conclusion is the technology will spur a boom not only for AmEx but for …
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23 April
ACI Connetic Adds Networks and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/23/26
Citing network complexity, ACI Worldwide Inc. said its ACI Connetic, a single platform connecting to multiple major payments systems, now offers access to Fedwire, CHIPS, Swift, The Clearing House RTP, Zelle, and FedNow. A link to Nacha ACH is expected to go live next year. The service will also support stablecoin …
