Point-of-sale

August, 2025

• 13 August

  Circle’s Shares and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/13/25

  

  Circle Internet Group Inc. announced a public offering of 10 million shares of its Class A common stock, with 2 million shares offered by Circle and the balance by current shareholders. Circle on Tuesday unveiled Arc, a payments platform aimed at major money flows. Payments-technology provider Alacriti Inc. said Beginnings Credit Union has adopted …
• 11 August

  SpotOn Enhances Its Online Ordering Platform; Global Payments Adds Another Pro Sports Client

  

  SpotOn Transact LLC has enhanced its online ordering platform for independent restaurants with several new features intended to engender customer loyalty and drive repeat business. One of the new features is GoTo Place, a mobile app that allows restaurants to create their own branded mobile storefront. What differentiates GoTo Place …
• 11 August

  Shift4’s Blue Origin Crypto Plans and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/11/25

  

  Shift4 Payments Inc. said it is working with Blue Origin, a space technology company, to enable customers to pay for space flights with cryptocurrency and stablecoins. Payments technology provider Thunes announced a deal with Ontop, a payroll and financial platform, to enable freelancers and remote workers real-time access to their earnings. Payments technology …
• 8 August

  Fintiv Sues Apple over Apple Pay Technology Claims and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/8/25

  

  Fintiv Inc., a digital-wallet developer, has sued Apple Inc., alleging the iPhone maker stole mobile-wallet technology from Fintiv to further its development of Apple Pay. The case was filed in the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. Apple Pay debuted in October 2014. Fintiv at the time was known as …
• 8 August

  Eye on POS: ParTech’s 44% Revenue Bump; SoundHound AI’s Three-Fold Growth

  

  Separate efforts by Par Technology Corp. and SoundHound AI Inc. to boost their wins, especially among restaurant clients, appear to be paying off, if their latest earnings are indicators. ParTech, based in New Hartford, N.Y., is coming off its $132-million acquisition in January of Delaget LLC, a platform providing analytics …
• 8 August

  Back to the Drawing Board on Debit Rates: Sorting Out Winners and Losers

  

  With merchants prevailing in their long-running legal battle to overturn debit rate caps set by the Federal Reserve, the largest debit card issuers could wind up the biggest losers, while Capital One Financial Corp. emerges as the big winner. U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota Judge Daniel …
• 7 August

  Finzly Moves to Support Stablecoins, While Ripple Acquires Stablecoin Platform Rail

  

  Finzly, a developer of payments technology for financial institutions, says it is preparing to support stablecoins and tokenized deposits. The move is aimed at helping financial institutions remain relevant as programmable money becomes more common, the company says. Programmable money is a digital form of currency that can be programmed …
• 7 August

  Klarna Strikes WooCommerce Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/7/25

  

  Klarna AB announced its payments services are available at WooCommerce stores using a plug-in from Stripe Inc. The number of such stores is said to reach hundreds of thousands. Valiify, a loan-origination platform, is working with payments firm Payfinia to use Payfinia’s PaymentXchange platform. Crypto wallet Bitget has launched its stablecoin-backed Mastercard in Brazil, with …
• 6 August

  Global Payments Touts Its Genius POS Platform And Welcomes Worldpay

  

  Global Payments Inc. is focusing on its new Genius point-of-sale initiative as it prepares to welcome the big merchant processor Worldpay into its fold, the Atlanta-based company’s top executives said early Wednesday. Global launched Genius for restaurants in May, with Genius for retail following last month. Now, the revamped POS …
• 5 August

  AmEx Lends Its Restaurant Tech in a Deal With Toast

  

  Toast Inc. has agreed to work with American Express Co. to leverage the online reservation capabilities of the Resy and Tock platforms, which are owned by AmEx, as well as Toast’s Digital Chits technology. That technology allows restaurant staff to view customer information on Toast devices. Both companies will also …