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While credit cards are the most common way small businesses pay for a purchase, a growing number are embracing buy now, pay later loans as a payment option. At the same time, many small businesses are opting not to pay by card in order to avoid a surcharge, finds J.D. …
December, 2025
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2 December
Eye on Hospitality: Shift4 Lines up Liberty Sports Group; SpotOn’s POS System at Adalina Prime
Sports-and-entertainment consultancy Liberty Sports Group says it will work with Shift4 Payments Inc., enabling the point-of-sale and payments specialist to be its exclusive technology partner. In related news, SpotOn Transact LLC says Adalina Prime, a new steakhouse from the well-known Adalina restaurant in Chicago, will use its POS technology. New …
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2 December
Block Notes 10% BFCM Uptick and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/2/25
Black Friday through Cyber Monday shopping generated a 10% rise year-over-year for Block Inc.’s Square, Cash App, and Afterpay payments properties, to 124 million transactions, the company reported. Payments processor Nuvei Corp. announced it is expanding a partnership with Microsoft Corp. to enable its core payment processing APIs to run on Microsoft Axure and use Azure AI to …
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1 December
Cyber Monday Sales Are Expected to Remain Strong After Shoppers Turned Out in Droves Over the Weekend
Consumer spending is expected to remain strong on Cyber Monday, after merchants saw robust holiday sales over Thanksgiving weekend. Shoppers in the United States are projected to spend $14.2 billion online on Cyber Monday, a 6.3% increase from a year ago, says Adobe Analytics. Spending is expected to peak at $16 …
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1 December
Eye on Acquiring: Kurv Launches a Merchant App; Lufthansa Adds Klarna as a Payment Option
Merchants processing with Kurv, which was known as Electronic Merchant Systems until November, have a new option and a new app. In related news, the airline Lufthansa Group is adding Klarna AB’s buy now, pay later options via a Klarna and Adyen NV integration. Cleveland-based Kurv debuted a merchant app …
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1 December
Klarna Black Friday Volume up 45% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/1/25
Klarna AB said its U.S. processing volume across all product categories was up a record 45% for November through Black Friday. Absolute figures were not immediately available. Black Friday sales data from Accertify Inc. indicate consumers spent $115.46 per transaction on average, down 17% from last year, while initiating 52.5 million transactions, up …
November, 2025
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26 November
Online Holiday Sales Are off to a Strong Pre-Thanksgiving Start
Online shoppers have spent $79.7 billion in the first 23 days of the 2025 holiday shopping season, a 7.5% year-over-year increase, Adobe Analytics finds. Within that period, online shoppers spent more than $3 billion in a single day on 22 days, up two days from last year. Discounts played a big …
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26 November
The ‘Pressing Concern’ of Fraud and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/26/25
Fraud and scams have grown into a “pressing concern” for users of digital payments in the Caribbean and Latin America, according to a regional survey report released by Mastercard Inc. The research effort queried 3,577 adults in 12 countries in October. Mastercard has launched Mastercard Access Pass, aimed at allowing card issuers to …
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25 November
Deloitte: Consumers Will Spend Less Over Black Friday Through Cyber Monday
Consumers will spend less between Black Friday and Cyber Monday than they did last year, despite a higher percentage of consumers planning to purchase during the four-day holiday shopping period, finds Deloitte’s 2025 Black Friday-Cyber Monday survey. Consumer spend per person during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping events …
