Point-of-sale

July, 2025

• 2 July

  Grocer Tests Instacart Cart and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/2/25

  

  Grocery-delivery platform Instacart launched its Caper Carts at Wegmans Dewitt store in Syracuse, N.Y. The technology lets customers track spending while streamlining checkout through a network of cameras, digital scales, and location sensors. Mogo Inc. said it is investigating stablecoins to help support its payments platform, which handles more than $12 billion annually …
• 1 July

  Adyen Launches a Business Partner Program; Klarna And Affirm Add a BNPL Option for Tesla

  

  Adyen NV unveiled an enhanced partner program early Tuesday that it says will provide its more than 1,000 business clients the resources, support, and incentives to deliver a better user experience to Adyen merchants. The new program gives Adyen business partners better visibility into Adyen’s product roadmap and integration expectations, …
• 1 July

  Crypto Giant Circle Bids for a Bank

  

  In a move that could weave cryptocurrency more deeply into the fabric of the U.S. payments industry, Circle Internet Group Inc. announced late Monday it has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to form a national trust bank. The application, which seeks to establish what Circle …
• 1 July

  EverC’s Merchant Onboarding Tool and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/1/25

  

  Risk management company EverC launched its Instant Onboarding service to help payment providers speed up and better manage the merchant onboarding process. Black Dragon Capital said it will work with Velera, a payments-based credit union service organization, in an effort to start and grow fintechs that can help credit unions. Tyfone Inc., …

June, 2025

• 30 June

  A U.K. Regulator Throws an Interchange Obstacle at Mastercard And Visa

  

  A ruling in the United Kingdom could imperil the validity of multilateral interchange fees in the United Kingdom and Ireland assessed by Mastercard Inc. and Visa Inc. A U.K. tribunal Friday ruled the fees infringe on competition law. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled the fees infringe on prohibitions to restrict, …
• 30 June

  Klarna’s Bolt Exclusive and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/30/25

  

  Klarna AB said an exclusive agreement with checkout and payments provider Bolt Financial Inc. will allow Klarna to integrate its payment options with Bolt’s CheckoutOS. The move is expected to allow merchants to offer Klarna’s payment options directly at checkout. Bolt says more than 80 million consumers use its one-click checkout …
• 27 June

  Skyfire Launches AI Agent Checkout and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/27/25

  

  Skyfire, a provider of payment and identity technology for AI agents, has launched AI Agent Checkout, technology said to be programmed specifically for transactions conducted via AI agents. Payments-software developer Weave Communications Inc. has appointed Adrian McDermott to its board of directors. McDermott is chief technology officer at ZenDesk.
• 26 June

  The Cloud Rules in Point-of-Sale Products, TSG Report Finds

  

  It’s not a secret how cloud-based connectivity has changed payments, and now a quantifiable 78% of all point-of-sale product providers have at least one cloud-based POS product, finds the 2025 Directory of POS providers from TSG, an Omaha, Neb.-based payments advisory firm. The directory, which catalogs more than 5,500 data …
• 26 June

  Affirm Goes Gaming and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/26/25

  

  In partnership with Xsolla, a provider of videogame-commerce platforms, Affirm Inc. has agreed to offer its payments options through online-game developers. Square, a unit of Block Inc. released its Square Handheld device in the United Kingdom. Square launched the device in May in the United States. Stablecoin-card issuer Rain said it will work with Toku, a …
• 25 June

  Eye on Hospitality: Square Greets Concert-Goers at a New Toronto Venue; PayPal’s Summer Promo at Taco Bell

  

  Building on its three-year partnership with the big entertainment promoter Live Nation in Canada, Block Inc.’s Square unit said Wednesday it will roll out point-of-sale payments at the new Rogers Stadium in Toronto, starting June 29. Rogers Stadium stands to become a major new seasonal transaction source for Square, which …