Point-of-sale

November, 2025

• 17 November

  Another Merchant Lawsuit Settlement Is Reached, This One on EMV-Related Chargebacks

  

  A lawsuit filed in March 2016 over how the four U.S. card brands handled the liability shift during the EMV migration more than 10 years ago, along with unreimbursed chargebacks associated with it, has reached its next step. The suit is over unreimbursed liability-shift chargebacks made with a credit or …
• 17 November

  Amscot Teams with Green Dot and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/17/25

  

  Amscot Financial said it will work with Green Dot Corp. to offer demand-deposit accounts offering a secured credit card, a network of more than 25,000 ATMs, and other features. Banker Washington Trust Co. said it added Fiserv Inc.’s Clover point-of-sale system to its roster of products available to its business clients. ECI Software Solutions launched …
• 14 November

  ‘Not the Final Chapter:’ Questions Arise About the Latest Interchange Settlement

  

  As the dust settles around the latest settlement agreement in Visa Inc.’s and Mastercard Inc.’s long running legal battle with merchants over card-acceptance fees, how the offer will impact the payments industry is coming into focus. Early reaction to the agreement from payments experts is that interchange relief will be …
• 14 November

  A Fast-Growing Payroc Widens Its Offering for Service Businesses

  

  Payroc LLC on Thursday announced its latest move in its expansion into service businesses. The Tinley Park, Ill.-based company said it is widening the capabilities of Roc Services with what it says is expanded scheduling utility and wider flexibility for pricing. Introduced in July last year, Roc Services allows business …
• 13 November

  Cash App Intros Its Moneybot AI Tool Amid a Range of New Features

  

  It’s a big update day for users of Cash App, the money-movement service from Block Inc., as a new artificial-intelligence tool, a borrowing service, and cryptocurrency options are added. Announced Thursday, the roster of 11 product updates to Cash App, which launched in 2013 as a person-to-person payment method called …
• 13 November

  Paysafe Aims to Boost the Company’s Growth in Merchant Processing

  

  Paysafe Ltd. early Thursday reported a net loss in its third-quarter results that widened to $87.7 million from $13 million last year as the company’s top executives expressed some frustration with its recent performance, particularly in its merchant-processing unit. Much of the loss, though, is attributable to a non-cash charge …
• 13 November

  FedNow Limit Bumped to $10 Million and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/13/25

  

  The Federal Reserve announced its FedNow real-time payments network has raised its transaction limit to $10 million from $1 million. The tenfold increase is expected to enable more transactions for such usages as corporate treasury and payroll, vendor payments, and real-estate transactions. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a release saying it may not …
• 12 November

  Shift4 Scores Another Stadium Pay Win; Electronic Merchant Systems Rebrands as Kurv

  

  Shift4 Payments Inc. continues to carve out a larger share of the stadium-pay market. The processor’s latest win is a deal with the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League to modernize and streamline transactions at the Bengals’ home field, Paycor Stadium. Shift4 will process transactions for all food and beverage …
• 12 November

  In Stablecoin Payments, ‘We Intend to Be the Leader,’ Says Circle’s CEO

  

  The payments industry for some time has been seeking meaningful growth in applications based on cryptocurrency, and early on Wednesday, one of the industry’s biggest players in that corner of the marketplace said it is making that happen with stablecoins—digital currency whose value is tied to fiat money like the …
• 12 November

  Catering Next for PARTech and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/12/25

  

  PAR Technology Corp. launched PAR Catering, a service to help restaurants build and manage their catering operations. Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit has launched a service that lets merchants accept bitcoin and manage digital assets in tandem with fiat currency. The service, which is charging no fees for the first year, includes …