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Fresha, a provider of booking and payments technology for barbers and beauty-shop proprietors, said Friday its roster of barber clients has climbed 108% year-over-year, moving the company to claim number-one status among tech developers for the hair-care market. The 11-year-old, London-based company, which supports hair-care shops and companies in the …
September, 2026
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25 September
Finix Broadens Merchant POS Controls and other Digital Transactions News briefs 9/25/26
Point-of-sale technology provider Finix announced client businesses can now build and deploy custom Android applications for POS terminals managed by Finix, which says the capability gives merchants broader control over ordering, checkout, and post-payment functions. Vanco, a payments provider for churches, schools, and nonprofits, said it is working with church-technology platform ACS …
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24 September
A Judge’s Ruling Re-Ignites a Fierce Battle Over Interchange
A federal court ruling issued Tuesday has re-ignited a longstanding dispute over the question whether tips and tax can be exempted from the calculation of interchange merchants pay on credit card transactions in Illinois following that state’s adoption in 2024 of the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. The controversial act …
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24 September
Scooter’s Opts for Olo and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/24/26
Scooter’s Coffee, a drive-through chain with more than 900 locations in 32 states, is using restaurant-payments specialist Olo to run its digital-ordering service, Olo announced. SumUp has launched U.S. POS Plus, a subscription-based point-of-sale technology offering for small café and restaurant businesses. Square, the merchant services arm of Block Inc., said its sellers …
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21 September
Priority Announces It Will Go Private in a $1.6 Billion Deal
An investor group led by Priority Technology Holdings Inc. chairman and chief executive Thomas Priore will take the processor private in a deal valued at $1.6 billion, or $8.05 per share in cash, Priority announced early Monday. The company’s closing share price on Friday was $5.83. The agreement follows a …
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18 September
ACI Research Spotlights a Cautious Consumer
Caution among consumers when it comes to spending has led more than half of them to favor debit cards for purchases by a wide margin over credit cards, while a significant percentage want control over when their bills are paid, according to the latest ACI Speedpay Pulse Report from the …
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18 September
Quill Bank’s Acquiring Move and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/18/26
Quill Bank announced it has launched its Acquiring Line of Business unit to serve payment facilitators, ISOs, ISVs, and fintechs, and has named payments veteran Deborah Camm senior vice president and head of acquiring. Alchemy, a technology developer for agentic commerce and onchain transactions, announced an integration with Mastercard Agent Pay …
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17 September
Bottomline Sees Its Global Pay Connect Setting the Stage for Future Payments
Bottomline Technologies Inc. early Thursday unveiled Global Pay Connect, a platform aimed at easing real-time payments adoption for banks through APIs. The move comes as the company’s research indicates 40% of chief financial officers at banks name outdated technology as the biggest obstacle to real-time payment adoption. “Financial institutions are …
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17 September
Square Doubles Down on Its Renewed Interest in ISOs as a Sales Channel
Square is making a big play for independent sales organizations, a merchant-sales model it shunned 16 years ago in favor of direct acquiring. Square, the point-of-sale and acquiring unit of Block Inc., is one of the sponsors of the Western States Acquirers Association conference this week in Palm Desert, Calif. …
