Point-of-sale

February, 2025

• 20 February

  Faster Payments Not Fast Enough and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/20/25

  

  For financial institutions that have so far adopted real-time payments, 58% have opted for both FedNow and The Clearing House Payments Co.’s RTP system. But only 41% of large banks and 28% of businesses agree that the United States is moving fast enough toward adoption of faster payments. This is …
• 19 February

  Mastercard Launches One Credential To Give Gen Zers Access to Multiple Payment Methods Via A Single Card

  

  Mastercard Inc. announced early Wednesday the launch of One Credential, a digital-payment solution that supports multiple payment methods such as credit, debit, and prepaid, as well as installment loans, on a single card. Targeted primarily at Gen Zers, One Credential allows consumers to tailor their payment methods to better manage …
• 19 February

  Shift4 Bulks Up in Europe With a $2.5 Billion Deal for Global Blue

  

  Shift4 Payments Inc. is beefing up its operations in Europe on the eve of founder and chief executive Jared Isaacman’s departure to run the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Allentown, Pa.-based processor announced late Tuesday a $2.5-billion agreement to acquire Global Blue, a Switzerland-based international platform providing transaction services …
• 19 February

  Discover Merger a Step Closer and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/19/25

  

  Separate stockholder meetings for Capital One Financial Corp. and Discover Financial Services voted to approve Capital One’s proposed acquisition of Discover, a deal that was first proposed a year ago. Cap One says it now expects the $35.3-billion transaction to close early this year, subject to approval from the Federal Reserve System’s Board of …
• 18 February

  Toast Adds Perkins And Huddle House to Its Restaurant Menu

  

  Toast Inc. has signed Ascent Hospitality Management, which owns and manages the Perkins American Food Co. and Huddle House restaurant chains, as a client. Ascent will install Toast’s payments platform in 500 Perkins and Huddle House locations initially. Ascent installed the first Toast platform at a Perkins location last fall, the …
• 18 February

  CellPoint’s New Platform and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/18/25

  

  CellPoint Digital Holdings Ltd. introduced a new payment-orchestration platform aimed at simplifying travel payments and related orders and offers. Merchant data provider Spade Data Inc. said it will work with Bilt Rewards, a loyalty provider for home and rent payments, to provide more merchant details to Bilt users. PSQ Holdings Inc. said it has …
• 17 February

  Now Book It Expands to Canada

  

  Now Book It, a vendor of table-reservation and payments software for restaurants in Australia and New Zealand, has expanded to Canada. Canada has more than 100,000 locations that serve food, such as restaurants, cafés and brew pubs, generating $112 billion in annual sales, according to Restaurants Canada. In addition, 23 …
• 17 February

  InComm’s Red Cross Donation and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/17/25

  

  InComm Payments, which has launched the Mastercard Give Hope gift card, has agreed to donate to the American Red Cross $2 from the purchase price of each card sold on mastercardgiftcard.com. Cubic Transportation Systems Inc., a developer of payments technologies for mass-transit systems, announced it is opening an innovation center …
• 14 February

  Clover, Square, And Epos Now Top a Javelin Ranking of POS Systems for Small Businesses

  

  The days of placing a point-of-sale terminal on a small business’s countertop and calling it enough have long passed. Now, as these merchants—defined as having less than $1 million in annual sales—want just as much varied payment acceptance and operational software sophistication as much larger ones, Javelin Strategy & Research …
• 14 February

  EasyPark Acquires Rival Parkopedia and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/14/25

  

  EasyPark Group, a provider of technology that allows drivers to find and pay for parking, said it has acquired rival parking app developer Parkopedia. Terms were not announced. The health-care fintech Veuu Inc. announced it will work with Wipro Ltd., a consulting company, to develop an instant-payment service for transactions between payers …