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PAR Technology Corp., a provider of payments technology to restaurants, said Krystal Restaurants LLC has opted to use PAR’s Punchh loyalty technology to support its recently introduced Club Krystal program. Krystal operates close to 300 locations in 11 states. Payments-technology platform Yeeld said it has expanded its surcharging service to Canada for …
October, 2025
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21 October
How Flexa’s Venture With Bealls Could Be Key for Crypto
Flexa Network Inc., a payments provider based on digital currencies, has agreed to support in-store cryptocurrency acceptance at Bealls Inc., operator of more than 660 stores in 22 states under Bealls and other brand names. The move, announced Monday afternoon, represents one of the largest planned deployments of in-store crypto …
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21 October
Wayfair Adds Affirm In-Store and other Digital Transactions News from 10/21/25
Buy now, pay later specialist Affirm Holdings Inc. expanded its partnership with retailer Wayfair Inc. to include in-store transactions. Wayfair initially adopted Affirm in 2016 for online checkout. First Internet Bank adopted Zelle, a peer-to-peer payment service, for its business customers. Payment orchestration platform Gr4vy Inc. completed an integration with the new Mastercard Merchant Cloud, a payments platform …
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20 October
Global Payments Expands Its Sports Team And Venue Portfolio
Global Payments Inc. has expanded its reach into the highly competitive world of payment processing for sports teams and entertainment venues through a deal with sports and venue-management company Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment LLC. Global Payments will be the official payment technology provider for the Prudential Center, as well …
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17 October
AmEx Looks to a Refreshed High End Card for Platinum Results
American Express Co.’s new campaigns to build more intimate relationships with restaurants and refresh its top-end Platinum card are starting to show signs of paying off, the card company said early Friday. The initiatives come as the company reported revenue growth of 11% year-over-year for the September quarter. The effort …
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17 October
FedNow Surpasses 1,500 Participants and other Digital Transactions News from 10/17/25
The Federal Reserve said the number of participating organizations in FedNow, its real-time payments service, recently surpassed 1,500. Euronet Worldwide Inc. said it will use the digital asset technology from Fireblocks to integrate stablecoin technology into its global payments infrastructure. Point-of-sale technology developer PAX Technology Inc., based in China but a prominent supplier in …
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16 October
UATP Teams With Burbank to Turn Online Payments into Card Present Transactions
Universal Air Travel Plan Inc. (UATP) early Thursday announced it has partnered with Burbank, a United Kingdom-based fintech, to deploy an app that enables mobile devices to act as a POS terminal to process card-present transactions over the Internet. The app is embedded in the merchant’s mobile app, which …
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16 October
FIS Smart Basket Coming and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/16/25
Processor FIS Inc. said it will soon release Smart Basket, technology designed to automatically optimize rewards and payment methods at checkout. Mastercard Inc. and Visa Inc. reached a proposed settlement of $199.5 million in a class action lawsuit a group of merchants filed almost 10 years ago, Reuters reported. The settlement still requires …
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15 October
Shop Pay Enabled on Global-e Platform and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/15/25
E-commerce specialist Global-e said Shop Pay’s one-click checkout is now available for its merchants using the Shopify platform. C-store chain Circle K has partnered with Car IQ, a vehicle-based payments platform, to launch Circle K Pro Digital +, a U.S.-based payments service for fuel, tolls, and other vehicle-related payments. Payroc announced it has enabled …
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14 October
Mastercard’s Merchant Cloud Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/14/25
Mastercard Inc. unveiled Merchant Cloud, a payments platform aimed at easing the way for businesses to conduct commerce globally while entering new markets and adopting new end-user technologies. Block Inc. said it will work with food-delivery service Grubhub to overhaul restaurants’ ordering systems by integrating with Square’s point-of-sale platform and adding Cash …
