Point-of-sale

January, 2026

• 2 January

  Eye on AI: Worldpay Adds AI Safeguards; Pushpay’s Approach to AI

  

  [Aug. 14] As artificial intelligence use builds in the commercial world, its manifestations in consumer-facing payments applications continue to emerge. The latest developments include processor Worldpay using Trulioo’s identity technology for AI-enabled measures in agentic commerce and Pushpay’s introduction of AI tools for ministry leaders. Worldpay, which is expected to be …
• 2 January

  Customer Satisfaction And Card Usage Drop When Sellers Levy Credit Card Surcharges, Says J.D. Power

  

  [Aug. 14] Credit card usage and cardholder satisfaction decline when merchants levy a surcharge to offset their card-acceptance costs, J.D. Power’s 2025 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction study finds. When consumers are levied a surcharge, satisfaction scores drop 39 points to 602 on a 1,000-point scale, compared to consumers that have not …

December, 2025

• 31 December

  Gift Card Demand Is Poised to Increase This Holiday Season

  

  [Aug. 15] The percentage of consumers purchasing gift cards has gone up and is expected to increase yet more this year, finds a new report Bank of America Corp. commissioned from TSG, a payments advisory firm. The report found that 38% of respondents purchased a digital gift card in 2024, up …
• 31 December

  Court Rules CFPB Funding Must Continue and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/31/26

  

  A federal court ruled that the Trump administration cannot let its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau lapse, the Associated Press reported. The White House has contested how the CFPB is funded, but the judge said its argument about how the bureau “gets its funds is not valid,” the AP said. …
• 30 December

  Affirm Partners With Stripe And Google Pay; Zip’s Chrome Autofill Integration

  

  [Aug. 13] Buy now, pay later platform Affirm Holdings Inc. has expanded its partnership with Stripe Inc. to make its BNPL services available to in-store shoppers through the Stripe terminal. Stripe, which has deployed more than a million terminals, is making Affirm available as a payment method to physical merchants in …
• 30 December

  Retailer Picks Stripe POS Terminals and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/30/25

  

  Currys, a United Kingdom-based technology retailer, formed a new partnership with Stripe Inc. that will see Stripe point-of-sale terminals installed in the merchant’s nearly 300 stores. The global credit card market is forecasted to grow in transaction value from $14.83 trillion in 2025 to $17.73 trillion in 2030, according to a report from Mordor …
• 29 December

  Eye on POS: ParTech’s 44% Revenue Bump; SoundHound AI’s Three-Fold Growth

  

  [Aug. 8] Separate efforts by Par Technology Corp. and SoundHound AI Inc. to boost their wins, especially among restaurant clients, appear to be paying off, if their latest earnings are indicators. ParTech, based in New Hartford, N.Y., is coming off its $132-million acquisition in January of Delaget LLC, a platform …
• 29 December

  Back to the Drawing Board on Debit Rates: Sorting Out Winners and Losers

  

  [Aug. 8] With merchants prevailing in their long-running legal battle to overturn debit rate caps set by the Federal Reserve, the largest debit card issuers could wind up the biggest losers, while Capital One Financial Corp. emerges as the big winner. U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota …
• 26 December

  J.P. Morgan Payments Opts for Proprietary POS Terminals

  

  [Jan. 13] J.P. Morgan Payments, the payments arm of banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co., is blazing its own path with two new payment terminals, both proprietary to the payment service. Announced Monday, the J.P. Morgan Paypad and Pinpad integrate in-store biometric authentication with payment acceptance. The point-of-sale devices are …
• 26 December

  Mixue Picks MenuSifu and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/26/25

  

  MenuSifu Inc., a payments-technology provider specializing in Asian restaurants in the U.S. market, announced it is serving China-based Mixue as the restaurant chain begins to establish itself in the U.S. Mixue has become the world’s largest beverage chain by number of locations, with 47,000 outlets, according to MenuSifu’s announcement. Cryptocurrency …