April 24, 2026
Competitive Strategies, Digital Currency, E-Commerce, Mobile Commerce, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards
Voice-ordering specialist Maple Inc. said it is working with Quantic POS, a cloud-based point-of-sale system provider, to make Maple’s artificial intelligence voice-ordering platform available to Quantic merchants. Coastal Pay Inc. released its updated payment gateway that offers easier surcharging and dual pricing compatibility. Buy now, pay later provider Sunbit said it is now available on …
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April 21, 2026
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Digital Currency, E-Commerce, Fraud & Security, Marketing, Mobile Commerce, Person-to-Person Payments, Prepaid Cards
JetBlue Vacations said it will work with Flex Pay, a buy now, pay later platform, to offer monthly payment options to customers planning flight-and-hotel vacation packages. JetBlue Vacations is a unit of JetBlue Airways Corp. SpotOn Transact LLC said four hospitality operators were among new clients signed in the first quarter for …
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April 16, 2026
Competitive Strategies, Issuing/Originating, Prepaid Cards
Blackhawk Network, best known as a gift card platform, says it wants to make it easier for brands to present a consolidated view of a consumer’s gift card balance, refunds, promotional funds, loyalty rewards, and funds used to appease unhappy shoppers. The company’s new stored-value platform enables brands to send …
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March 31, 2026
Competitive Strategies, Debit Cards, Digital Currency, E-Commerce, Issuing/Originating, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Wallets, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Transaction Processing
Firms looking to bring stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies into the payments mainstream are working a variety of angles, as illustrated by news on multiple fronts that emerged early Tuesday. Convera USA LLC, a business-to-business payments platform and provider of foreign-exchange services, announced it will work with Ripple Labs Inc. to …
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March 19, 2026
Acquiring, Automated Clearing House, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Mobile Wallets, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Real-time Payments
Money-movement platform Thunes Financial Services Inc. announced Banco Cathay of Costa Rica has adopted its Pay-to-Wallet service for cross-border payments. Loyalzoo Ltd., a developer of customer-engagement software for merchants, announced an agreement under which it will integrate its customer-relationship technology with a new point-of-sale platform from Priority Technology Holdings Inc., the MX …
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February 13, 2026
Debit Cards, Fraud & Security, Issuing/Originating, Law and Regulation, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Transaction Processing
Chip cards are coming to state benefit programs, with the latest development emerging from Alabama. The state’s Department of Human Resources is mailing electronic benefit cards embedded with chips as a means to combat fraud, according to an announcement early Friday from the chip card supplier, Conduent Inc. The chip …
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February 4, 2026
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Debit Cards, E-Commerce, Issuing/Originating, Mobile Commerce, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Transaction Processing
Bolt Financial Inc., whose app offers checkout, identity, and payments capabilities, announced it is adding embedded investing capability through a deal with Atomic, an investing-as-a-service platform. Corpay Inc. said it will sell its PayByPhone mobile parking payments platform to Lightyear Capital in a deal expected to close in the second quarter. …
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January 30, 2026
Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, E-Commerce, Mobile Commerce, Person-to-Person Payments, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Real-time Payments, Transaction Processing
Visa Inc. chief executive Ryan McInerney touted the card network’s ability to build and deliver innovations and scalable technologies as drivers behind the company’s strong fiscal first quarter 2026 results. Processed-transaction dollar volume grew 8% year-over-year in the quarter to nearly $4 trillion in constant dollars, with transactions up 9% …
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January 5, 2026
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Digital Currency, E-Commerce, Mobile Commerce, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Pricing, Real-time Payments, Transaction Processing
A recap of the top 10 posts on DigitalTransactions.net in 2025. #1 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 …
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December 31, 2025
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, E-Commerce, Marketing, Mobile Commerce, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards
[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 …
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