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With large payments companies beginning to incorporate cryptocurrency and alternative payment methods into their processing flows, the opportunity for sales agents and their acquirers to sell another payment-acceptance method is growing. That’s the takeaway from a panel discussion this week at the Southeast Acquirers Association conference in Miami Beach, Fla. …

Payments executives who may be hoping that a court ruling Tuesday will put an end to years of bitter wrangling over card-acceptance costs are likely to be disappointed, experts tell Digital Transactions News. “This does not end the argument. It just stifles it,” says Cliff Gray, principal at Gray Consulting …

For the better part of two decades, I’ve watched the payments industry evolve from a straightforward utility into a labyrinth of technical complexity. Merchant fee structures today are no longer just the cost of doing business. They are a volatile variable that can quietly erode a company’s bottom line. As …

Colorado’s SB 26-134, a bill that would have eliminated sales tax as part of the interchange-fee calculation, has been vetoed by Gov. Jared Polis. SB 26-134, similar to the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, would have taken effect Jan. 1, 2028, had Polis approved it. The contentious Illinois law, which …

A last-minute budget move will see the implementation date for the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act pushed back a year, to July 1, 2027. Originally scheduled to become law Monday, the IFPA would have seen interchange on sales tax and tips prohibited. How it would have been implemented has been …

Business-to-business billing and revenue management platform Maxio LLC said credit card surcharging is now available in its Maxio Payments service. Payments platforms Ordr and FreedomPay said they are collaborating to create a gateway and commerce platform for companies offering live entertainment around the world. Payments platform NCR Voyix Corp. said it is working with U.S. Bank’s …

A Colorado bill that would eliminate sales tax as part of the interchange fee calculation has moved to Gov. Jared Polis’s desk for review following passage Wednesday in the Colorado House. It passed a state Senate vote last week. Similar in some ways to the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, …

Point-of-sale technology provider NCR Voyix Corp. reported March-quarter revenue dipped slightly to $606 million compared to $612 million in the year-earlier period, led by a 6% slide in restaurant revenue, to $179 million. The company narrowed its net loss to $5 million from $17 million a year ago. Point-of-sale systems provider Aptos LLC said Boot …

Real-estate software developer MRI Software said it has named Deluxe Corp. its official processing partner for its rent-payment technology. Commerce.com Inc., the parent company of e-commerce platform BigCommerce, said it has integrated PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Store Sync technology in BigCommerce’s App Marketplace and Channel Manager. The move aims to make Commerce merchants’ …

Electronic Verification Systems launched AssureACH, a service to prevent fraud at the point of capture. Among its features are real-time demand deposit account and routing number validation. MiCamp Solutions has agreed to serve as an independent sales organization representing Vibe Retail, a developer of point-of-sale technology aimed at independent merchants. The Electronic Transactions …