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PhotonPay announced over the weekend it has joined Circle Internet Financial’s fledgling Arc blockchain, representing the latest participant for Arc since Circle unveiled the network in August. Hong Kong-based PhotonPay, which in July became a Mastercard commercial card issuer, also supports Mastercard users of Google Pay to enable contactless payments …
November, 2025
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14 November
New Gen’s Agentic Commerce Platform Launches and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/14/25
E-commerce technology company New Generation released Kepler, an agentic commerce platform for retailers. Kepler has a suite of tools to help merchants structure, analyze, and present their product data in formats that both humans and artificial intelligence engines can understand, New Gen said. The Pix real-time payments network in Brazil is likely to surpass …
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13 November
FedNow Limit Bumped to $10 Million and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/13/25
The Federal Reserve announced its FedNow real-time payments network has raised its transaction limit to $10 million from $1 million. The tenfold increase is expected to enable more transactions for such usages as corporate treasury and payroll, vendor payments, and real-estate transactions. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a release saying it may not …
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12 November
In Stablecoin Payments, ‘We Intend to Be the Leader,’ Says Circle’s CEO
The payments industry for some time has been seeking meaningful growth in applications based on cryptocurrency, and early on Wednesday, one of the industry’s biggest players in that corner of the marketplace said it is making that happen with stablecoins—digital currency whose value is tied to fiat money like the …
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12 November
Catering Next for PARTech and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/12/25
PAR Technology Corp. launched PAR Catering, a service to help restaurants build and manage their catering operations. Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit has launched a service that lets merchants accept bitcoin and manage digital assets in tandem with fiat currency. The service, which is charging no fees for the first year, includes …
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10 November
Priority To Go Private? and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/10/25
Processor Priority Technology Holdings Inc. said it has received a preliminary, non-binding take-private proposal from an investor group led by Priority’s chairman and chief executive, Thomas Priore. The proposal envisions buying the shares the group does not already own at a price ranging from $6 to $6.15 each. The stock was trading …
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7 November
Cash App And Square Are Key for Block As It Looks to AI for the Future
The 12-year-old Cash App wallet remains a key driver for Block Inc. Cash App gross profits grew 24% year over year during the third quarter of 2025, which helped contribute to Block’s overall gross profit of $2.66 billion during the quarter, an 18% increase from a year earlier, Block chief …
October, 2025
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31 October
VerifiedX’s Butterfly; BitRail Expands Its Funding Option; Bitcoin Bancorp Integrates Technology for ATMs
The VerifiedX Foundation has launched Butterfly, a social-payment and commerce platform that allows users to send and receive VFX, the native VerifiedX cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin, USDT, and USDC coins—instantly via text message, email, or any social-media handle. The new service combines the ease of the Venmo and Zelle peer-to-peer payments networks with the sovereignty of blockchain …
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29 October
Visa’s Boss Cites Stablecoins And Agentic Commerce as Growth Drivers
An increasing focus on stablecoin initiatives, agentic commerce, and payments innovation helped propel Visa Inc. to a strong 2025 fiscal year and helped the card network to meet its goal of becoming a “hyperscaler” for companies in the payment ecosystem, Visa chief executive Ryan McInerney told analysts during Visa’s 2025 …
