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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 …
November, 2025
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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 …
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29 October
Worldpay And Agentic Commerce and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/29/25
The big processor Worldpay announced it will support the Agentic Commerce Protocol, a standard that allows artificial-intelligence agents to work with buyers and businesses to complete transactions. The processor Fiserv Inc. reported third-quarter revenue of $5.26 billion, a 1% year-on-year increase. Year-to-date revenue rose 4.6% to $15.9 billion. Net income for the quarter totaled …
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24 October
Alacriti Adds Visa Direct for Real Time Payments
Alacriti, a provider of cloud-native payment and money-movement services, has integrated Visa Direct into its Orbipay Payments Hub. The integration will enable financial institutions in North America to provide card-based real-time payments, even if they do not have a connection to a real-time payments hub, such as the RTP network …
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24 October
Will Zelle’s Stablecoin Venture ‘Reinvent Cross-Border Payments for a New Age’?
Early Warning Services LLC announced early Friday its Zelle payments network will expand internationally by using stablecoins for cross-border transactions. Many details of the new initiative, such as expected volumes and fees, were not immediately available, but the move is aimed at offering faster international payments capability “to Zelle customers …
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24 October
Zip Expands Stripe Partnership and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/24/25
Zip Co. Ltd. said its payments services are available for U.S. merchants through checkout services managed by Stripe Inc., including Elements, Checkout, and Payment Links. Fintech Everyday People Financial Corp. has agreed to manage network-branded card and digital-wallet programs offered by XTM Inc., a provider of real-time payments and earned-wage access, in a deal …
