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Consumers will keep one eye on their gift lists this holiday shopping season and the other on discounts and rewards to help pay for the gifts, suggests a new survey from Synchrony. Consumer finance specialist and issuer Synchrony says 66% of consumers plan to use retailer rewards they’ve earned to …
November, 2026
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9 November
Payments Canada Launches Its Real Time Rail
Payments Canada announced early Monday the launch of the nation’s real-time payments network, called Real Time Rail. The system allows financial institutions and payment service providers to exchange, clear, and settle payments in real time 24 hours a day every day, the network says. Bank of America, Digital Commerce Bank, …
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6 November
Affirm Card Users Grow 112% as Its Share of Volume Tops 23%
Affirm Holdings Inc.’s bet on its Affirm Card, a debit card that enables users to buy now and pay later, may be paying off for the BNPL provider. The number of active card users reached 6 million in the company’s fiscal first quarter ended Sept. 30, a 112% increase from …
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6 November
Gett Enlists AI As It Emerges in a Crowded Restaurant POS Market
Gett Technologies Inc. has launched First Party Everywhere, a facility allowing restaurants to take orders through AI assistants, video games, connected TVs, social platforms, consumer app, and in hotels. The company says it has signed 40,000 restaurants for its technology. The service, which runs through a restaurant’s existing ordering platform, …
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6 November
PARTech Revenue up 15% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/6/26
PAR Technology Corp., a point-of-sale provider for restaurants and retail, reported its third-quarter revenue totaled $137.1 million, up 15% year-over-year, while its net loss fell by half to $9 million. The company said it serves 174,400 active sites. Payments platform PSQ Holdings Inc. reported third-quarter revenue of $7.34 million, up 67% from …
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5 November
Visa Preps Agentic Commerce Benchmark And Forecasts a 4.5% Holiday Spending Jump
Though still in the infant stages, agentic commerce is being readied for an expected maturation as a much-used shopping channel. Visa Inc. is taking steps to help with the release of its Agentic Commerce Benchmark. The tool, now available for anyone to use online, puts AI models through what Visa …
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5 November
Global Looks to Its Genius POS Platform for Near-Term Growth
Global Payments Inc.’s top management early Thursday reported broad plans for its crucial Genius point-of-sale system while outlining its near-term approach to such critical technologies as artificial intelligence and its close relative, agentic commerce. The Genius technology, launched in the spring of last year, has now grown into “the flagship …
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5 November
50% Want AI Agent Approval and other Digital Transactions News Briefs from 11/5/26
Fifty percent of U.S. adults want to approve every transaction an AI agent might make for them, found a survey from FIS Inc. When asked about the conditions they would want to trust AI with their money, 58% wanted a refund guarantee for mistakes and 56% wanted access to a …
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4 November
Small Business Sales up 2.3%, Strongest Gain Since July 2025, Fiserv Says
As a merchant-specific barometer of small-business sales activity, the Fiserv Small Business Index for October may finally be showing evidence of an upswing. In October, the index showed a 2.3% year-over-year increase among SMBs, the strongest growth since July 2025, Fiserv says. From September to October, sales were up 0.3%, …
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4 November
Circle Looks to Multiple Fronts for Stablecoin Expansion
Circle Internet Group Inc. early Wednesday offered indications that digital money—specifically, stablecoins—is now moving steadily into mainstream finance. With partner companies, “we’re building the financial and economic infrastructure for the Internet, and upgrading the system for a world where people, businesses, and AI agents all transact onchain,” noted cofounder and …
