News

November, 2026

• 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 …
• 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, …
• 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 …
• 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 …
• 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 …
• 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%, …
• 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 …
• 4 November

  Verifone’s Real Time Fraud Check and other Digital Transactions News Briefs from 11/4/26

  

  Verifone announced it has enabled Featurespace across its gateways. The technology, offered by Visa, checks individual payments for fraud in real time. Verifone’s service assesses more than 1,800 transaction attributes in real time for each payment. Chargeback management platform Justt updated its platform with Justt Flows, an automation engine for alerts …
• 3 November

  Embedded finance is reshaping the growth strategy for software companies

  
• 3 November

  Truist Speeds Up Merchant Onboarding Time and Adopts Clover and Paze

  

  Truist, the banking arm of Truist Financial Corp., is adding more merchant-services capabilities to its inventory with the addition of broader access to Clover point-of-sale devices and Paze, an online checkout service. Both are in addition to a new digital merchant-onboarding process. Charlotte, N.C.-based Truist says it is raising its …