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Steven Velasquez, Senior Vice President and Head of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank and Elavon As the 2025 holiday season approaches, a convergence of payments technology – from embedded financial services to Agentic AI – will influence consumer shopping behavior. Adobe for Business projects point-of-sale financing transactions will value …
December, 2025
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12 December
Stripe Launches Agentic Commerce Suite With Brands in Tow
Stripe Inc. continues its push to build an agentic commerce infrastructure late Thursday with the launch of its Agentic Commerce Suite. The new solution helps merchants use artificial intelligence-based agents to sell across multiple AI shopping platforms via a single integration to Stripe. In addition, Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite supports …
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12 December
Aurora Payments Goes for a Ride with 2S LimouSolution; Clara Capital Debuts Same-Day ISO Commissions
Differentiation is a key tactic in the payments world, and Aurora Payments and Clara Capital are the latest in merchant processing to stand out with new services. First, Tempe, Ariz.-based Aurora Payments is working with Germany-based 2S LimouSolution to integrate the Aurora Arise payment platform in 2S’s software. Launched in …
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11 December
Global Payments Details the Promise And Perils of Agentic Commerce
The promise and potential perils of agentic commerce as a digital technology are among the trends highlighted in Global Payments Inc.’s 2026 Commerce and Payments Trends Report. Beginning as a form of customer service based on its natural-language capabilities, artificial intelligence has begun to take off through the use of …
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11 December
Cleverbridge’s Adyen Tie-in and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/11/25
Cleverbridge Inc., a provider of merchant-of-record services for software companies, announced it will work with processor Adyen NV in an effort to ease growth for businesses looking to sell to customers globally. Pushpay Holdings Ltd., a payments and donation platform specializing in houses of worship, said it has launched artificial-intelligence …
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10 December
SoundHound Launches an In-Vehicle Reservation System; SpotOn Releases a Report on Restaurant Profitability
SoundHound AI Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-based voice technology apps, unfolded its voice commerce strategy in the hotly competitive restaurant market with the introduction of an in-vehicle, artificial intelligence-based reservations agent. The reservation system, developed with restaurant-reservation platform OpenTable Inc., connects drivers to a network of more than 60,000 …
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10 December
Mobile Gains in Bill Payment Preference
Yet more evidence of U.S. consumer reliance on mobile phones emerges as 45% of consumers prefer to pay their bills with a mobile device, up from 29% only last year. That finding from the InvoiceCloud 2026 Annual State of Online Payments Report also signals other big shifts in payment preferences. …
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10 December
The ‘Year of Machine Deception’ and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/10/25
A report from AU10TIX identified 2025 as the “year of machine deception,” in which synthetic identities and automated fraud engines have learned to adjust and adapt in real time. Cross River Bank said it has launched a proprietary, in-house card-processing engine in a move it says places it among a select group of …
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9 December
Swipe Fees Are a Drain on Consumers’ Wallets, a Merchant Group Says
Fees paid by merchants to accept credit card and debit cards will dampen consumer spending power this holiday shopping season as sellers look for ways to offset the cost, says the Merchants Payment Coalition. Swipe fees are projected to cost merchants at least $19.9 billion this holiday shopping season, up …
