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Payments standards body EMVCo is working with CharIN, a standards developer for electric-vehicle charging systems, to introduce what the two organizations call a “seamless and secure payment experience” for electric-vehicle charging worldwide. Bolt Financial Inc., a checkout and payments technology provider, announced Bolt Activate, a program aimed at assisting startups in digital commerce …
September, 2025
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18 September
PayPal and Google Team Up on Agentic Commerce
PayPal Holdings Inc. and Google Inc. have partnered to leverage their artificial intelligence capabilities in an effort to create what they see as more personalized shopping and payment experiences across their platforms and devices for consumers and merchants. The deal, announced late Wednesday, will bring together the two companies’ “global …
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18 September
MoneyGram Looks to Stablecoins for Cross-Border Transfers
MoneyGram International Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a mobile app featuring a U.S. dollar-backed stored-value account that will work with stablecoins as well as fiat currencies. The move, which comes as interest in stablecoins heats up in the mainstream payments market, represents a sweeping update of the remittance company’s mobile technology and …
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18 September
Echelon Eyes New Market and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/18/25
Payments-technology developer Echelon Payments said it will expand into processing for non-profit organizations by working with Create.Payments, a payments provider specializing in that market. Nuvei Corp. said its partnership with Loop Global, an electric vehicle charging services company, now includes direct local acquiring capabilities for turnkey unattended EV charging terminals in Canada. Embedded-payments …
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17 September
Cheba Hut Launches a Mobile App And a New Loyalty Program
Cheba Hut, a fast-casual restaurant chain specializing in submarine sandwiches, has launched a mobile app that supports ordering, payments, and a loyalty program. Developed with loyalty platform provider Thanx Inc., the app is intended to streamline both ordering and payment and encourage repeat visits. Ordering capabilities through the app are …
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17 September
Eye on Acquiring: PAX, Payroc Target ISVs; PARTech Debuts PAR Games
Acquirer Payroc is teaming with point-of-sale technology maker PAX Technology Inc. to make it easier for independent software vendors to use services from each company. And, PAR Technology Corp. launches PAR Games, a tool to drive loyalty and personalized interactions for merchants. PAX says the new collaboration with Payroc, called …
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17 September
Adyen’s LVMH Unification Plan and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/17/25
Payments processor Adyen NV said it is working with the luxury-goods retailer LVMH to unify the company’s payments systems across all of its brands. LVMH operates more than 1,000 stores globally. Payments processor Thredd announced it will support an expansion into the United States and Latin America by Reap, a provider of cards backed …
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16 September
Google Launches Its Agent Payments Protocol to Validate AI Agents Are Making Purchases
Google Inc. early Tuesday launched its Agent Payments Protocol, an open protocol to authenticate consumers who are initiating a payment using an AI agent when shopping online. Developed with 60 payments and technology companies, including Adyen NV, MasterCard Inc., and PayPal Holdings Inc., the protocol is intended to remove a …
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16 September
As Its Volume Reaches Record Highs, Zelle Launches a New SMB Feature
Zelle, the peer-to-peer payment service, appears on track for a banner year with a record 2 billion transactions processed in the first six months of 2025, a 19% increase from the 2024 first half. The dollar amount of these transactions increased more, reaching nearly $600 billion, up 23% from $481 …
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16 September
Affirm OK’d for In-Store Apple Pay Use and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/16/25
Buy now, pay later specialist Affirm Inc. announced it is offering its services through Apple Inc.’s Apple Pay mobile-payments app for in-store transactions. Apple enabled Affirm for online transactions in 2024. In related news, the payments platform Klarna AB said it too is now available on Apple Pay for in-store purchases, in this case in the …