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September, 2025

• 19 September

  Holiday Sales Will Slow as Tariffs And Inflation Weigh on Consumers

  

  Two reports, one from Mastercard Inc. and another from Omnisend, an email and SMS marketing platform for e-commerce businesses, indicate that sales during the 2025 holiday season will grow at a slower rate than the previous year as consumers wrestle with higher prices due to inflation and tariffs.  The Mastercard …
• 19 September

  Early Warning Looks to Work With U.S. Agencies to Fight Fraud

  

  Early Warning Services LLC has for several years now been defending its popular Zelle payments service against allegations that its users suffer excessive losses to scams and fraud. The issue reached a crescendo three years ago with criticism from U.S. Senators about the peer-to-peer payments service’s fraud rates. With the …
• 19 September

  EMVCo Sets Sights on a Car Charging POS Standard and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/19/25

  

  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 …
• 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 …
• 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 …
• 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 …
• 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 …
• 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 …
• 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 …
• 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 …