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August, 2025

• 11 August

  Western Union To Acquire Money-Transfer Rival Intermex for $500 Million

  

  In a move to bolster its leading position in an increasingly difficult money-transfer market, The Western Union Co. announced Sunday it has a deal to acquire International Money Express Inc. for $500 million in cash. Better known as Intermex, Miami-based International Money Express has built a retail network of 100,000 …
• 11 August

  SpotOn Enhances Its Online Ordering Platform; Global Payments Adds Another Pro Sports Client

  

  SpotOn Transact LLC has enhanced its online ordering platform for independent restaurants with several new features intended to engender customer loyalty and drive repeat business. One of the new features is GoTo Place, a mobile app that allows restaurants to create their own branded mobile storefront. What differentiates GoTo Place …
• 11 August

  Shift4’s Blue Origin Crypto Plans and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/11/25

  

  Shift4 Payments Inc. said it is working with Blue Origin, a space technology company, to enable customers to pay for space flights with cryptocurrency and stablecoins. Payments technology provider Thunes announced a deal with Ontop, a payroll and financial platform, to enable freelancers and remote workers real-time access to their earnings. Payments technology …
• 8 August

  Fintiv Sues Apple over Apple Pay Technology Claims and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/8/25

  

  Fintiv Inc., a digital-wallet developer, has sued Apple Inc., alleging the iPhone maker stole mobile-wallet technology from Fintiv to further its development of Apple Pay. The case was filed in the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. Apple Pay debuted in October 2014. Fintiv at the time was known as …
• 8 August

  Eye on POS: ParTech’s 44% Revenue Bump; SoundHound AI’s Three-Fold Growth

  

  Separate efforts by Par Technology Corp. and SoundHound AI Inc. to boost their wins, especially among restaurant clients, appear to be paying off, if their latest earnings are indicators. ParTech, based in New Hartford, N.Y., is coming off its $132-million acquisition in January of Delaget LLC, a platform providing analytics …
• 8 August

  Back to the Drawing Board on Debit Rates: Sorting Out Winners and Losers

  

  With merchants prevailing in their long-running legal battle to overturn debit rate caps set by the Federal Reserve, the largest debit card issuers could wind up the biggest losers, while Capital One Financial Corp. emerges as the big winner. U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota Judge Daniel …
• 7 August

  Finzly Moves to Support Stablecoins, While Ripple Acquires Stablecoin Platform Rail

  

  Finzly, a developer of payments technology for financial institutions, says it is preparing to support stablecoins and tokenized deposits. The move is aimed at helping financial institutions remain relevant as programmable money becomes more common, the company says. Programmable money is a digital form of currency that can be programmed …
• 7 August

  Eye on Acquisitions: Deluxe Snaps up CheckMatch; Marqeta Closes on TransactPay

  

  Deluxe Corp. is expanding its digital lockbox capabilities with the acquisition of CheckMatch, formerly part of a J.P. Morgan business unit. Meanwhile, Marqeta Inc. completed its purchase of TransactPay, a BIN-sponsorship provider. Minneapolis-based Deluxe says the addition of CheckMatch, which had been part of Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, the bank’s …
• 7 August

  Klarna Strikes WooCommerce Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/7/25

  

  Klarna AB announced its payments services are available at WooCommerce stores using a plug-in from Stripe Inc. The number of such stores is said to reach hundreds of thousands. Valiify, a loan-origination platform, is working with payments firm Payfinia to use Payfinia’s PaymentXchange platform. Crypto wallet Bitget has launched its stablecoin-backed Mastercard in Brazil, with …
• 6 August

  Forter Launches Identity Monitoring for Agentic Commerce

  

  Identity-intelligence platform provider Forter has launched a service that it says enables digital merchants to vet AI agents across the entire shopping process, including payment. The new capability within the Forter platform is intended to help merchants combat fraud in the artificial-intelligence era, which has seen the rise of AI …