- PAR Technology Corp. will provide its PAR POS and PAR OPS technologies for ordering and restaurant management under an agreement announced by Papa John’s International Inc., operator of more than 6,000 locations globally. PAR OPS is a back-of-house management platform.
- Ingenico Group announced it will work with Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions to introduce a mobile checkout product for U.S. grocery stores. The product is expected to be based on the Moby 5500 device from Ingenico, as well as Toshiba’s TCx M7 and TCx M11 mobile devices.
- In related news, Ingenico said it will work with WalletConnect Pay, a cryptocurrency payment provider, to enable merchants to accept supported stablecoins on Ingenico Android POS terminals worldwide.
- Point-of-sale equipment maker Equinox Payments released its Luxe 6700x payment device.
- Dealer Pay, a payments platform for automobile dealers, said it will integrate CrossCheck’s point-of-sale services, including check, automated clearing house, and remote deposit capture, into its software.
- Payments and gateway provider Network Merchants Inc., or NMI, said it processed more than $502 billion in annual payment volume and more than 6.5 billion transactions annually and served more than 1.2 million active merchants.
- Chargebacks 911 issued an advisory for merchants facing increased chargebacks following the end of the 2025 holiday shopping season.
- Visa Inc. released its Global Economic Outlook for 2026 report that forecasts global gross domestic product will increase 2.7% in 2026 from 2025 and that generative AI use will reshape small business competition.
- Circle Internet Group Inc. released its Beyond Stablecoins: The Rise of the Internet Financial System report that outlines Circle’s framework for how it views Internet-native financial infrastructure and adoption across payments, capital markets, and humanitarian use cases.
- Bitcoin kiosk operator Bitcoin Depot has acquired Instant Coin Bank, a rival operator with machines in Texas and Oklahoma. Terms were not disclosed.
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