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- PAR Technology Corp., a payments-technology provider, has launched PAR Retail Drive, an AI tool aimed at aiding convenience stores and fuel retailers in data analysis and decision-making.
- Shift4 Payments Inc. said it has closed on its acquisition of Bambora North America, collectively the North American unit of Worldline, the big Paris-based processor. The deal, announced in October, includes more than 140,000 merchants and more than 500 independent software vendors (ISVs). Terms were not disclosed.
- Payments provider 1PriceSwipes said it joined the Square POS independent sales organization channel, which 1PriceSwipes said launched in the 2025 fourth quarter. 1PriceSwipes said it will offer Square’s point-of-sale product with added support for merchants.
- SoFi Technologies Inc. said it has worked with Mastercard Inc. to enable SoFi’s SoFiUSD stablecoin as a settlement option throughout Mastercard’s network. Alongside this development, SoFi Bank N.A. now expects to settle Mastercard credit and debit transactions in SoFiUSD.
- Visa Inc. and Stripe Inc.’s Bridge stablecoin-acceptance and -settlement unit said they are expanding a global card-issuance platform launched last year to now allow card transactions to be settled onchain with Visa.
- The Fiserv Inc. Small Business Index for February held at 143 from January, though year-over-year sales at measured businesses increased 1.2%. Fiserv said higher average tickets and a shift in demand during winter likely drove sales higher. The index is derived from point-of-sale transaction data, including card, cash, and check payments made in-store and online at approximately 2 million U.S. SMBs.
- Fraud prevention provider Riskified expanded its AI Agent Intelligence platform to include AI agent identity signals and improvements to its AI agent policy building service.
- Payment-orchestration platform CellPoint Digital Holdings Ltd. said it has created a PayPal Holdings Inc. integration, simplifying acceptance for merchants looking to take PayPal payments.
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