News

June, 2026

• 17 June

  Toast To Go Hands-on with New Restaurant

  

  Boston-based Toast Inc. is stepping back to its early efforts to develop its point-of-sale products with the Toast Lab collaboration. Toast Lab will see the POS system maker work with a restaurant operator in the Boston area on new POS products and services. Toast says it will provide funding and …
• 17 June

  How Cards Are Exploiting Niche Payments Opportunities

  

  Card programs for specialized payments often get lost in the shuffle, but a pair of developments this week indicate the market for card-driven payments remains vibrant in the age of cardless digital transactions. This is especially the case lately with respect to markets like dealerships and housing. Brex LLC, a …
• 17 June

  PayIt Taps AI for Gov. App and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/17/26

  

  PayIt, a payments provider for state and local governments, launched PayIt Smart Works, a slate of AI-enabled functions for back-office operations, including consolidation of payment, banking, and remittance data. Banking-technology provider Mercury launched Mercury Command, an AI-based platform enabling users to make payments and conduct other financial business via natural-language command. Sutton …
• 16 June

  Adyen Readies for Agentic Commerce with Adyen Agentic

  

  Count processor Adyen N.V. as another payments company preparing for the expected growth in agentic commerce. Its launch of Adyen Agentic will make it easier for merchants on the platform to incorporate agentic commerce into their sales channels, Adyen says. With the foundations of agentic commerce which IBM defines as …
• 16 June

  Paze Adds to Its Marketing Push With Statement Credits

  

  As e-commerce volumes climb, Early Warning Services LLC has been pushing its Paze online checkout service in a national campaign that started earlier this month. The latest chapter in that effort arrived early Tuesday with the news that Paze will award a $10 statement credit to users who use the …
• 16 June

  PARTech Lands Pizza Factory and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/16/26

  

  PAR Technology Corp. said it has signed Pizza Factory for its PAR POS, PAR Ordering, and other PAR technologies to be installed at all of the restaurant chain’s 110 stores. Zip Co Ltd. announced it intends to support Stripe Inc.’s Shared Payment Tokens for checkout via AI agents. Pacific Gas & Electric is …
• 15 June

  Nuvei Eyes Payoneer’s Cross-Border Expertise; AmEx Looks to Bulk up Restaurant Bookings

  

  Nuvei Corp. appears ready to escalate its cross-border payments prowess with a $2.75 billion acquisition of Payoneer Inc., known for its cross-border capability. In related news, American Express Co. wants to acquire TheFork, an online restaurant reservation and management platform in Europe. Montreal-based Nuvei says the deal will help it …
• 15 June

  As Lyons Moves to Truist, Fiserv Appoints a New CEO

  

  Michael Lyons, chief executive of Fiserv Inc. since May last year, is leaving the big processor to take on the role of chief executive at Truist Financial Corp. Fiserv announced co-president Takis Georgakopoulos has succeeded Lyons as CEO and member of the board of directors, effective immediately. That appointment is expected …
• 15 June

  The Knot Adds Venmo and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/15/26

  

  The Knot Worldwide, a marketplace for wedding technology, said it added Venmo as a payment option on its Wedding Registry, allowing users to send money as gifts via bank account, debit card, or Venmo balance. Venmo is a unit of PayPal Holdings Inc. Glia, an AI provider for banks, unveiled Glia AI Outreach, a …
• 12 June

  Crypto and Alternative Payments Could Open New Revenue Doors for Acquirers, Agents

  

  With large payments companies beginning to incorporate cryptocurrency and alternative payment methods into their processing flows, the opportunity for sales agents and their acquirers to sell another payment-acceptance method is growing. That’s the takeaway from a panel discussion this week at the Southeast Acquirers Association conference in Miami Beach, Fla. …