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August, 2025

• 5 August

  AmEx Lends Its Restaurant Tech in a Deal With Toast

  

  Toast Inc. has agreed to work with American Express Co. to leverage the online reservation capabilities of the Resy and Tock platforms, which are owned by AmEx, as well as Toast’s Digital Chits technology. That technology allows restaurant staff to view customer information on Toast devices. Both companies will also …
• 5 August

  Shift4 Looks to Its Global Blue Deal for More Expansion

  

  Shift4 Payments Inc.’s top brass early Tuesday celebrated the long-awaited July 3 closing on its $2.5 billion deal to acquire Global Blue, a Switzerland -based international platform providing transaction services to high-end merchants. The deal clinches a major position internationally for the acquisitive processor, executives said on a call with …
• 5 August

  EMS’s Latest Acquisition and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/5/25

  

  Payments provider Electronic Merchant Systems acquired Paysley, an omnichannel payment platform. Terms were not disclosed. EMS also recently invested in Payment Nerds and Pet Payments, and acquired Peel Payments in April. Processor FIS Inc. reported June-quarter revenue of $2.6 billion, up 5% from the same period last year. The company’s banking solutions unit took in $1.8 billion, up …
• 4 August

  What Visa’s VAMP Means for You

  

  There’s another acronym joining the payments world: VAMP is a new set of security measures and requirements coming from Visa. The full name is “Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program,” and it brings with it new challenges — and protections — for merchants, acquiring banks, and partners building payment solutions. Why does …
• 4 August

  CDK Launches SimplePay to Streamline Payments for Auto Dealers

  

  CDK Global LLC, a provider of cloud-based software for auto dealerships and original equipment manufacturers, has launched SimplePay, a cloud-based payments solution for auto dealers. Austin, Texas-based CDK developed SimplePay to help dealers streamline payments throughout their dealerships, such as service, parts, and accessories purchases through a single platform. The …
• 4 August

  How Fast Food POS Can Bring on Fast Headaches

  

  Having fought back from the ravages of the pandemic, quick-service restaurants now represent a large and fast-growing market for providers of point-of-sale technology—but also one presenting new and vexing challenges, according to top payments executives who specialize in this industry. For fast-food or fast-casual restaurants, “building a point of sale …
• 4 August

  Fiserv Index up 1 Point and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/4/25

  

  The July report from the Fiserv Small Business Index increased to 149, up one point from June. Year-over-year sales increased 3.6% and transactions grew 3%. Consumer spending increased from June, but their foot traffic into small businesses was nearly flat, Fiserv said. NewtekOne Inc. and its banking unit, NewTek Bank N.A., launched a …
• 1 August

  Stablecoins Prove To Be a Reliable Revenue Source for Coinbase

  

  Revenue from its stablecoin offerings grew smartly in the second quarter for cryptocurrency platform provider Coinbase Global Inc. against a backdrop of a tough digital currency market. New York City-based Coinbase reported Thursday that it posted $332.5 million in stablecoin revenue, up 38% from $240.4 million in the year-earlier quarter. …
• 1 August

  Ordr Lands a Stadium Pay Deal With the Orlando City Soccer Club

  

  Major League Soccer franchise Orlando City SC has partnered with Ordr Technologies, an AI-powered payments platform for enterprise venues, stadiums, and teams, to process transactions at Inter&Co Stadium, the team’s home field. Salt Lake City, Utah-based Ordr will provide high-speed transaction processing with real-time analytics that will give Orlando City …
• 1 August

  Blackhawk’s Fold Gift Card and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/1/25

  

  Payments platform Blackhawk Network Inc. is working with Fold Holdings Inc., a financial-services company specializing in Bitcoin, to widen distribution of the Fold Bitcoin Gift Card, launched in May. More online merchants are expected to begin offering the card in coming weeks, the parties say. Worldwide Stablecoin Payment Network (WSPN) has launched Global …