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SpotOn Transact LLC has launched DayCheck, an earned-tip payment app that automates employee tip payouts for restaurants. The app, which integrates with SpotOn’s Teamwork labor-management platform, automatically calculates tips earned by employees. After tips have been calculated, the information flows into Teamwork, which records the payouts in the payroll report, …
September, 2025
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22 September
Eye on Travel: CellPoint Digital’s Orchestration Move; Navan Readies for an IPO
Travel-payments specialist CellPoint Digital is launching a platform to tie into a new retailing model quickly being adopted by the travel industry. In related news, Navan Inc., an expense-management platform, is readying for a public stock offering. London-based CellPoint Digital says its new One Source Orchestration platform is tailored to …
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22 September
Paysafe Picks up CMC and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/22/25
Paysafe Ltd. will process payments for online-trading and investment platform CMC Markets under a newly announced agreement. Some 83% of U.S. executives think that by 2027 most payments will be assisted in some fashion by artificial intelligence, but 25% report they’re losing at least $1 million a year at online checkout, …
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19 September
Holiday Sales Will Slow as Tariffs And Inflation Weigh on Consumers
Two reports, one from Mastercard Inc. and another from Omnisend, an email and SMS marketing platform for e-commerce businesses, indicate that sales during the 2025 holiday season will grow at a slower rate than the previous year as consumers wrestle with higher prices due to inflation and tariffs. The Mastercard …
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19 September
Early Warning Looks to Work With U.S. Agencies to Fight Fraud
Early Warning Services LLC has for several years now been defending its popular Zelle payments service against allegations that its users suffer excessive losses to scams and fraud. The issue reached a crescendo three years ago with criticism from U.S. Senators about the peer-to-peer payments service’s fraud rates. With the …
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19 September
EMVCo Sets Sights on a Car Charging POS Standard and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/19/25
Payments standards body EMVCo is working with CharIN, a standards developer for electric-vehicle charging systems, to introduce what the two organizations call a “seamless and secure payment experience” for electric-vehicle charging worldwide. Bolt Financial Inc., a checkout and payments technology provider, announced Bolt Activate, a program aimed at assisting startups in digital commerce …
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18 September
PayPal and Google Team Up on Agentic Commerce
PayPal Holdings Inc. and Google Inc. have partnered to leverage their artificial intelligence capabilities in an effort to create what they see as more personalized shopping and payment experiences across their platforms and devices for consumers and merchants. The deal, announced late Wednesday, will bring together the two companies’ “global …
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18 September
MoneyGram Looks to Stablecoins for Cross-Border Transfers
MoneyGram International Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a mobile app featuring a U.S. dollar-backed stored-value account that will work with stablecoins as well as fiat currencies. The move, which comes as interest in stablecoins heats up in the mainstream payments market, represents a sweeping update of the remittance company’s mobile technology and …
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18 September
Echelon Eyes New Market and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/18/25
Payments-technology developer Echelon Payments said it will expand into processing for non-profit organizations by working with Create.Payments, a payments provider specializing in that market. Nuvei Corp. said its partnership with Loop Global, an electric vehicle charging services company, now includes direct local acquiring capabilities for turnkey unattended EV charging terminals in Canada. Embedded-payments …
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17 September
Power up Holiday Sales with Factor4 Gift Cards
You may groan, and say, “summer’s not even over!” But now is the perfect time to get a jump on planning for the coming holidays. Adding gift cards to a business can make things very merry and bright for your merchants this season. It’s a great way to engage — …
