News

December, 2025

• 31 December

  The North Year That Was

  

  The definitive 2025 recap of everything payments. As December fades to January, it’s time to look back at the past year’s big events. A lot happened. Kendrick kicked it at the Superbowl, Katy Perry got shot into space, skinny jeans brought back a Y2K fit, and a scrappy little bot …
• 31 December

  Routable Adds FedNow to Speed Accounts Payable

  

  [Aug. 15] Routable, a San Francisco-based accounts-payable platform provider, has expanded its support for real-time payments through connectivity to FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s 2-year-old real-time payments platform.  With the addition of FedNow, Routable says its customers have the ability to send instant payments to as many as 85% of bank …
• 31 December

  Gift Card Demand Is Poised to Increase This Holiday Season

  

  [Aug. 15] The percentage of consumers purchasing gift cards has gone up and is expected to increase yet more this year, finds a new report Bank of America Corp. commissioned from TSG, a payments advisory firm. The report found that 38% of respondents purchased a digital gift card in 2024, up …
• 30 December

  Stablecoin Giant Circle Launches Arc for Cross-Border Flows

  

  [Aug. 12] Stablecoin giant Circle Internet Group Inc. early Tuesday unveiled Arc, a new payments platform aimed at major money flows, including foreign exchange. The new service, part of the existing Circle Payments Network, will speed up foreign exchange while offering what the company calls “sub-second instant finality” in settlement, the …
• 30 December

  Affirm Partners With Stripe And Google Pay; Zip’s Chrome Autofill Integration

  

  [Aug. 13] Buy now, pay later platform Affirm Holdings Inc. has expanded its partnership with Stripe Inc. to make its BNPL services available to in-store shoppers through the Stripe terminal. Stripe, which has deployed more than a million terminals, is making Affirm available as a payment method to physical merchants in …
• 30 December

  Retailer Picks Stripe POS Terminals and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/30/25

  

  Currys, a United Kingdom-based technology retailer, formed a new partnership with Stripe Inc. that will see Stripe point-of-sale terminals installed in the merchant’s nearly 300 stores. The global credit card market is forecasted to grow in transaction value from $14.83 trillion in 2025 to $17.73 trillion in 2030, according to a report from Mordor …
• 29 December

  Eye on POS: ParTech’s 44% Revenue Bump; SoundHound AI’s Three-Fold Growth

  

  [Aug. 8] Separate efforts by Par Technology Corp. and SoundHound AI Inc. to boost their wins, especially among restaurant clients, appear to be paying off, if their latest earnings are indicators. ParTech, based in New Hartford, N.Y., is coming off its $132-million acquisition in January of Delaget LLC, a platform …
• 29 December

  Back to the Drawing Board on Debit Rates: Sorting Out Winners and Losers

  

  [Aug. 8] With merchants prevailing in their long-running legal battle to overturn debit rate caps set by the Federal Reserve, the largest debit card issuers could wind up the biggest losers, while Capital One Financial Corp. emerges as the big winner. U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota …
• 29 December

  So Long MetroCard, It’s Time for OMNY and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/29/25

  

  Dec. 31 will be the last day on which mass transit users can buy or refill a MetroCard for use on New York City’s subway system, as the card is being replaced by OMNY, a system that allows riders to tap a card or mobile device to pay a fare. MetroCard was introduced …
• 26 December

  Yeeld’s Online Surcharging Program Debuts

  

  [Aug. 13] Six months after issuing an API code to enable surcharging for online transactions, Chicago-based Yeeld released YeeldPay, its surcharging program for merchants. Yeeld says YeeldPay is a no-code payment page that provides merchants across the United States with a compliant surcharging program that, because it uses the Yeeld Surcharging …