ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf Inc. said two bank clients in Central Asia are the first to launch ATMs using Microsoft Windows 11. Block Inc.’s trio of payments platforms—Square, Afterpay, and Cash App—processed a record 144 million consumer transactions over the Black Friday through Cyber Monday period, up 17% from the same time …

Payments acceptance provider Evolv Inc. said it will acquire payments provider EnzoPay and rename it Evolv Mid-Atlantic. Terms were not disclosed. The Fiserv Small Business Index dropped two points to 144 in November from October. Year-over-year small business sales increased 4.8% and total transactions were up 9.1%. Month-over-month sales were down 1.6% and transactions …

Point-of-sale systems maker Lightspeed Commerce Inc. announced a reorganization that will “impact approximately 200” employees. The savings from the move will be “redeployed” to other, unspecified areas of the company, Lightspeed said. Processor Priority Technology Holdings Inc. has filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The move will allow the …

Digital-payments platform Flexa is working with Electric Coin Co., to integrate Flexa technology into Electric Coin’s Zcash wallet in an effort to ease the use of digital currencies at U.S. retail locations that use Flexa technology. Licel Corp. said its Virtual Trusted Execution Environment (vTEE) has been approved by the standards body EMVCo …

Discover Financial Services said it will file restatements of “certain prior period financial statements” and will “as soon as practicable” after that conduct a special stockholder meeting to vote on the company’s proposed merger with Capital One Corp. The proposed merger was announced early this year. Vault, a Canada-based financial platform, has initiated …

Some 79% of airline passengers globally use debit and credit cards for all or most airline travel, but digital wallets and instant payments are gaining ground, according to “Online Airline Booking Insights 2024,” a report from ResearchAndMarkets.com. Some 72% of passengers book most of their trips online. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. …

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service, part of the U.S. Treasury Department, has appointed the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. to manage the bureau’s Direct Express prepaid debit card program under a five-year agreement, starting Jan. 3. Fraud-prevention platforms Bectran Inc. and Giact Systems LLC are partnering to offer companies services …

The Federal Trade Commission said its Negative Option rule, also known as click to cancel, goes into effect Jan. 14, and regulated entities must be compliant by May 14. The measure obliges entities that offer subscription services to make unenrollment as easy as the enrollment process. Airline and travel payments specialist CellPoint Digital raised $30 …

Fiserv Inc. and ADP have agreed to offer as a package Fiserv technologies such as Clover and CashFlow Central and ADP services for payroll and human resources. The offering is expected to be available early next year. Gift card specialist Raise said it expanded into Canada following last month’s launch in the United …

Debit cards not using prepaid funds accounted for 58% of U.S. card spending in 2022, the Atlanta Fed noted in a review of a Federal Reserve Payments Study released last week. Credit cards were used for 36% of payments and 6% of payments were made with prepaid debit cards. Cantaloupe Inc. will serve as …