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Providers of restaurant point-of-sale and management technology continue to enhance their offerings as restaurants remain one of the hottest markets in digital payments. Par Technology Corp. announced its POS Spring Release early Tuesday, aimed at helping restaurants improve customer convenience and streamline operating costs. Key features include support for contactless …

PayPal Holdings Inc. said it will work with TerraPay to let PayPal users make real-time money transfers throughout the Middle East and Africa. Cantaloupe Inc., a payments provider for self-service markets and vending, launched Go Micro, a compact kiosk for micro markets that features an integrated barcode scanner and 5-inch touchscreen. …

Toast Inc. has signed an agreement with the restaurant-chain operator Dine Brands Global to install its point-of-sale and restaurant-management technology in 1,500 Applebee’s locations nationwide. In addition to Applebee’s Dine Brands operates such restaurant chains as IHOP, Neighborhood Grill + Bar, and Fuzzy’s Taco Shop. Applebee’s will install Toast’s POS terminals, …

U.S. Bank is stepping up its efforts to entice merchants to use its business checking account with the ability to accept credit and debit card payments. Announced Monday, the U.S. Bank Business Essentials account enables merchants to accept card payments and be eligible for free same-day access to their funds …

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has added support for pound-denominated accounts to its Kinexys Digital Payments system, which processes blockchain transactions for commercial accounts, Bloomberg reported. Up to now, accounts have been denominated mostly in dollars. Kinexys was launched in 2019 as JPM Coin. Theya Inc., a Bitcoin self-custody platform, launched Theya for Business, …

PayPal Holdings Inc. said will release a second wave of advertisements with actor Will Ferrell to promote its checkout services, PayPal Pay Later, its buy now, pay later service, and a sweepstakes that will cover, for 1,000 winners for 100 days, up to $100 of their transactions made with PayPal. PayPal launched the …

Canadian payments provider Helcim Inc. is bringing next-business-day funding of digital payment receipts to small and medium businesses in the United States and Canada free of charge. The service, called Faster Deposits, will significantly speed up merchant access to digital payment receipts by days, the processor says. Most deposits take …

Shopify Inc. said merchants in Canada with what the company calls “early access” can now offer to customers the Shop Pay Installments payments plan, managed by the buy now, pay later platform Affirm Inc. The move expands the plan’s availability beyond the U.S. market. General availability for Shopify merchants is expected this summer …

With a renewed emphasis on retail merchants, Lightspeed Commerce Inc. is launching a tool to help retailers data and inventory forecasting. In related news, point-of-sale terminal maker Ingenico says its SoftPOS software development kit achieved a PCI Security Standards Council certification. Montreal-based Lightspeed announced the its four-part plan to boost …

CelllPoint Digital, a specialist in payments orchestration, will expand the payment methods available through SabreSonic and Radixx, services offered by Sabre Corp. a travel-technology company. U.S. payments platform Spreedly Inc. said it will work with Ebanx, a payment-service provider, to support alternative payment methods for international firms operating in Latin America. Payments …