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 …
Read More »Why Small Businesses Are Drawn to AI for Payments
Artificial intelligence emerged last year as a trending technology in payments, and now differences are starting to emerge in how businesses are viewing and deploying the technology, with small businesses showing the most enthusiasm, a new report from the big Atlanta-based processor Global Payments Inc. shows. In fact, some 94% …
Read More »Lightspeed Reorg Cuts 200 Employees and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/2/24
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 …
Read More »Flexa’s Crypto Plans and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/27/24
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 …
Read More »Eye on Point of Sale: PushX Hospitality Debuts; SurgePays Completes PAX Integration
Hospitality platform provider PushX Inc. will launch its new mobile-payments and offers platform with a bar crawl it says is designed to showcase the customer experience, how merchants can push offers, and how it could enable faster service. Chicago-based PushX says the hospitality platform, announced Tuesday, can help consumers discover …
Read More »Discover’s Next Merger Steps and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/26/24
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 …
Read More »Holiday Shoppers Are Expected to Spend More This Year As the Season Gets Set To Kick Off
Consumers will spend a record $650 per person during Black Friday-Cyber Monday shopping events, a 15% increase from last year, according to a study from Deloitte. During the Black Friday-Cyber Monday period, 56% of consumers say they plan to spend more than half their holiday shopping budgets, compared to 47% …
Read More »Eye on E-Commerce: DoorDash Launches In-App Gift Card Shopping; Noodles’ First E-Commerce Store
Delivery-services provider DoorDash is bringing in-app gift card shopping to its app. Launching Friday, the new service relies on gift card specialist InComm Payments. Announced Monday, the service creates a digital gift card mall in the app, Incomm says. Consumers will be able to order physical gift cards from participating …
Read More »Credit and Debit Travel Faves and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/25/24
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. …
Read More »Small Businesses Have Work to Do to Attract Shoppers, NMI Finds
While 78% of consumers say they are willing to pay more to shop at small merchants to help those businesses flourish, most plan to shop at large retailers as the holiday shopping season kicks off, a survey from payments processor NMI says. When the holiday shopping season officially kicks off …
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