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As bakery chain Paris Baguette refreshes its rewards program and its mobile app, its online-ordering process has also been updated with help from Olo Inc. In related news, Elo Touch Solutions Inc. releases a 22-inch contactless payment-enabled device. Moonachie, N.J.-based Paris Baguette, which has 160 U.S. locations, according to its …

There’s more than pricing and revenue agreements that’s necessary to the working relationships between independent software vendors and the value-added resellers. Understanding this is important as the ISV segment gains ground as a payments channel, experts say. It starts with communication, says Gary Liu, chief financial officer of Bold Integrated …

Aurora Payments, a payments-technology developer, said it has worked with payments-hardware firm Sunmi and software developer Proxet to introduce a new line of point-of-sale terminals they say is designed for small businesses. The Western Union Co. reported processing 73.3 consumer-money transactions in the second quarter, up 3.8% year-over-year, while revenue in the segment …

Of the now 900 financial institutions on the FedNow real-time payments network, 78% of them are community banks and credit unions, the Federal Reserve says. The 900 figure, found in updated data released on the FedNow Web site, comes as the instant payment service marks its first year of service. …

July 20 marks the one-year anniversary of the debut of FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s real-time payment service. It also marks the anniversary of the payments industry letting its breath out in anticipation of the launch. Since then, both FedNow and its fellow faster payments providers have all benefited from the …

At more than $16 billion, revenue for American Express Co. hit an all-time high in the company’s June quarter, and now the travel-and-entertainment card giant is looking to ramp up marketing—radically. The company’s top brass said early Friday AmEx will pour $6 billion this year into selling consumers and businesses …

U.S. Bancorp generated $454 million in merchant processing services revenue in the second quarter, up 4.1% from $436 million in the year-ago quarter. Private-label card specialist Synchrony Financial posted $3.7 billion in second-quarter revenue, up 12.1% from $3.3 billion in the 2023 second quarter. Net income of $643 million increased 13% from $569 …

A survey from credit-reporting agency TransUnion indicates 89% of U.S. consumers who have used buy now, pay later programs are satisfied or very satisfied with the service. The survey canvassed 1,200 consumers in the second quarter. Some 53% of non-users indicated they’d be likely or very likely to use BNPL if the …

With more than 40 locations across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, CC’s Coffee House looked to provide its customers with what it saw as a more personalized ordering and loyalty service. It enlisted Paytronix Systems Inc. to support the launch of the CC’s Coffee House app, which incorporates ordering, loyalty, and …

Wireless and cybersecurity developer Berkeley Varitronics Systems Inc. launched Skim Swipe, a tool that can help detect card skimmers hidden in point-of-sale terminals. Galileo Financial Technologies, a payments-technology platform, announced it is offering wire-transfer capability via an application programming interface that links clients of Community Federal Savings Bank to the Federal Reserve’s …