Point-of-sale

January, 2026

• 6 January

  SBT Nabs TPP and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/6/26

  

  Solutions by Text LLC announced its acquisition of payments platform Triple Play Pay. Solutions by Text said the deal will help its compliance efforts, create a faster merchant onboarding experience, improve security and controls, and make more application programming interface codes available to merchants. Terms were not disclosed. Point-of-sale technology supplier Signature …
• 5 January

  Digital Transactions 2025 Top 10 Countdown

  

  A recap of the top 10 posts on DigitalTransactions.net in 2025. #1 Eye on AI: Worldpay Adds AI Safeguards; Pushpay’s Approach to AI [Aug. 14] As artificial intelligence use builds in the commercial world, its manifestations in consumer-facing payments applications continue to emerge. The latest developments include processor Worldpay using Trulioo’s …
• 5 January

  Nayax And Autel Get Set to Embed Payments in 100,000 EV Chargers

  

  Nayax Ltd., a fintech that among other services provides payments-acceptance technology for electric-vehicle chargers and other self-service scenarios, on Monday expanded its footprint in EV charging Monday through a partnership with Autel Energy, a provider of EV chargers. The deal calls for Nayax to embed its payment technology into an …
• 5 January

  Fiserv’s December Index Notes a Modest Increase in Small Business Sales

  

  Days after the end of the 2025 holiday shopping season, Fiserv Inc. notes modest gains in its monthly Small Business Index, with a one-point increase to 144 in December from November. Fiserv notes consumers shopping at small businesses tended to focus on the essentials and selective discretionary spending. That slight …
• 2 January

  Eye on AI: Worldpay Adds AI Safeguards; Pushpay’s Approach to AI

  

  [Aug. 14] As artificial intelligence use builds in the commercial world, its manifestations in consumer-facing payments applications continue to emerge. The latest developments include processor Worldpay using Trulioo’s identity technology for AI-enabled measures in agentic commerce and Pushpay’s introduction of AI tools for ministry leaders. Worldpay, which is expected to be …
• 2 January

  Customer Satisfaction And Card Usage Drop When Sellers Levy Credit Card Surcharges, Says J.D. Power

  

  [Aug. 14] Credit card usage and cardholder satisfaction decline when merchants levy a surcharge to offset their card-acceptance costs, J.D. Power’s 2025 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction study finds. When consumers are levied a surcharge, satisfaction scores drop 39 points to 602 on a 1,000-point scale, compared to consumers that have not …

December, 2025

• 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 …
• 31 December

  Court Rules CFPB Funding Must Continue and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/31/26

  

  A federal court ruled that the Trump administration cannot let its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau lapse, the Associated Press reported. The White House has contested how the CFPB is funded, but the judge said its argument about how the bureau “gets its funds is not valid,” the AP said. …
• 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 …