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Restaurant point-of-sale specialist Toast Inc. announced its December-quarter gross payment volume grew 22% year-on-year to $51.4 billion, while total locations reached 164,000, up 22%, and net income totaled $101 million, more than triple the sum a year earlier. For the full year, GPV totaled $195.1 billion, up 23%, while net income swelled …
February, 2026
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12 February
Pavilion To Acquire DiTRONICS and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/12/26
Gaming-transactions specialist Pavilion Payments said it has agreed to acquire payments and automation contracts, along with technology assets, from DiTRONICS Financial Services, a funds-access platform serving casinos. Terms were not announced. Knot, an app linking consumers, merchants, and financial institutions, said it will work with Fiserv Inc. to enable Lyft drivers to more easily …
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11 February
Illinois Merchants Score a Big Win in Their Battle for Interchange Relief
Illinois merchants scored a big victory late Tuesday in their battle for interchange relief as United States District Court Judge Virginia Kendall upheld the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. The decision, which comes after more than a year of legal wrangling, means the IFPA will go into effect July 1, …
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11 February
Adyen’s Personalize Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/11/26
Adyen NV announced Personalize, a tool that lets businesses modify checkout pages in real time in response to shopper preferences. The new service is related to Adyen Uplift, a routing capability launched last year and aimed at increasing conversion rates. Lut, a cannabis-payments specialist, said it will work with Frankenmuth Credit …
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10 February
Toast Links Dining to Instacart’s Marketplace; Ingenico Launches Its 360 Platform Plus AXIUM Terminals
Toast Inc. announced early Tuesday it is partnering with online grocery-delivery and-pickup service Instacart to connect restaurants to the Instacart Marketplace, an aggregator of food and beverage suppliers. The move will enable food-and-beverage retailers on the Toast platform to align their product catalog with in-store stock and provide restaurants with …
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10 February
Fiserv Caps a Sub-Par Year With a Disappointing Fourth Quarter
Fiserv’s chief executive early Tuesday told Wall Street not to look for immediate improvement following a sub-par year in 2025. “Our headline results are below our expectations and will remain that way until mid-year,” chief executive Michael Lyons told equity analysts at the top of a group call with equity …
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10 February
SquareAI Enters the U.K. and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/10/26
Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit announced the launch of SquareAI in the United Kingdom. The technology, which Square says is free to merchants, offers conversational AI intended to help business owners interpret their data and arrive at decisions faster. Payments provider Blue Payment Agency Inc. expanded its focus to help e-commerce sites, especially those …
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9 February
Uber Deepens Adyen Ties and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/9/26
The ride-sharing service Uber will expand its use of payments services from Adyen NV to cover more geographies and will make use of Adyen’s Checkout API product for a wider choice of payment methods, the companies announced. Honor Capital said it is working with ePayPolicy to offer financing when insured customers are making premium …
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6 February
A New POS Terminal Emerges While Tap To Pay Figures in a New App
The Mexico-based payments company Clip announced the launch of its latest point-of-sale terminal, the Clip Total 3. And technology provider SeoSamba launched Point-of-Sale, an app that incorporates programming from Stripe Inc. and enables iOS and Android tap-to-pay transactions on smart phones or tablets with wireless links to printers and card …
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6 February
Embedded Payments Shift From Add-On Status to Basic Infrastructure
Embedded payments have moved decisively beyond their early role as a bolt-on feature for software platforms and are now foundational to how merchants operate, according to panelists who spoke Thursday at the Northeast Acquirers Association conference in Boston. Once viewed as optional, embedded payments are increasingly expected to function as …
