Point-of-sale

February, 2026

• 16 February

  Japanese Fintech PayPay Looks to Enter the U.S. Via a Visa Partnership And an IPO

  

  Japanese fintech PayPay Corp. is preparing a push into the United States through a partnership with Visa Inc. and an initial public offering. Through Visa, PayPay will develop new payment options for its mobile wallet beyond QR codes to broaden its wallet appeal to U.S. consumers. PayPay specializes in QR …
• 16 February

  A Rapidly Growing Klarna Joins Google Pay in the U.K.

  

  Klarna AB announced early Monday its pay-over-time service has become an available payment option in Google Pay in the United Kingdom, joining a list of payment services already operating through the wallet. The move represents a major geographic expansion of previous actions by the two companies. Last year, Google Pay …
• 16 February

  Hoot Host’s Launch and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/16/26

  

  Hoot Host launched an expanded version of its software-with-a-service product for online businesses, including payments acceptance through PayPal, Square, and Stripe. The cryptocurrency exchange OKX, based in the Seychelles and with a regional headquarters in San Jose, Calif., received a Payment Institution license in Malta, a move that will allow the company …
• 13 February

  Fiserv Launches INDX for Real Time Settlement of Digital Assets in U.S. Dollars

  

  Fiserv Inc. has launched INDX, a real-time cash-settlement platform that enables digital-asset companies to store and transfer U.S. dollars at all hours and every day in real time. Digital-asset companies can use INDX to move dollars into a single custodial account insured up to $25 million by the Federal Deposit …
• 13 February

  How Chip Cards Have Been Deployed to Battle Fraud in State EBT Programs

  

  Chip cards are coming to state benefit programs, with the latest development emerging from Alabama. The state’s Department of Human Resources is mailing electronic benefit cards embedded with chips as a means to combat fraud, according to an announcement early Friday from the chip card supplier, Conduent Inc. The chip …
• 13 February

  Toast Payment Volume up 22% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/13/26

  

  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 …
• 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 …
• 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, …
• 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 …
• 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 …