Point-of-sale

April, 2025

• 9 April

  How Helcim Is Accelerating Merchant Funding

  

  Canadian payments provider Helcim Inc. is bringing next-business-day funding of digital payment receipts to small and medium businesses in the United States and Canada free of charge. The service, called Faster Deposits, will significantly speed up merchant access to digital payment receipts by days, the processor says. Most deposits take …
• 9 April

  Shopify’s Next Step with Affirm and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/9/25

  

  Shopify Inc. said merchants in Canada with what the company calls “early access” can now offer to customers the Shop Pay Installments payments plan, managed by the buy now, pay later platform Affirm Inc. The move expands the plan’s availability beyond the U.S. market. General availability for Shopify merchants is expected this summer …
• 8 April

  Sezzle’s MoneyIQ Financial Education Program Is a Hit with Consumers

  

  Buy now, pay later provider Sezzle Inc. announced early Monday that users of its MoneyIQ financial-education program are completing an average of 11 modules and have collectively earned more than 5 million experience-rewards points. MoneyIQ, which Sezzle launched with Zogo in January, is a financial-education tool within the Sezzle mobile …
• 8 April

  Lightspeed’s Retail Forecasting Tool; Ingenico’s SoftPOS Certification

  

  With a renewed emphasis on retail merchants, Lightspeed Commerce Inc. is launching a tool to help retailers data and inventory forecasting. In related news, point-of-sale terminal maker Ingenico says its SoftPOS software development kit achieved a PCI Security Standards Council certification. Montreal-based Lightspeed announced the its four-part plan to boost …
• 8 April

  CellPoint Digital’s Sabre Expansion and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/8/25

  

  CelllPoint Digital, a specialist in payments orchestration, will expand the payment methods available through SabreSonic and Radixx, services offered by Sabre Corp. a travel-technology company. U.S. payments platform Spreedly Inc. said it will work with Ebanx, a payment-service provider, to support alternative payment methods for international firms operating in Latin America. Payments …
• 7 April

  Forter Unveils a New Routing And Fraud-Fighting Enhancement for Its Platform

  

  Forter, a provider of identity-intelligence technology, announced early Monday several enhancements to its Payment Optimization technology aimed at increasing authorization rates and detecting account-takeover attempts. Forter is testing what it calls a predictive-payment routing app that recommends when and how to use payment authentication, as well as the best processor …
• 4 April

  Stripe, Adyen, and Toast Gain Among Top Acquirers, TSG Finds

  

  While the top 10 roster of the largest merchant acquirers in the TSG Directory of U.S. Merchant Acquirers shows little variation from last year—JPMorgan Chase & Co. is still No. 1 at $2.61 trillion in volume in 2024—smaller players are moving into the upper ranks. Adyen NV, a Netherlands-based processor …
• 4 April

  CapOne, Discover Deal May Have Justice OK and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/4/25

  

  The Department of Justice approved Capital One Financial Corp.’s $35-billion proposal to acquire Discover Financial Services, noting it does not see strong enough competition concerns to scrub the deal, which was first proposed by the two parties in February last year. PointsKash Inc. said it has concluded an agreement with Discover Network to issue …
• 3 April

  The Cost of Fraud Continues to Rise for Merchants, LexisNexis Finds

  

  Fraud costs merchants in the United States $4.61 for every $1 of fraud incurred, up 32% from $3.16 in 2022, according to LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ annual True Cost of Fraud Study. In Canada, fraud costs merchants $4.52 for every $1 of fraud incurred.  Driving the increase is that criminals are …
• 3 April

  Visa Rethinks Authorize.net And Adds Unified Checkout, Fraud Protection Service

  

  Visa Inc. will launch an updated Authorize.net, in what it calls a “reimagining” of the venerable gateway. Announced Thursday, the updated version will be available in the second quarter in the United States and in other markets later this year. Visa’s announcement was one of three it made, including a …