Transaction Processing

Worldline S.A.’s decision to enter negotiations to sell its Terminals, Solutions and Services unit to asset-management firm Apollo Global Management Inc. may allow the unit’s Ingenico brand to refresh its point-of-sale technology operation under the umbrella of a new owner and away from the short-term expectations of the public markets, …

Two years after it acquired the big point-of-sale technology company Ingenico S.A., the French processing giant Worldline S.A. has launched negotiations to sell the business to the asset-management firm Apollo Global Management Inc. The terms worked out so far, based on a binding offer from New York-based Apollo, call for …

Prelim, a San Francisco-based provider of digital-banking services for financial institutions, has partnered with Epos Now, a cloud-based provider of point-of-sale technology. The partnership is expected to enhance the digital experience for Epos Now’s customers and simplify onboarding to its platform. Norwich, England-based Epos Now, which services 51,000 retail and …

Agriculture marketplace ProducePay launched Quick-Pay+, which allows growers to receive the bulk of payments from buyers 24 hours after shipments are received.RevoluGroup Canada Inc., which offers the RevoluPay payments app, concluded an oversubscribed private placement of shares valued at $2.187 million Canadian ($1.7 million).A French fintech called Vagopass introduced a Web application that allows …

During the two years since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, point-of-sale technology for enterprise merchants in the United States has gone from being a low-growth channel for POS solution and hardware providers to one that now presents significant growth opportunities, according to a report from Moody’s Investor Service. Sparking the turnaround …

With a crucial card-acceptance market at stake, Amazon.com Inc. has reportedly struck a deal with Visa Inc. to continue taking Visa cards issued in the United Kingdom. The agreement comes nearly a month after Amazon dropped a threat to stop taking the cards and said it would negotiate with Visa. That …

Digital payments platform provider Buy It Mobility Networks Inc. is betting its new BuyPass application will further reduce the complexities around connecting to its platform for merchants that want to offer branded payment options that debit a consumer’s bank account. Launched Wednesday, the application drops a URL into a merchant’s …

Digital-currency payments specialist Circle Internet Financial LLC announced it has agreed to new terms with Concord Acquisition Corp., terminating an agreement it had reached with that company in July. The new agreement values Circle at $9 billion, twice the valuation set by the original SPAC combination. The holding company established by the original agreement …

As sports fans return to stadiums after nearly two years of the Covid pandemic, payment processors are eyeing a big opportunity for transaction volume. In the latest development, one of the biggest players in this game, Shift4 Payments Inc., said early Wednesday it has signed Audi Field in Washington, D.C., …

Responding to demand from consumers and billers for digital bill-payment options, electronic billing and payment platform provider PayNearMe Inc. on Tuesday announced the addition of PayPal and Venmo to its payment options. A recent study by PayNearMe revealed that 43% of respondents rated the convenience of using PayPal to pay …