Transaction Processing

Lightspeed POS Inc. on Thursday acquired ShopKeep Inc., a payments and commerce provider, for $440 million in cash and stock. Under the terms of the deal, Lightspeed will pay $145.2 million in cash and issue 9.5 million subordinate voting shares. The deal is expected to close by Dec. 31. RBC …

Shift4 Payments Inc. on Thursday jumped into e-commerce payments processing with both feet with its acquisition of 3dcart, a 23-year-old web-store platform with some 14,000 clients globally. Terms were not announced. The deal diversifies Allentown, Pa.-based Shift4’s product mix but also buttresses its long-term strategy aimed at moving merchants from …

EVO Payments Inc. reported third-quarter revenue of $117 million, a 4.4% decrease from $122.4 million in the same period a year ago. Its profit, however, of $5.8 million reversed a $1.8 million loss last year. In the quarter, EVO launched EVO Direct Deposit, a real-time settlement service for merchants.The Covid-19 pandemic made …

Criminals are prepping to reap ill-gotten gains this holiday season, and one way they’re doing that is by bringing their organizational skills to return and refund schemes. That’s the word from Signifyd Inc., a fraud-prevention services provider. Return and refund fraud is one of three trends gaining prominence now, says …

October ended on a whimper for small-business payment volumes, but whether that’s because of a new surge in Covid-19 or due to seasonality is hard to tell, experts say. CardFlight Inc., which supplies point-of-sale technology for small businesses and has been tracking their sales since the Covid-19 pandemic set in …

Payments provider Gravity Payments said it is processing mobile transactions for IDS Service360, a new software product that integrates with a management system from Integrated Dealer Systems for RV, marine, and trailer dealers.Coro Global Inc., whose app allows users to make payments backed by physical gold, announced its Coro Corp. unit has …

MagTek Inc. released its DynaFlex platform. Announced Tuesday, the platform can serve as a countertop or mobile device, be mounted to a tablet, or affixed to a standalone kiosk.  Designed to work with multiple configurations, DynaFlex is compatible with Windows and Android devices. It can accept payment via magstripe, EMV …

Payment card manufacturer CPI Card Group Inc. said net sales of debit and credit cards grew 22% year-over-year to $62.7 million in the third quarter. Net sales of prepaid debit cards dipped 1% to $20.6 million. For the nine months through September, credit and debit card sales rose 19% to $180.9 million, …

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s top executives late Monday laid out what chief executive Dan Schulman called “a fundamental overhaul” of the company’s PayPal and Venmo apps that will include a new cryptocurrency feature as well as bill payment and QR code capability on top of near-field communication technology and PayPal’s Pay …

Spurred by consumers’ need to send money to family and friends during the Covid-19 pandemic and an increasing number of financial institutions being onboarded, the Zelle peer-to-peer payment network announced Monday it processed $84 billion in transactions during the third quarter of 2020, up 18% from the second quarter. Consumers …