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April, 2026

• 9 April

  Embedding payments for growth: how ISVs can scale through vertical focus and partnerships

  

  Josh Bennett, Vice President of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank | Elavon Embedded finance, embedded commerce, and integrated payments are different names for the same shift: integrating payments and financial services into your platform to deliver more value to customers and unlock recurring revenue streams. As Independent Software Vendors …

May, 2025

• 1 May

  Payments as a growth strategy – how ISVs can optimize revenue potential with embedded finance

  

  Steven Velasquez, Senior Vice President and Head of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank | Elavon As the worlds of technology and financial services converge, the pace of innovation is increasing exponentially. The advent of AI, cloud-based, headless architecture, and ‘everything-as-a-service’ presents a challenge to ISVs looking to adapt to …

November, 2024

• 18 November

  Lightspeed Rolls Out a Kitchen Display System; Fortis Adds a Voice Ordering Platform

  

  Lightspeed Commerce Inc. has introduced a new kitchen display system it says will help restaurants address operational challenges, reduce operating costs, improve order accuracy, and enhance customer satisfaction. A key feature of the new kitchen display system (KDS), which can be integrated with Lightspeed’s  point-of-sale platform, is the ability to …

October, 2024

• 2 October

  Eye on E-Commerce: Paze at 125 Million Cards; Klarna Becomes an Apple Reseller

  

  Paze, the online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, says more than 125 million credit and debit cards are now available to use with the e-commerce checkout tool as the service taps a new general manager. Also, buy now, pay later specialist Klarna AB has become an Apple Inc. …

June, 2024

• 10 June

  Mastercard’s AI-Powered Shopping Muse Has Been Deployed by Michael Kors

  

  Retailer Michael Kors is getting into the artificial intelligence-powered shopping recommendation business with the adoption of Shopping Muse, a recommendation engine from a Mastercard Inc. company. Developed by Dynamic Yield, a data-personalization platform Mastercard acquired from McDonald’s Corp. in 2022, Shopping Muse employs artificial intelligence to make recommendations and further …

January, 2024

• 8 January

  Garmin Pay in New Garmin Watch And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/8/24

  

  Garmin International Inc. launched its Lily 2 series of smart watches, which include the company’s Garmin Pay contactless-payments technology. The Chinese technology and payments giant Ant Group, parent of Alipay, is closing in on an acquisition of MultiSafepay, a Netherlands-based payments platform, for about $200 million, Reuters reported. Alipay is the operator of the Alipay+ …

December, 2023

• 8 December

  Block’s New Bitcoin Wallet And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/8/23

  

  Block Inc., the parent of Square and Cash App, launched Bitkey, a self-custody Bitcoin wallet, in nearly 100 countries around the world. Block is taking pre-orders for the wallet, which consists of a mobile app, a hardware device, and a set of recovery tools, at $150 each. Crypto technology provider Onez launched …

September, 2023

• 24 September

  How ISVs are Adapting to Rapid Market Shifts

  

  By Tom Byrnes, SVP, Marketing, PayiQ The current ISV market is growing exponentially and is expected to show a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.1% from 2022 – 2030. This growing scope of opportunity has attracted new players into the market. According to recent research by the Retail Solutions …

July, 2023

• 25 July

  Visa’s CEO Delicately Fields Questions About the Company’s Merchant Relations

  

  Visa Inc.’s top brass, during the company’s quarterly earnings conference call Tuesday afternoon, preferred to talk about fast-growing newer lines of business such as value-added services and transaction sources apart from traditional plastic credit and debit cards. But stock analysts on the call had questions about some sensitive merchant-relations issues, …
• 14 July

  Olo Adds Kiosk Payments And Other Features for Restaurants

  

  Olo Inc., a software-as-a-service platform provider for restaurants, rolled out several enhancements, including the ability for customers to place orders and pay for them using the Olo Pay application at in-restaurant kiosks. Enabling in-restaurant payments at kiosks marks the first availability of card-present payment processing through Olo Pay. Olo developed …