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March, 2025

  • 20 March

    Beyond the Big Processors: What ISOs Really Need to Thrive

    By Matt Nern, Managing Partner at SignaPay Being an ISO is a balancing act. Between closing deals, staying on top of evolving payment technology, and ensuring merchants get the support they need, there’s hardly time to deal with the inefficiencies of a slow-moving processor. Yet, too often, ISOs find themselves …

  • 20 March

    Affirm Expands Credit Reporting And Adds Adyen U.K. Clients

    Installment-payments specialist Affirm Holdings Inc. will include all of its products in data sent to credit-reporting agency Experian plc beginning April 1, while its more than four-year-old partnership with processing platform Adyen NV expands into the United Kingdom. San Francisco-based Affirm says the inclusion of all of its buy now, …

  • 20 March

    Opponents Ask for Summary Judgement in Their Legal Battle to Overturn Illinois’s Interchange Law

    Plaintiffs seeking to overturn Illinois’s interchange law filed a motion for summary judgement earlier this week and requested that the state’s attorney general drop the case to enforce the law, which is scheduled to go into effect July 1. A motion for summary judgment asks a court to decide a …

  • 20 March

    Nayax’s EV Pay Boost and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/20/25

    Nayax Ltd. has launched what it calls its State-of-Charge feature for EV Kiosk, a service that lets users pay for EV charging while capturing session details separately on a mobile device by scanning a QR code. Klarna AB has agreed to offer payments options, in including pay in full and buy now, …

  • 19 March

    Grow Your Portfolio — Sign High-risk Merchants in New and Emerging Verticals

    Partnering with the right payment technology company to accept as many payment types as possible is a great way for small- to mid-sized merchants to modernize and grow their businesses. Unfortunately, due to the higher level of risk that comes with certain merchant categories, many small businesses have been left …

  • 19 March

    Eye on Acquiring: Jaris’s New White-Label Merchant Onboarding; Shift4’s Great Wolf Expansion

    Embedded financial services specialist Jaris Inc. has launched a merchant onboarding service for independent sales organizations, processors, banks, and platforms. The Jaris utility enables merchants to apply for payment processing services and a suite of value-added services, such as business lending, instant payouts and banking services, through a single, pre-populated …

  • 19 March

    Don’t Shun High-Risk Sellers—Manage Their Commerce Better, Experts Say

    For some processors, opportunity can abound among high-risk merchants shunned by acquirers that fear the potential losses. But losses can also abound if these relationships are not well-supervised, warned a panel of experts Tuesday afternoon. “There’s a balance between how much risk we’re going to take on and how to …

  • 19 March

    Fiserv’s Latest Acquisition and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/19/25

    Fiserv Inc. has acquired CCV, a payments provider operating in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, in a deal aimed at speeding the deployment of Fiserv’s Clover point-of-sale platform in Europe. Terms were not disclosed. Lightspeed Commerce Inc., a payments provider specializing in hospitality, launched an AI-based product that lets clients build …

  • 18 March

    Southwest Airlines Adopts CellPoint’s Newest Platform; TreviPay Is the Latest Issuer on the UATP Network

    CellPoint Digital announced early Tuesday Southwest Airlines Co. will begin using its cloud-native payment-orchestration platform. The platform, which launched last month, is designed for airlines and travel companies and supports multiple payment methods, including credit cards, travel credits, alternative payment methods, and Southwest Rapid Rewards frequent-flier points. Consumers can also …

  • 18 March

    DoorDash Enables Online SNAP/EBT Payments for Dollar General

    On-demand delivery platform DoorDash Inc. says Dollar General Corp. is the latest retailer to accept SNAP/EBT online payments in the DoorDash marketplace. SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that uses its own electronic benefits transfer payments service. The Dollar General addition of more than 16,000 stores nearly doubles the …

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