Lightspeed Commerce announced it has added a data-analytics capability, Lightspeed Advanced Insights, to its Lightspeed Restaurant payments service.The French payments company Worldline announced it has closed on the sale of its Terminals, Solutions & Services unit to Apollo Funds. The 2.2-billion-euro deal, which includes the Ingenico line of point of sale devices, was announced in …

Some 79% of cybersecurity professionals globally said their organizations had been hit by ransomware within the last 12 months, according to a survey of 620 respondents conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group and commissioned by OwnBackup, a data protection platform.Payments provider Repay Holdings Corp. announced an integration with Flex, a provider of core system …

It may well be, but its effects are very much with us—and are lasting. Two years after it first struck, as the Covid-19 pandemic seemingly winds down, the payments industry is adapting to changes Covid coaxed into place that will stick around a lot longer than the virus that caused …

The world’s biggest card networks earlier this month reacted to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by closing their operations in Russia, and now some of the world’s biggest processors are beginning to report their exposure to those markets. For Paris-based Worldline S.A., it’s not trivial, but it’s not huge, either. …

Apple’s Tap to Pay has captured the industry’s attention. Now the question is how far it can get with it—and how rivals will react. Apple Inc. stirred up the point-of-sale industry last month with an announcement that it will introduce within a few months technology that will enable merchants to …

Buy now, pay later specialist Klarna AB said it is expanding the geographic reach of its rewards program and its Pay Now service. The rewards program will be available in nine countries, with Pay Now expanding to nine new countries beyond the current base in the U.S. and U.K., where the immediate-payment …

Apple Inc. rattled the payments industry on Tuesday with its announcement of technology that will let merchants accept card and Apple Pay transactions directly on an off-the-shelf iPhone with no attachments, but rivals say they’re taking the news in stride. “We’ll feel some impact, we’ll feel it a little bit, …

Software firm UST said it has worked with Kiosk Information Systems to introduce a touchless checkout platform that offers both voice and gesture-based interaction as well as a variety of payment flows, including QR codes, app wallets, contactless cards, and cash.Point-of-sale terminal maker Ingenico, a unit of Worldline, launched its Self-Modular POS, a …

Jack Dorsey, chief executive of both Square Inc. and Twitter Inc., is stepping down effective immediately as chief executive of social-media platform Twitter, Dorsey posted on Twitter. He will be succeeded by Twitter chief technology officer Parag Agrawal.E-commerce holiday shopping on the Monday following Thanksgiving—known as Cyber Monday—will increase 21% over the same day …

VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings, a special-purpose acquisition company, announced its shareholders approved VPC’s acquisition of Bakkt, thus taking the digital-asset marketplace public.Payments-technology provider Worldnet Payments said it is the first integrated payments platform to complete a Level III EMV and contactless certification of Ingenico’s Self Series of devices. Ingenico is a unit of Worldline S.A.Payments …