CannaTrac Technology Inc., a cashless payment provider to the cannabis industry under the CannaCard brand, announced a letter of intent with an unnamed cannabidiol distributor to create an online-payment service using the CannaCard platform. CannaTrac said the distributor’s clients currently generate $80 million in annual revenue and will use CannaCard …

Repay Holdings Inc. announced the acquisition of TriSource Solutions for up to $65 million. TriSource, founded in 2007, provides back-end transaction-processing services to independent sales organizations. TriSource has been Repay’s primary third-party processor for back-end settlement since 2012.The U.S. District Court in Cleveland approved a $4.3 million settlement of a class action filed …

Target Corp. was hit by two point-of-sale glitches this past weekend. On Sunday afternoon the retailer was unable to process certain card transactions at some of its 1,800 stores for about 90 minutes due to an issue at a data center of its payment-services vendor, NCR Corp., Reuters reported. Sunday’s …

Groupon announced it will provide GasBuddy, a fuel-price reporting service, with food and drink offers from local merchants via card linking. Consumers will be able to load offers directly to an eligible payment card after completing an opt-in enrollment in the GasBuddy app. POSaBIT, a fintech supplier to the legal …

Payments provider Nuvei announced it will buy SafeCharge International Group Ltd. for approximately $889 million. SafeCharge’s payment platform provides services ranging from card acquiring and issuing to processing and checkout. This confirms reports of a pending deal. Processor Payment Data Systems Inc. said Dealer Pay LLC, provider of a payments …

i3 Verticals Inc. completed its $24 million acquisition of Northeast Texas Data LLC and Graves Humphries Stahl LLC, collectively known as Net Data, which provides software services, including payment acceptance, to municipalities and local government agencies primarily in Texas. Millersville University adopted the ACI student payment portal from ACI Worldwide …

Cardtronics plc completed the integration of FIS Cardless Cash into 11,000 ATMs and expects to add 8,000 machines over the next several months. Cardtronics and Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) announced the integration in 2017. Online lending platform OnDeck said it will begin funding small-business clients with same-day credits …

Square Inc. said concession sellers at the Washington Nationals’ ballpark will be equipped with the Square Terminal device to process fans’ food-and-drink orders in their seats. Fans will also be able to use Square’s Caviar app to order food from concession stands. The Major League Baseball season starts Thursday. The …

CannaTrac, a cashless mobile-payment service for the cannabis industry, released an application programming interface for point-of-sale software developers. JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon told investors the bank’s JPM Coin, a blockchain-based token now in test for intrabank corporate payments, one day could be offered to consumers, Bloomberg reported. …

JPMorgan Chase & Co. will within a few months begin testing its own cryptocurrency for wholesale payments between corporations and banks globally, according to CNBC. The new token, called JPM Coin, will be exchangeable at the rate of $1 each. The development may surprise some observers, given the harsh criticism …