Adobe Analytics: Online Holiday Sales Hit A Record High In 2024
Consumers spent a record $241.4 billion online from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, 2024, an 8.7% increase from the same ...
Eye on Point of Sale: Elo’s New Display; FreedomPay’s Verifone Partnership; Blaze’s Sage Integration
Point-of-sale systems makers are already putting 2025 to work, with multiple announcements from vendors. First, Elo Touch Solutions Inc. launched ...
X9 Issues QR Code Standard and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/7/25
The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. has published a standard, "QR Code Protection Using Cryptographic Solutions, X9.148," laying out how to ...
Affinity FCU Partners With a Payments Fintech to Boost Financial Literacy
Affinity Federal Credit Union is working with fintech Greenlight Financial Technology Inc. to launch a financial-literacy program. The program will ...
Services and Retail Consumer Spending Boost Fiserv’s Small Business Index
Small-business sales were up 4.9% year-over-year in December as consumers maintained strong retail spending while diverting more to service-based businesses, ...
PayPal Faces Discrimination Lawsuit and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/6/25
An Asian-American businesswoman named Nisha Desai has sued PayPal Holdings Inc. on grounds of racial discrimination, alleging the company restricted some of ...
The IRS Rings in 2025 With New Reporting Requirements for P2P Networks
The Internal Revenue Service will begin requiring peer-to-peer payment apps in 2025 to issue 1099-K statements to self-employed workers who ...
The Payments Industry Works to Solve for X
The payments industry is heading into the new year with a significant question mark hanging over its head: What does ...