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 …

Amazon’s tech-laden Go stores are disrupting in-store checkout. But as other merchants look to follow suit, it’s becoming clear there are lots of ways to get the checkout to check out. Consumers so loathe waiting in line at checkout  that half of all shoppers avoid entering stores with long lines, …

Merchants will be able to choose merchant services from T-Mobile US Inc. now that the wireless carrier has launched GoPoint, a new product that includes one-price processing and mobile card readers. With processing provided by Total System Services Inc. (TSYS), GoPoint is aimed at small and medium-size businesses. The service …

Merchant acquirer EVO Payments Inc. processed 821.6 million transactions in 2018’s fourth quarter, up 16% from 705.5 million a year earlier. European transactions grew 22% to 575.1 million while North American transactions rose 5% to 246.5 million. Fourth-quarter revenues increased 9% year-over-year to $150.8 million; the company posted a net …

Payments provider ACI Worldwide launched new, cloud-based in-store technologies for merchant clients as part of the company’s UP Merchant Payments product. The new services are based on ACI’s recent acquisitions of payments-technology firms RevChip and TranSend. Maverick BankCard said its automated clearing house platform is now available. The e-check service …

So-called smart devices are invading the point of sale at an increasing pace. They bring undoubted advantages, but also a few complications. Judging by the number of times Fiserv Inc. chief executive Jeffery Yabuki and First Data Corp. CEO Frank Bisignano mentioned Clover last month during their joint announcement of …

The European Commission, the European Union’s antitrust regulator, fined Mastercard Inc. €570.6 million ($648.2 million) for restricting merchants’ ability to sign with an acquirer in another EU single-market country with interchange rates lower than rates in the merchant’s home country before December 2015, when regulations capped EU interchange. The Commission …

Kabbage Inc., an online small-business financier, said it provides the Pay Later program for U.S. small-business buyers on Alibaba.com, an online marketplace. Payment-terminal maker Equinox Payments and payments-software provider Acceo Tender Retail announced the Equinox Luxe 8500i and Luxe 6200m terminals have achieved EMV end-to-end certification on First Data Corp.’s …

Cloud connectivity, apps, and features beyond payments are shaping the next evolution of the point-of-sale terminal. With all the discussion surrounding merchant adoption of point-of-sale systems and integrated payments, one might think the days of the conventional POS terminal are numbered. Their days as an isolated piece of equipment with …

Poynt Co., a startup supplier of intelligent payment devices, argues so-called smart terminals should have a common operating system like smart phones do. And in announcing a $100 million funding round on Tuesday, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company also argued it should be the one to provide that OS. Investors …