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 …

The Fed will debut FedNow next year. It will face a highly complex—and surprisingly competitive—market for the instant transfer of value. In the near future, most people will be able to exchange money instantly anywhere, any time. A patchwork of competing and collaborating national and multinational instant-payment systems with very …

Here’s why payments providers can no longer afford to ignore or misunderstand cloud technology. Cloud is a key factor in the expected growth of the digital-payment gateway market to $416 billion by 2024. Non-bank players, from big tech to e-commerce giants to fintech startups, are leveraging the fearsome capabilities of …

While the Federal Reserve mulls the concept of a national digital dollar, private-sector actors are working toward the same end. The Digital Dollar Project at the end of August launched what it calls a Technical Sandbox Program in an effort, it said, to help advance understanding of the technical requirements …

The key to reducing merchant attrition is as simple, and as complicated, as making a good first impression. The right tech helps, too. One tactic that may help keep merchant attrition rates in check—especially when large and small businesses have even more choices for their credit and debit card processing …

Angelpaw, which provides software to track pet cremation and aquamation, launched a buy now, pay later service for these services. Interest-free installment payments are made over 60 days and the provider receive funds immediately.Payroc WorldAccess LLC said its Worldnet platform is now enabled on the PAX A920 point-of-sale device as the …

In response to consumers’ growing concerns over the security and management of their personal data by businesses with which they interact, ATB Ventures on Thursday introduced its Oliu platform, a set of identity products aimed at helping businesses safely manage and verify the credentials of consumers they interact with digitally. …

As consumers look to improve their education and gain new skills, many are turning to buy now, pay later services to finance these efforts. On Wednesday, the Atlanta-based BNPL provider Splitit USA Inc. said its merchant sales volume in digital education and professional development ballooned 350% from 2019 to 2022. …

The Wall Street Journal reported that Republican attorneys general for 23 states have warned American Express Co., Mastercard Inc., and Visa Inc. to stop their effort to create a merchant code for gun stores, alleging the effort could result in a mishandling of consumer data and would fail in its purpose of preventing gun …

NCR Corp.’s board approved a plan to split the company into two publicly traded entities, one concentrating on digital commerce and the other on ATMs. The move is expected to take place at the end of next year.Warehouse-store chain BJ’s Wholesale Club said it will accept SNAP EBT payments across all of its …