LevelUp announced 25 more restaurant companies as clients of its mobile-ordering and -payment app. These include national brands Smoothie King and Zaxby’s. ParTech Inc., a vendor of point-of-sale software to the restaurant and retail industries, launched PAR Pay, an EMV-capable processing solution for credit, debit, and stored-value cards. ParTech is …

The Dutch payments processor Adyen is considering an initial public offering in June that could value the company at between $7 billion and $11 billion, Reuters reported. Adyen, whose U.S. operation is based in San Francisco, recently won a contract to process transactions for eBay Inc., which will start moving …

Creating statements optimized for mobile devices is the biggest area of development for new digital payment options from billers, according to recent research done for payment technology provider ACI Worldwide Inc. The study by London-based technology researcher Ovum in December and January gathered responses from 1,032 executives in 10 countries …

Payments companies wondering how digital payments will evolve and what impact today’s younger consumers might have as they age may want to consider the role of apps, suggests the “Future of Money Study 2018” from Koski Research Inc. San Francisco-based Koski, in research that included 1,000 U.S. adults and a …

Mi9 Retail, a vendor of point-of-sale software, announced an integration that will allow merchants to process transactions through payments provider Adyen’s platform. Mi9 serves more than 450 retail businesses globally. Mastercard Inc. said Phillips 66 later this year will integrate Masterpass into the My Phillips 66 app, which will allow …

Merchant processor Fattmerchant said its payments services will be available for clients of eConduit, which provides cloud-based connectivity for point-of-sale terminals used with POS systems, through sales partners. Dallas Fort Worth International Airport has begun a program that allows users to select a parking space online and prepay for it …

New York’s comptroller, who oversees the state’s public pension funds, last week sent letters to the four general-purpose card networks, three of the nation’s biggest banks, and First Data Corp. and Worldpay Inc. asking them to assess whether gun sales should be considered restricted high-risk purchases, Bloomberg reported. New York’s letter comes …

Elavon, the merchant-acquiring subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, is expanding its Atlanta headquarters and adding 180 jobs over the next three years in its integrated-payments and e-commerce sectors, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported. In the first deployment of its peer-to-peer payment service outside the U.S., Square Inc. is rolling out its Cash app in the …

POS equipment maker Ingenico Group said KFC Corp., a unit of Yum! Brands Inc., migrated its U.S. payment system to Ingenico’s Telium semi-integrated POS service. Consumers now can make chip-and-sign, chip-and-PIN, magnetic-stripe, and contactless transactions at KFC locations. Online shopping-cart provider 3dcart said its upcoming version 8.1 will support Google …

Lately, the cryptocurrency craze has raised any number of questions, but probably the most pressing one for the payments business is whether any of these hundreds of tokens can ever succeed as an actual payment device. But while fluctuating trading values plague all of the digital currencies, one stands out …