The big French processor Worldline SA announced early Friday longtime chief executive Gilles Grapinet will leave the company effective Sept. 30. The company says the search for a successor will evaluate candidates both inside and outside the company. In the meantime, the board has appointed Marc-Henri Desportes, deputy CEO since …

Lightspeed Commerce, a specialist in hospitality payments, launched Retail Insights, a data service for merchants. Shift4 Payments Inc. announced it will process all ticket sales and foodservice payments at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, the arena for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association. U.S.-based fintech software firm OMNIQ Corp. said …

Payments platform provider Payroc WorldAccess LLC has agreed to work with processor Moneris Solutions Corp. to provide card-present payments in Canada. The partnership with Toronto-based Moneris enables Tinley Park, Ill.-based Payroc to provide independent software vendors and small and medium businesses with a single platform for processing card-present transactions in …

U.S.-based digital banking and payments platform i2c Inc. said it will work with Beyon Money Business, a banking-technology provider, to launch a corporate expense card program for small and mid-size companies, first in Bahrain and later more widely. Ackroo Inc., a point-of-sale technology provider and gift card platform, announced revenue for the …

Wireless and cybersecurity developer Berkeley Varitronics Systems Inc. launched Skim Swipe, a tool that can help detect card skimmers hidden in point-of-sale terminals. Galileo Financial Technologies, a payments-technology platform, announced it is offering wire-transfer capability via an application programming interface that links clients of Community Federal Savings Bank to the Federal Reserve’s …

The U.S. Faster Payments Council released its “Faster Payments and Financial Inclusion” survey report that found that 35% of respondents did not have a faster payments integration but planned to do so. The survey canvassed 88 organizations. Technology firm EvonSys Inc. launched its Evonsys Payments Platform for cross-border transfers. The new service integrates capabilities …

Wide-ranging disruptions in microchip supply slammed the payments industry hard from 2020 to 2022. Now, are terminal makers better prepared? Back in 2020 and 2021, terminal makers were scrambling to get their hands on the microchips they needed to power their devices. Lead times on orders had stretched to 18 …

Digital Transactions celebrates its 20th birthday with a review of the 10 major themes that continue to preoccupy the industry. When publishers start a magazine, whether in print or online—or both—there’s simply no way to tell how long it will last. There are too many unpredictable factors. But the publishers …

Payments-platform provider Payroc LLC has launched PayByCloud, low-code, semi-integrated technology for independent software vendors that establishes a cloud-based connection between Payroc’s application hosted on a payment device and the Payroc gateway.  PayByCloud is intended to eliminate the friction of connecting software to payment devices in the cloud, without the need …

Cantaloupe Inc., which specializes in payments technology for vending machines and self-service marketplaces, holds a commanding 15.5% share of the world’s 5.8 million vending machines connected to payments technology, according to a report from research firm Research and Markets. In total, Malvern, Pa.-based Cantaloupe links to more than 900,000 vending …