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Area of Interest: Merchant Acquiring

Patents for Vehicle Data and Two-Way Payments

Aiden Auto provides an embedded software platform that securely facilitates sharing vehicle data with third parties. The platform interfaces directly with the vehicle. Other technology providers utilize telematics hardware and aftermarket dongles to accomplish data sharing. The company recently secured three patents that cover vehicle-based payments, in-vehicle consent and data sharing in the United States […]

S2M Card Processing

Digital processing technology that covers the entire payment value chain has been available from Casablanca-based S2M for over 40 years. S2M provides more than 160 customers in over 35 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia with card issuing and merchant account processing and card personalization services. S2M customers include national switches and payment […]

Visa and Brale’s Stablecoin Proof of Concept on the Canton Network

The Canton Network provides transactionlevel privacy not found on other public blockchains, such as Ethereum, Solana, Cardano and Polygon, which are decentralized and open source. On the Canton Network, only parties that are part of the transaction can see its details. Multiple parties can transact using different private ledgers.

Yabie Software Platform

Stockholm-based Yabie started in 2017 as a custom software developer for smartphones and tablets used as POS terminals. Subsequently, it built a suite of commerce products for small businesses in the restaurant, retail and service industries, and two years ago, created a platform to make its software available to acquirers and PSPs throughout Europe. Worldpay, […]

Top 45 Merchant Acquirers in Europe—2025

Cards carrying the global brands—Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club/Discover, UnionPay and JCB—generated 150.83 billion transactions, an increase of 6.6%.

Lydian Stablecoin Processing for Merchants

Acquirers need only one link to Lydian to gain access to more than 300 digital assets and 860 million consumers with crypto wallets (MetaMask, Binance, Trust Wallet, etc.). Lydian provides a checkout user interface SDK and a suite of APIs and unified merchant reporting. There is no operational overhead tied to crypto wallet management or treasury management. No new workflows are required.

Know Your Agent Pay Protocol Consortium

Skyfire, which launched end-to-end interoperable network infrastructure capabilities for autonomous agentic commerce early in 2025, assembled a consortium of more than 15 security vendors, bot managers and identity and access management companies to create a trust protocol they call KYAPay to make the web just as useful to an AI agent as it is to a human when making a payment.

Global Payments AI-First Handheld POS Device

The ultra-thin Genius will deliver AI features such as the ability to accept menu item orders in high-noise environments based on conversations between the customer and the server, with the software identifying what is being ordered.