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POS Supply helps ease impact
of bisphenol receipt demise
With Washington State businesses facing a Jan. 1, 2026,
deadline to eliminate BPA- and BPS-based thermal
receipt paper under the Safer Products for Washington
initiative, POS Supply Solutions is helping organizations
transition smoothly.
The company said it offers the nation's largest selection
of non-phenol thermal paper, manufactured without
BPA, BPS or other phenols. POS Supply provides com-
pliant options across common POS, gas pump, ATM
and kiosk roll sizes, while advising businesses to audit
inventory, educate staff and switch early. A state reim-
bursement program can help offset transition costs, the
company noted.
TAG honors Barry C. McCarthy
ANNOUNCEMENTS The Technology Association of Georgia honored Deluxe
President and CEO Barry C. McCarthy with its Lifetime
Achievement Award at the 2025 Chairmen's Gala.
MWEC honors Dr. Lynne J. Baldwin McCarthy is only the third recipient and the first to also
be inducted into the TAG Fintech Hall of Fame.
BHMI co-founder and President Dr. Lynne J. Baldwin
was honored by the Midwest Women Entrepreneurs
Collective for outstanding leadership, innovation and Since joining Deluxe in 2018, McCarthy has led the
company's transformation into a technology-driven pay-
entrepreneurial achievement in technology. She received
the recognition at MWEC's Pioneer Awards celebration ments and data analysis provider, delivering sustained
financial performance, and processing more than $2
on Nov. 20, 2025, held in partnership with Women's
Entrepreneurship Day Organization. trillion in electronic payments annually. His leadership
has expanded Deluxe's Atlanta innovation presence and
strengthened Georgia's fintech ecosystem, TAG noted.
Under her leadership, BHMI has become a respected
payments technology provider, developing innovative
back-office software for major financial institutions, RESEARCH
MWEC stated. The honor also recognizes Dr. Baldwin's
commitment to mentorship, community leadership and Public awareness of payment
advancing women in business and technology. fraud fades between crises
EMVCo working on global specs Payments technology firm CONCRYT released its
to support agentic payments Payment Fraud Trends: 2024–2025 Update, sharing that
public awareness of payment fraud spikes around major
EMVCo is exploring how global EMV specifications regulatory announcements or incidents, then quickly
can support innovation in agentic payment solutions by fades, even as AI-driven threats intensify. Analyzing
increasing trust and interoperability. Agentic commerce search data, regulations and enforcement actions, the
allows AI agents to transact on consumers' behalf, creat- report shows attention surged during UK reforms in
ing new considerations for transaction initiation, authen- late 2025 but soon returned to baseline, and that regula-
tication and security.
tory developments now drive awareness as strongly as
breaches.
EMVCo is evaluating how specifications such as EMV
3-D Secure, EMV Payment Tokenization, and EMV The study also highlights regional awareness gaps, ris-
Secure Remote Commerce can be enhanced to enable ing AI-enabled scams and synthetic identity fraud, and
secure, scalable agentic payments. The organization said stresses the need for sustained consumer education.
it is engaging industry stakeholders and technical bodies
to collaborate on developing trusted card-based agentic Millennial parents willing to
payment frameworks. pay more for convenience
A survey of 1,000 U.S. millennial parents by NMI found
that holiday shopping evokes joy and nostalgia but
is overshadowed by time, budget and checkout frus-
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