Butter Payments, a payments recovery platform, has recovered 56% more subscription revenue year-over-year, marking strong growth for the San Francisco-based company. The platform helped merchants achieve a 73% increase in restored subscriptions and an 87% increase in recovered subscribers. The company launched two new agentic AI-powered products in 2026: Payments Score, which predicts customer payment likelihood using Butter's payment dataset, and Outreach, which determines optimal recovery strategies such as email, SMS or calls using machine learning. Butter serves subscription brands including The Athletic, Bobbie and Prose across sectors including AI, consumer goods and publishing. The company aims to help address involuntary churn, which costs the subscription industry an estimated $440 billion in lost revenue annually.

Deluxe profit up 61.2% and other digital transactions news briefs from 1/29/26. * Deluxe Corp. reported $2.13 billion in 2025 revenue, up 0.5% from $2.12 billion in 2024. Its net income, however, grew even more reaching $85.3 million in 2025, up 61.2% from $52.9 million the year prior. In the fourth quarter, Deluxe had $535.5 million in revenue, up 2.8% from $520.5 million in the year-prior quarter. Its quarterly profit of $15.1s million was up 19.8% from $12.6 million. * The Identity Theft Resource Center released its 2025 data breach report that the number of victim notices decreased 79% from 2024 because of the lack of mega-breaches last year. * Subscription recovery platform Butter Payments launched Payments Score and Outreach, two products using agentic artificial intelligence technology. * Online checkout provider Bolt said it will work with Aethir, a cloud infrastructure provider, to enable an open-Web checkout service for games distributed outside of traditional app stores. * The Merchants Payments Coalition, advocates of the Credit Card Competition Act, said four large labor unions endorsed the CCCA's passage. * Processor Fiserv Inc. said it will work with ServiceNow, a business operations platform, to improve its operations for information technology and customer service environments for Fiserv clients. * Security firm VGS announced a one-day event set for March 3 in San Francisco and covering payments based on AI technology. * Restaurant point-of-sale specialist SpotOn outlined its hospitality zone participation at Guy Fieri's Flavortown Tailgate, an event tied to this year's Super Bowl on Feb. 8. * Bitget announced an update and redesign for its wallet app, which it says now brings into one place crypto spending on Mastercard- and Visa-branded cards, QR payments, bank transfers, and in-app shopping capabilities. * Payments-software provider Euna Solutions, formerly based in Chicago, opened its new U.S. headquarters in Sandy Springs, Ga.