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Apple lawsuit becomes class action
The tech giant could face claims from thousands of card issuers that paid Apple Pay fees for payments made via Apple’s devices as part of a California lawsuit.
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Senate passes Common Cents bill
The measure to provide merchants a cash rounding framework, and to formally phase out the penny, now heads to the White House.
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Stripe alums spark new payments plays
The digital processor has become a founders’ factory with former employees seeding startups across the financial technology field.
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Payment revenue growth to slow
The rate of payments-related revenue growth in North America, and globally, will slow in the next four years, a major consulting firm predicts.
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Fed proposes stablecoin rules
The regulations aim to make these digital assets “foster payments improvements that benefit households and businesses,” Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr said.
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Q&A
FIDO wrestles with agentic trust
The industry consortium and payments players are considering standards for agentic commerce, particularly for verifying identity.
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Kroger’s AI focus is on ‘flexibility and control’
From bridging the digital and physical shopping worlds to further ramping effective personalization, the grocer’s chief digital officer delved into the company’s priorities.
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ACH use rises for B2B payments
The automated clearing house payments have multiplied to overtake paper checks as the most popular form of business-to-business payments, according to a new Federal Reserve report.
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Moov adds P2P competition
Using Mastercard and Visa’s digital infrastructure, the tool facilitates peer-to-peer payments without requiring both parties to have the same app.
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Adyen snaps up Klarna CFO
The Dutch digital payments processor has hired Niclas Neglen as its new chief financial officer, but he won’t join until next year.
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How digital IDs may battle fraud
Americans are vulnerable to identification and payment frauds because the U.S. has been slow to adopt digital identification, two Congress members said.
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Amazon blocks Meta’s AI shopper
The e-commerce giant said Meta had failed to notify it about the Muse agent accessing its retail site to make purchases on behalf of consumers.
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Ramp tackles accounts receivable
“Finance teams today spend too much time chasing payments for outstanding invoices,” Ramp’s chief product officer said.
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Pentair picks up ex-Fiserv CFO
Former Fiserv CFO Bob Hau is stepping into Pentair’s top finance seat as it seeks to close a $1.4 billion acquisition of Taco Group.
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Column
Merchants call card-fee pact unconstitutional
Walmart and other retailers argue that forcing them to stay in a swipe-fee settlement class violates their due process rights.
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PayCompass, Simpay and Exectras come together
The three payments companies have formed a new processing venture that also sells healthcare services to merchants.
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Cross-border contest heats up
Technological innovation has enabled fintechs to carve out a beachhead in cross-border payments, but banks still have cards to play.
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Mastercard, Google push past passwords
The card network and the tech titan aim to reduce the need for one-time passwords and catalyze more use of biometric payments.
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Toast aims to scale drive-thru AI
The artificial intelligence company Presto is joining the point-of-sale firm’s ecosystem, seeking to ease restaurants’ use of a voice-order tool.
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FleetCor enters $100M settlement
The fuel card company, now known as Corpay, and its CEO agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission $100 million to settle an action over fees.
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Stripe’s wallet embraces AI bots
The payments giant has recently integrated its Link digital wallet for consumers with personal AI agents from Meta, xAI and other AI players.
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Scammers fake student identities to siphon aid payments
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is warning payment processors and financial institutions “to be vigilant” of the fraud schemes.
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MoneyGram taps stablecoin ally
The cross-border company and its rival Western Union are both working with Signify Holdings, aka Rain, to power new digital currency ventures.
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Clarity Act bill stumbles
A measure to regulate crypto assets and stablecoin payments failed in the Senate. Regulators now may have to forge a blueprint for the sector.
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Visa, Mastercard settle Grubhub case
The final settlements in a federal lawsuit over credit card swipe fees, led by the food delivery company, came on the eve of a trial in Chicago.