Payoneer CFO eyes stablecoin, AI innovation

Bea Ordonez said the payments company is focused on expanding its core ecosystem, strengthening partnerships, and building out strategies for stablecoin and AI.

How to fix subscription pay friction

What can a subscription-based company do when a customer hasn’t canceled but their payment fails? Butter has an algorithmic fix.

Zip debuts pay-in-2 option

The buy now, pay later company on Wednesday started letting U.S. customers split everyday payments in half, rather than into four installments.

Modernizing payments is essential

“The shift toward a 24/7 payments ecosystem is inevitable...organizations that are prepared to support instant payments will have a distinct competitive advantage,” writes one industry executive.

Visa, Amex vie for small businesses

The card networks are each pitching new services to mom-and-pop stores, including financing options as well as tools for expense management and fraud mitigation.

Spire names new CEO to grow pay-by-bank

The company hired former Fiserv executive Jennifer LaClair and raised $10 million to expand services enabling consumers to make direct payments from their bank accounts to merchants.

Arizona mulls card rate cap

A state senator has introduced a bill that follows President Donald Trump’s lead in seeking to cap credit card interest rates.

What went wrong at PayPal

Slow merchant adoption of the digital payment pioneer’s latest technology and lagging growth of its legacy checkout services stymied growth plans.

How AI commerce threatens eBay, Amazon

Agentic robots that shop and pay without human involvement could potentially render retail marketplaces obsolete – and big merchants are responding.

Mastercard offers agentic AI tools

The payments giant plans to provide agentic AI capabilities to merchants using its services by the end of June.

PayPal appoints new CEO

The digital payments company tapped former HP CEO Enrique Lores as its new chief executive Tuesday, casting aside Alex Chriss.

Visa pushes real-time payments into China

The company is partnering with UnionPay International to bring direct payments to debit cardholders in one of the largest remittance markets.

Why some payments companies want to be banks

Banking charters let those companies streamline their services and save money by not partnering with banks.

Amex buoyed by big spenders

The card network reported a 15% year-over-year increase in cardholder spending at luxury merchants.

Maine, DC weigh EWA regulations

Supporters of earned wage access are seeking to shape regulation being considered in Maine and the District of Columbia.

Visa doles out stablecoin advice

The company began offering clients strategic counsel on the digital assets last month, but doesn’t foresee many U.S. consumer use cases.

Block opens Dublin office

The location, announced Thursday, will include a demonstration lab to show off products to potential European customers.

Embedded finance to ‘explode’: panel

Tucking financial services, like payments, into a broader range of consumer situations is about to take off, bank executives said Thursday.

Bot payments lag in agentic commerce

Within the emerging world of agentic commerce, a broad gap exists between bot shopping and autonomous payments.

Mastercard reworks Cap One pact

The card network's CEO said the company signed a new agreement with Capital One, reaffirming ties despite the bank’s purchase of rival Discover.

Fiserv sued over alleged lax security

A Tampa credit union alleged that the processor failed to protect customers from cyber hacks, but charged extra fees for a security upgrade.

Charting 2026 payments trends

Here are 4 stories that round up our deep dive outlook for this year, including coverage of agentic payments, fraud and personalization.

Amazon to halt palm payments

The online retailer said all Amazon One palm readers will be removed from physical stores by June 3.

State legislatures mull remittance restrictions

Battle lines are being drawn in Florida and Missouri over legislation that would bar money transfer firms from servicing “unauthorized aliens.”

Zelle network expands by 15%

Most of the 337 banks that were added to the network last year were small community banks and credit unions.