FIS agrees to pay $210M settlement

The payments and banking technology company agreed to pay the sum as part of a legal settlement reached last week with investors who sued over its 2019 purchase of Worldpay.

By Lynne Marek • Dec. 23, 2025

Executive shuffle: Fiserv, DailyPay and MoneyGram

Major payments services providers made new C-suite hires this month as they geared up for 2026.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Dec. 23, 2025

Fiserv, Visa unite on agentic tools

The payment processor plans to partner with card networks, also including Mastercard, to cater to merchants navigating agentic commerce.

By Patrick Cooley • Dec. 22, 2025

Visa’s new program rejects fake data

“The industry has pulled together to try and meet the new requirements,” writes one industry CEO. “Unfortunately, some processors and gateways are already trying to game it.”

By Jeremy Layton • Dec. 19, 2025

PayPal seeks bank charter

The digital payments pioneer has applied with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Utah Department of Financial Institutions to form an industrial bank.

By Lynne Marek • Dec. 15, 2025

Merchants assail card fees pact

Retailers, restaurants and others oppose a proposed court settlement with Visa and Mastercard over swipe fees as insufficient and favorable to the networks.

By Justin Bachman • Dec. 15, 2025

JPMorgan backs B2B firm Mondu

The largest U.S. bank’s payments arm plans to provide debt financing and collaborate with the Dutch business-to-business services firm.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Dec. 12, 2025

Airwallex raises $330M in new funding

The payment player’s latest capital injection will help fund further U.S. expansion and a second headquarters in San Francisco.

By Justin Bachman • Dec. 9, 2025

Fiserv faces security issue lawsuit

A civil complaint alleges the payment processor misled its customers about the use of two-factor authentication to access systems containing sensitive information.

By Patrick Cooley • Dec. 8, 2025

Shifting AR from cost center to growth engine

For CFOs at billion-dollar B2B companies, outdated AR approaches are becoming a strategic liability, trapping capital and limiting growth when agility matters most.

Dec. 8, 2025

Pressure on Bill Holdings rises

Another shareholder, Barington Capital Management, urged the finance and payments software provider to cut costs and consider a sale.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Dec. 5, 2025

Billtrust, Pavilion tap new CEOs

The payments players, both of which are owned by private equity firms, switched leaders this month as they charge ahead with growth plans.

By Lynne Marek • Dec. 4, 2025

Stripe to buy Metronome

The digital payments player has agreed to purchase U.S. billing platform Metronome, bringing together software firms that operate in the same realm.

By Patrick Cooley • Dec. 4, 2025

Former PayPal execs invest in Sokin

The former C-suite executives pitched in to help the cross-border payments startup raise $50 million as it seeks to expand internationally.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Dec. 4, 2025

Paystand acquires Bitwage

The blockchain-backed B2B payments provider snapped up another payments player, and raised capital to accelerate its growth.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Nov. 12, 2025

JPMorgan prospers on payments

The bank cited higher payments fees for helping to lift third-quarter revenue, with income from that segment reaching another quarterly record.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 31, 2025

Why one cross-border payments pilot was stymied

Differing regulations across borders makes the instantaneous movement of money a nearly insurmountable challenge, an executive with The Clearing House said.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 31, 2025

Agentic commerce portends merchant headaches

AI agents used by shoppers will change the equation for online sellers, Mastercard’s executive vice president for security solutions said on the sidelines of the Money 20/20 conference.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 30, 2025

Shift4 to buy Worldline subsidiaries

The payment processor said acquiring the North American businesses will add 140,000 new merchant customers to its roster.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 22, 2025

Fiserv, Block turn to crypto

Settling transactions with digital currencies could save processors and merchants money on payments by cutting out bank and card network fees.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 21, 2025

Amex downplays shutdown impact

The card network’s premium customers are still spending, even as the economy faces persistent inflation and a government shutdown, company executives said in an earnings call.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 20, 2025

Bill to cut workforce by 6%

The bill payments company is cutting about 140 jobs as it comes under pressure from activist investors, including Starboard Value.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 17, 2025

Airwallex plots bigger US presence

The payments platform will use its recent acquisition of U.S. startup OpenPay to build out a billing platform in the Americas.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 17, 2025

Visa’s revised card fee system may jolt merchants

The card network giant will begin demanding more data from merchants this week in exchange for discounts, but it may come as a shock to some.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 14, 2025

Crypto use trending down, says Kansas City Fed

A survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City cast doubt on the notion that more U.S. consumers will adopt cryptocurrency for payments, even after a new law eased the path to crypto use.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 14, 2025