FIS, Toast CFOs exit

The chief financial officers are leaving the payments players as the companies grapple with separate challenges.

By Lynne Marek • Nov. 4, 2026

Payments firm settles FTC fees case

Riverside Payments and its affiliates agreed to pay $600,000 to resolve allegations they misled small businesses about processing costs.

By Alexei Alexis • Nov. 4, 2026

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Dominant card networks, legacy payments processors and young fintechs are all jockeying to keep up with industry innovations and increased competition.

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Fiserv talks to potential asset buyers

The processor has started engaging with potential buyers for the sale of some of its assets, the CEO said. It has also doubled its savings goal to $1 billion.

By Lynne Marek • Nov. 3, 2026

Venmo results lift PayPal

The digital payments processor is benefiting from its peer-to-peer payment tool business after cutting 2,000 employee jobs.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 27, 2026

The B2B payment stack wasn’t built for how businesses pay now

The B2B payment decision used to be binary. Legacy infrastructure still is.

By Brendan Borst • Oct. 26, 2026

Butter Payments has been sold

The company was purchased last month, said its former chief executive, Charles Rosenblatt, who noted intensifying competitive pressures.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 20, 2026

Visa-Mastercard payouts top $631M

The tally of merchants receiving funds from a $5.5 billion settlement with the networks is nearing 700,000, according to a claims update.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 12, 2026

Stripe, FedEx team on SMB lending

Merging operational and financial data will offer insights into smaller businesses and guide an effort to extend capital to them, the companies said.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 7, 2026

Toast, Square jockey on POS discounts

Parts of the point-of-sale hardware market are seeing price cuts amid a growth push and new upgrade demands from merchants.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 5, 2026

How stablecoins speed int’l payments

Startup Latitude Global pitches faster, cheaper cross-border payments by sending them on modern stablecoin rails.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 2, 2026

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.

By Lynne Marek • Sept. 24, 2026

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.

By Grace Noto • Sept. 23, 2026

Ramp tackles accounts receivable

“Finance teams today spend too much time chasing payments for outstanding invoices,” Ramp’s chief product officer said.

By Alexei Alexis • Sept. 22, 2026

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.

By Justin Bachman • Sept. 16, 2026

Mastercard CFO seeks int’l growth

The company’s new chief financial officer presented his view of stablecoins, growth and acquisitions at an investment bank conference last week.

By Lynne Marek • Sept. 15, 2026

Walmart slams card fee pact, again

The largest U.S. retailer joined hundreds of other merchants calling a swipe-fee settlement with the card networks inadequate and unfair.

By Justin Bachman • Sept. 15, 2026

Visa offers data to back onchain lending

The card network aims to offer settlement and blockchain data so fintechs and card programs backed by stablecoins can better access onchain credit.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Sept. 11, 2026

Ramp takes on AI expense

The expense-management company has expanded into the nascent field of artificial intelligence routing as companies seek to keep tabs on their AI costs.

By Justin Bachman • Sept. 4, 2026

Fiserv explores divestitures

The payments processor, under pressure amid management upheaval and client attrition, told analysts it’s still considering the sale of a debit network.

By Lynne Marek • Sept. 3, 2026

TabaPay eyes bank charter

The money movement platform received a $155 million investment to buy Transact Bank so it can offer payments clients banking services.

By Dan Ennis • Sept. 3, 2026

Stripe taps new stablecoin executive

The financial tech giant hired a crypto pro to help push payment cards backed by stablecoins.

By Justin Bachman • Sept. 3, 2026

EWA grows despite legal limbo

Instant Financial and Clair are among the earned wage access companies expanding even as state and federal oversight evolves.

By Lynne Marek • Aug. 31, 2026

Stripe, OpenRouter finally strike a deal

The payments behemoth’s acquisition of the AI spend management firm has been in the works for weeks. The reported price tag: $7.5 billion.

By Justin Bachman • Aug. 19, 2026

Weave scooped up for $650M

The latest purchase by Fransciso Partners adds to the private equity firm’s stockpile of payments companies, including one it bought earlier this month.

By Lynne Marek • Aug. 19, 2026

Stripe acquisition may bolster its AI strategy

If the company completes a prospective acquisition of OpenRouter, it will set itself up to be at the center of artificial intelligence token payments.

By Justin Bachman • Aug. 19, 2026