Amazon sues Perplexity over AI shopping agents

The mass e-commerce company — which alleges Comet agents are covertly making purchases for users — is open to third-party agentic commerce, but on its own terms.

By Dani James • Nov. 6, 2025

Apple sets sights on travel spending

The tech company is embedding its digital wallet as a method of payment at many stages in the travel process in a bid to attract more consumer use.

By Patrick Cooley • Nov. 5, 2025

Explore the Trendline➔

Digital wallets proliferate as features advance

As more companies aim to offer digital wallets the rise in competition is sharpening their features.  

By Payments Dive staff

Global Payments leans into Genius

Global Pay is counting on its rising use of the Genius brand to bolster volume, as it expands with the acquisition of Worldpay.

By Lynne Marek • Nov. 4, 2025

Fiserv turns to AI for help

Fiserv is embracing artificial intelligence as new executives try to fix major portions of the company and placate peeved customers.

By Justin Bachman • Nov. 4, 2025

How agentic AI could turbocharge fraud

Generative artificial intelligence that can shop on a consumer’s behalf could be leveraged by bad actors to commit fraud on a wide scale.

By Patrick Cooley • Nov. 4, 2025

Executive Shuffle: Fiserv, Mastercard and DailyPay

Payments and fintechs reset leadership this month with new CEOs and fresh executives to jump-start finance, sales and marketing functions.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • 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

Fiserv CEO orders major changes

The processor replaced its CFO and added new directors as it seeks to revamp after a management review and troubled quarter revealed deep weaknesses.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 29, 2025

PayPal spots ‘softer’ consumer spending

The digital payments pioneer pointed to consumers’ smaller purchases in the third quarter, and sees the trend continuing.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 29, 2025

BNPLs intrude on banks’ turf

The buy now, pay later industry is increasingly offering services that are the purview of banks, such as deposit accounts and debit cards.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 29, 2025

Agentic AI raises liability issues

Payments companies seek ways to address problems with AI agents making mistakes when shopping for consumers.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 28, 2025

Shoppers to tap BNPL for holidays

Affordability and budget control are the top reasons U.S. consumers are using buy now, pay later services, according to a PayPal survey. 

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Oct. 28, 2025

PayPal, Mastercard advance agentic strategy

The digital payments pioneer and card behemoth are locking arms to add agentic e-commerce shopping options.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 27, 2025

Zelle parent pursues crypto for international payments

The peer-to-peer money transfer company said it will leverage stablecoins to let users send money across borders.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 24, 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

Basis Theory raises $33M

The San Francisco-based payments infrastructure startup to pour additional capital into its agentic AI capabilities.

By Tatiana Walk Morris • Oct. 16, 2025

Visa, Mastercard reach settlement with merchants

The card networks agreed to pay $199.5 million to settle a class action in which a pack of small merchants alleged they shouldn’t have shouldered liabilities for rejected credit card transactions.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 15, 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

Affirm to offer interest holiday

The company’s customers will have a chance to take out loans with 0% APR for three days next week as the holiday shopping season gets under way.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 14, 2025

Investors vie to lead Fiserv stock lawsuit

A federal court will assess the plaintiffs’ claims and select one to shepherd a lawsuit on behalf of other investors suing Fiserv over its stock price decline.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 7, 2025

Visa board adds Pinterest CEO

The credit card network giant added the social media company’s chief executive, Bill Ready, as it expanded its board to 12 members.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 7, 2025

PayPal ties BNPL to cash back

The digital payments company is offering 5% cash rebates with buy now, pay later purchases to lure holiday shoppers to audition its loans.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 6, 2025

Synchrony buys software firm

The card issuer said acquiring Versatile Credit’s consumer financing platform will drive more merchant sales and consumer credit access.

By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 6, 2025

Checkout.com seeks Georgia banking charter

If Checkout.com succeeds in its bid to be a merchant acquirer limited purpose bank, it would become the third company – after Fiserv and Stripe – to do so.

By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Oct. 3, 2025