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CCCA seeks new path to passage
Sens. Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall are angling to attach their credit card interchange fee legislation to a major housing bill before Congress.
By Lynne Marek • March 4, 2026 -
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ColumnWould a bank buy PayPal?
Whether major banks, such as JPMorgan Chase and Capital One, might have an interest in owning PayPal could turn on their ability to monetize that two-sided network.
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TrendlineDigital wallets proliferate as features advance
As more companies aim to offer digital wallets the rise in competition is sharpening their features.
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Shift4 taps xAI for customer service
The payment processor announced it would partner with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company for a range of uses.
By Patrick Cooley • March 3, 2026 -
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Apple, Google wallets get personal
Beyond payments, the digital wallet is a platform for commerce with software startup Badge trying to help brands expand their wallet presence.
By Justin Bachman • March 3, 2026 -
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PayPal, Rainforest join forces
The digital payments pioneer and software services firm are locking arms to simplify embedded payments for merchants.
By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 27, 2026 -
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Block swaps 4,000 workers for AI
CEO Jack Dorsey told investors Thursday that Block’s headcount will drop about 40% as it leans on artificial intelligence for efficiencies.
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Fiserv appoints new executives
The payment processor added two chief revenue officers and a business development executive as it seeks to raise sales figures.
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Stripe’s slower view of agentic commerce
The processing giant, like some other digital commerce specialists, sees agent-enabled shopping evolving at a measured pace.
By Justin Bachman • Feb. 25, 2026 -
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New York releases draft BNPL rules
The state aims to set a national standard for regulating buy now, pay later lenders with its regulations issued Monday.
By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 24, 2026 -
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Klarna pursues more banking customers
The company is targeting more long-term loan and debit card customers as an avenue for growth as it tries to curtail losses.
By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 20, 2026 -
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Visa to buy Prisma in Argentina
The card network company is buying the card processing and real-time payments assets as it expands its reach in South America.
By Lynne Marek • Feb. 19, 2026 -
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Toast courts fast-food restaurants
The company is entering the drive-thru business in a bid to attract more of the quick-service sector to its customer rolls.
By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 19, 2026 -
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Global Payments builds salesforce
The payments processor plans to hire hundreds of additional sales agents this year as it builds on its acquisition of Worldpay.
By Lynne Marek • Feb. 18, 2026 -
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Sezzle adds phone service offer
The new plans will be available at cheaper rates for Sezzle subscribers, as the BNPL provider seeks to grow its subscription business.
By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 18, 2026 -
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Affirm partnerships target growth
The company’s latest collaborations are aimed at branching out into more sectors of the economy, consultants and analysts say.
By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 17, 2026 -
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Cash App debuts payment links
After PayPal debuted a similar feature last year, Cash App also wants to simplify payment requests for users.
By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 12, 2026 -
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Judge backs Illinois law on card fees
A U.S. judge ruled that federal bank law doesn’t preempt an Illinois effort to ban card interchange fees on sales tax and tips. Bank groups vowed to appeal.
By Justin Bachman • Feb. 11, 2026 -
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Fiserv struggles with financial business
Revenue in the company’s financial services and banking sectors fell year-over-year, which executives attributed to market share loss among credit unions.
By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 10, 2026 -
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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.
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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.
By Lynne Marek • Feb. 5, 2026 -
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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.
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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.
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Mastercard offers agentic AI tools
The payments giant plans to provide agentic AI capabilities to merchants using its services by the end of June.
By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 4, 2026 -
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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.
By Lynne Marek • Feb. 4, 2026 -
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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.
By Justin Bachman • Feb. 4, 2026
