Zip targets BNPL services at everyday purchases

New partnerships focused on common consumer transactions recently allowed the Australian buy now, pay later company to boost revenue in the U.S. market.

By Patrick Cooley • March 4, 2025

Visa lays out blueprint for global growth

As if to push back against slowing card business growth in the U.S., the network’s top executives have staked out areas targeted for expansion.

By Lynne Marek • March 3, 2025

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Cross-border payments targeted for upgrades

When it comes to cross-border payments, businesses, non-profits and governments alike are determined to increase the speed of transactions and cut the cost.

By Payments Dive staff

Fiserv exec talks real-time payments and challenges

Matt Wilcox, president of digital payments solutions for Fiserv, discussed the company’s plans for making real-time payments ubiquitous, and the hurdles to reaching that goal.

By Patrick Cooley • March 3, 2025

NCR Voyix links with Worldpay, reports revenue drop

The e-commerce payments company narrowed its losses last year, even as revenue declined. Now, it’s wooing restaurants and retailers through the new tie.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 28, 2025

Stripe bids for worker shares in offer worth $91.5B

The payments processing company will join with some of its investors to buy stock from current and former employees, Stripe said Thursday.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 27, 2025

Gen Z uses BNPL more than credit cards, survey shows

A J.D. Power survey of about 4,300 U.S. consumers found that more of them used buy now, pay later products than credit cards during the holiday shopping season last year.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 27, 2025

Digital gift card provider Raise closes $63M round

Cryptocurrency-focused investment firms and organizations poured capital into the gift card company that says it focuses on “blockchain-powered payments.”

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 26, 2025

Amex, Alipay target fast-growing China market

The card company has locked arms with the local digital payments player to accelerate its growth in China, the world’s second most populous nation.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 26, 2025

Durbin to reintroduce credit card competition bill

The senate minority whip from Illinois plans to reintroduce the Credit Card Competition Act proposal in a bid to increase competition for Visa and Mastercard.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 25, 2025

PayPal CFO takes on COO role

Jamie Miller added the new responsibilities as she teams with CEO Alex Chriss to give the digital payments pioneer a bigger role in commerce.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 25, 2025

Will Global Payments sell its issuer business?

Some analysts are pressing the processor to consider divesting the segment that caters to financial institutions, even as its merchant segment grapples with competition.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 24, 2025

Block begins rollout of Afterpay on Cash App debit card

The buy now, pay later product Afterpay became available to eligible cardholders in 20 states Tuesday.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 21, 2025

Worldwide card use to jump 43% by 2029, Nilson predicts

Nonetheless, credit, debit and prepaid card transactions will expand at the slowest rate in the U.S., relative to other regions in the world, the research firm Nilson Report forecast.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 21, 2025

Toast dips toe into retail payments

Mainly known as a company catering to restaurants, Toast executives said they plan to partner with more food and beverage retailers this year.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 21, 2025

Shift4 to acquire Global Blue for $1.5B

The processor will buy the retail and hospitality payments services provider in an all-cash transaction to build a globally integrated payment platform.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 19, 2025

Payments players mull new approaches to fraud

Google, Nacha, Early Warning Services and Truist are among the companies seeking to better protect the e-commerce ecosystem from push-payment scams.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 18, 2025

Ex-FDIC official McKernan tapped to lead CFPB

The development came on a day when the bureau terminated roughly 70 probationary employees, including enforcement division attorneys, according to Bloomberg Law.

By Dan Ennis • Feb. 12, 2025

Payment tools proliferate, consolidation looms

“The winners in this consolidation won't necessarily be the biggest players,” writes a checkout technology company CEO. “They'll be the ones who understand that consumers don't want more payment options — they want better ones.”

By Justin Grooms • Feb. 12, 2025

PayPal dinged over branded service’s slow growth

Consumer uptake of the payments pioneer’s flagship payments tool was lackluster last year. The company promised skeptical analysts more growth this year. 

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 10, 2025

Affirm to emphasize no-interest loans

The company said that offering more interest-free financing options would drive profits by bringing in more customers.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 10, 2025

Cashless concerts and events catch on

By some estimates, about 50% of today’s concerts are cashless, with benefits for merchants and payments processors alike.

By Shefali Kapadia • Feb. 7, 2025

NCR Voyix shifts chairman to CEO post

The C-suite change this week follows the Atlanta-based digital commerce software company’s decision to sell off parts of its business.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 6, 2025

Cash App, Venmo app downloads decline

Consumer downloads of apps like Cash App and Venmo dropped in the fourth quarter compared to the year-ago period, data from Wolfe Research shows.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 5, 2025

Gamers support CFPB video game payments rule

Video game players and their parents submitted comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau saying they overspent, or lost their accounts to hackers.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 4, 2025

Visa leans into A2A payments

The network titan is pursuing account-to-account payment services as a way to expand beyond its card-based dominance in the market.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 3, 2025