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

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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

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

SumUp battles for small merchants

The point-of-sale firm is investing in the U.S. to seize a larger share among small retailers as bigger payments players move upmarket.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 2, 2025

Payments conferences to keep on your radar for 2026

The U.S. open banking rule and artificial intelligence are expected to be hot topics at next year’s payments industry events.

By Shefali Kapadia • Oct. 1, 2025

Stripe pushes agentic AI sales via chat

The payments firm is teaming with OpenAI for a new agentic commerce protocol to help merchants sell their wares via AI chat sessions.

By Justin Bachman • Sept. 30, 2025

US payments growth may have peaked

Payments revenue growth is projected to slow over the next four years, with cash-to-card migration largely in the rearview, said the author of a BCG report.

By Caitlin Mullen • Sept. 29, 2025

Affirm eager to grow services

Home and personal services is one of Affirm’s smallest merchant categories but among the fastest-growing for the buy now, pay later provider, its CFO said Tuesday.

By Justin Bachman • Sept. 24, 2025

Capital One cuts Discover workers

The bank said it’s cutting nearly 400 Discover employees between November and March 2026, following job cuts last month related to Discover’s home equity business.

By Caitlin Mullen • Sept. 23, 2025

Cardless fuels growth with new $60M

The credit card fintech will use the fresh capital to hire and bolster its work with clients Coinbase and Bilt, co-founder Michael Spelfogel said.

By Caitlin Mullen • Sept. 22, 2025

Shopify wants court to toss Sezzle lawsuit

The BNPL provider is misapplying antitrust law because it dislikes competition, Shopify said in a motion to dismiss Sezzle’s lawsuit.

By Justin Bachman • Sept. 22, 2025

Don’t conflate surcharges and ‘junk’ fees

“Payment processors and merchants must strongly oppose claims conflating credit card surcharging with mandatory or ‘junk’ fees,” say legal pros.

By Jonathan Razi and Keturah Taylor • Sept. 19, 2025

PayPal, Google enter major tech pact

The digital payments pioneer has locked arms with the tech titan in a multi-year deal to pursue a “next-generation commerce and payments platform.”

By Lynne Marek • Sept. 18, 2025

AI commerce portends potential fraud

As payments firms enable agentic AI shopping, secure transactions and safeguards are at the forefront of their initiatives.

By Shefali Kapadia • Sept. 18, 2025

Cash App lures BNPL card users

Block has drawn 1 million consumers to its Cash App debit card with post-purchase BNPL, creating a “next-gen” credit card clientele, the company’s CFO said.

By Justin Bachman • Sept. 16, 2025