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    Circle K launches fleet payment mobile app

    The program, developed alongside Car IQ, is designed to help drivers avoid credit card skimmers at the pump.

    By Brett Dworski • May 22, 2025
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    Klarna touts merchant growth

    The buy now, pay later provider surpassed 100 million users globally this year, but also reported widening consumer credit losses for the first quarter.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris and Lynne Marek • May 20, 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
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    Paymentus keeps the lights on

    Utilities and auto loans may not be exciting, but nondiscretionary payments is a profitable business largely unaffected by downturns, CEO Dushyant Sharma says.

    By Justin Bachman • May 20, 2025
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    Hack could cost Coinbase up to $400M

    The crypto exchange is offering a $20 million reward for information leading to the hackers’ arrest. Coinbase terminated customer support agents who leaked customer data.

    By Gabrielle Saulsbery • May 19, 2025
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    Why Mastercard invested in Corpay

    The $300 million infusion in a cross-border partner creates a complementary tie, the network’s CFO said. It also comes as headwinds rise on that front.

    By May 19, 2025
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    Amex offers virtual card to small businesses

    The company has long provided the service to corporate clients, but this month started letting small business owners pay suppliers who accept Amex without a physical card.

    By May 19, 2025
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    CFPB slashes Wise penalty

    The U.S. unit of fintech Wise must pay the bureau $45,000 and roughly $450,000 in redress to affected customers – a far cry from the $2.5 million penalty issued in January.

    By Rajashree Chakravarty • May 18, 2025
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    Toast targets entertainment venues

    The digital processor signed a Dallas-based chain of driving ranges as a customer in the first quarter, and has made a push to add movie theaters, bowling alleys and arcades.

    By May 16, 2025
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    Banks struggle to talk about fraud

    Financial institutions battling an increase in fraud, particularly push-payment scams, have been stymied in sharing information that might help them better protect customers.

    By May 15, 2025
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    Businesses grapple with payments fraud

    Companies are struggling to keep up with fraudsters’ growing technological prowess, particularly in business email compromises.

    By David McCann • May 14, 2025
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    JPMorgan Chase taps payments tech head

    The bank’s payments arm named Sri Shivananda to head up its technology operations this year. Now, he’s overseeing decisions on stablecoins, real-time transactions and other advances.

    By May 14, 2025
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    BNPL users struggle with payments

    Nearly half of U.S. adults who have used buy now, pay later services experienced financial difficulties, such as overspending or missing a bill payment, according to a recent survey.

    By May 13, 2025
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    Google drops lawsuit against CFPB

    The tech giant ended its court battle as the federal agency halted supervision of the company’s payments arm.

    By Justin Bachman • May 13, 2025
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    Stablecoin bill falters in Senate

    Democrats demanded fixes to the GENIUS Act – designed to create a framework for bringing stablecoins into the U.S. financial system – and raised concerns about Trump’s ties with crypto ventures.

    By Rajashree Chakravarty • May 12, 2025
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    Marqeta chief focuses on revenue diversity, execution

    Interim CEO Mike Milotich wants to boost the processor’s non-Block revenue and expand its embedded finance offerings via a new mobile app for customers.

    By Justin Bachman • May 12, 2025
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    Cash App profits disappoint

    Block reported just 10% growth in first-quarter gross profit for Cash App, even after it added Afterpay to Cash App debit cards.

    By May 12, 2025
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    Expensify predicts brand boom from Brad Pitt F1 film

    The travel-and-expense manager is the top sponsor of Pitt’s fictional race team and says it expects a wave of new leads from Apple’s summer drama.

    By Justin Bachman • May 9, 2025
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    Banks must accelerate ISO 20022 prep

    “While larger banks have made considerable progress in preparing for this transition, smaller regional banks and credit unions are largely lagging,” writes one IT executive.

    By Robert Turner • May 9, 2025
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    AvidXchange swallowed in $2B deal

    The accounts payable software firm agreed to be taken private in an acquisition by investment company TPG and card processor Corpay.

    By May 8, 2025
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    Apple faces new payments lawsuit

    A basketball training company is suing the tech titan, which it claims unfairly collected money from potentially more than 100,000 app developers.

    By Justin Bachman • May 7, 2025
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    Indiana passes EWA law

    The state follows others, including Nevada and Wisconsin, in instituting licensing requirements for earned wage access providers.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • May 7, 2025
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    Visa pursues stablecoins for cross-border payments

    The biggest U.S. card network is setting up partnerships and innovating behind the scenes to develop stablecoins for cross-border uses.

    By May 6, 2025
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    Zelle service glitch tied to Fiserv resolved

    The P2P payments experienced technical troubles Friday as Fiserv cited an "internal issue" that disrupted its service.

    By Justin Bachman • Updated May 5, 2025
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    Apple violated app payments injunction, judge rules

    The tech giant schemed to limit competition and protect its payment revenues from app developers despite the court’s 2021 order, a federal judge said.

    By Justin Bachman • May 2, 2025
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    Green Dot, Crypto.com partner for banking services

    Crypto.com has collaborated with other mainstream financial firms like Visa and FIS to offer its digital currency customers more services. 

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • May 2, 2025