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    PayPal introduces payment links

    The peer-to-peer payment provider is enabling consumers in the U.S. to receive payments via custom links.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Sept. 15, 2025
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    Fiserv detects profit as gov’t ditches checks

    The payments giant is among numerous companies stalking new business as the U.S. government transitions to electronic transactions.

    By Justin Bachman • Sept. 15, 2025
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    Trendline

    Embedded payment tools make inroads

    Business customers demanding integrated tools is likely to keep driving a trend toward more embedded payments tools.

    By Payments Dive staff
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    PayPal CEO rejects stablecoin threat

    Alex Chriss doesn’t view the ascendent cryptocurrency as a threat, but rather an advantage.

    By • Sept. 12, 2025
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    Bill CEO defends performance

    The payments fintech has “massive” growth potential, says its founder. Two activist investors are likely to demand pursuing that aggressively.

    By Justin Bachman • Sept. 11, 2025
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    Maverik expands cardless payment options

    The retailer’s partnership with Piston lets professional drivers initiate a fuel payment via QR or authorization codes.

    By Jessica Loder • Sept. 11, 2025
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    Fed lifts FedNow limit to $10M

    As financial firms flock to instant payments, the Federal Reserve has pitched FedNow as a way to ease internal transfers, corporate payroll and big transactions.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Sept. 10, 2025
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    Visa, Mastercard push more tokenization

    The card network giants want more merchants and consumers using cards with security tokens to increase transaction volume and to reduce fraud.

    By • Sept. 10, 2025
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    Stablecoin advances crypto adoption

    Once large banks and big payments companies “start leaning in, then obviously that gets the flywheel going,” says Taxbit CEO Lindsey Argalas.

    By Grace Noto • Sept. 10, 2025
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    Klarna counts on retailers for growth

    As Klarna becomes publicly traded, the BNPL giant says the availability of its services at retailers such as Walmart and Macy’s correlates strongly to future growth.

    By Justin Bachman • Sept. 10, 2025
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    Activist investor targets Bill

    Bill Holdings’ weak revenue growth and sagging stock attracted a prominent hedge fund to buy a large stake in the payments and accounting software firm.

    By Justin Bachman • Sept. 9, 2025
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    Great Hill raises $7B fund

    The venture capital firm, which has a niche for investing in payments businesses, plans to keep injecting capital into the financial services sector.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Sept. 8, 2025
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    Open banking looks better with crypto

    After fintechs and crypto bros showed how banks might fetter digital assets, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau revamped its views of open banking.

    By Justin Bachman • Sept. 8, 2025
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    Opinion

    Earned wage access should be free

    “This industry simply cannot continue to charge employees to access their pay,” writes a fintech founder. “We cannot expect employers to deduct these fees from paychecks through payroll.”

    By Jason Lee • Sept. 5, 2025
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    Fiserv buys CardFree for hospitality expansion

    The company said it acquired the California startup that focuses on restaurant and hotel payment systems to expand its Clover point-of-sale business.

    By Justin Bachman • Sept. 5, 2025
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    Chase flags end of gov’t checks

    The JPMorgan bank says it’s striving to make branch customers aware of the federal government’s plan to stop sending paper checks next month. Some consumer advocates are still worried.

    By • Sept. 4, 2025
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    Local governments press online payments

    To avoid paper checks, cities and counties are pushing residents to use online card and ACH payments, according to industry executives.

    By Justin Bachman • Sept. 3, 2025
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    How Nokia, AT&T fight mobile fraud

    Telecom companies are stepping up their efforts to help financial institutions and payments players reduce phone-related fraud.

    By Shefali Kapadia • Sept. 2, 2025
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    Klarna to raise as much as $1.27B

    The buy now, pay later behemoth is ready to proceed with its public stock offering after it first filed for an initial public offering in March.

    By Justin Bachman • Sept. 2, 2025
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    Square unveils new product roadmap

    Block’s point-of-sale unit offered a public glimpse of new features from its product schedule last week, with a request for customer feedback.

    By Justin Bachman • Sept. 2, 2025
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    Innovative Systems acquired by investment firm

    The South Dakota billing and payments software company was purchased by the Chicago private equity firm GTCR.

    By • Aug. 28, 2025
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    AGs attack deepfake porn payments

    Apple, Visa and others must be “more aggressive” in banning payment authorization for nonconsensual content, state AGs told the companies.

    By Justin Bachman • Aug. 28, 2025
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    Worldpay rewires for bot shoppers

    The processor aims to prepare its merchant clients for the opportunities and risks of AI-driven agentic shopping.

    By • Aug. 26, 2025
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    Healthcare payments have slowed, CEO says

    Doctors and dentists have been unable to grow their revenue as inflation and interest rates cause patients to reduce their visits, the CEO of Rectangle Health says.

    By Justin Bachman • Aug. 26, 2025
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    Payments investments, acquisitions slid in H1

    Investments in the payments sphere plummeted for the first half of the year, as did acquisitions in the area, according to a KPMG report.

    By • Aug. 25, 2025
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    Stablecoins set to transform cross-border payments

    The search for faster and cheaper global payments is leading many companies to consider the use of stablecoins for remittances.

    By Justin Bachman • Aug. 25, 2025