Nacha confab fun included swag, mixers and games

The Smarter Faster Payments conference this week wasn’t all work. There were games, freebies and parties to balance the heady panels.

By Lynne Marek • May 1, 2026

How AI is bettering B2B payments

AI is a new tool to help optimize accounts receivable, which has become a “data science challenge” for many large companies, Billtrust’s CEO says.

By Justin Bachman • May 1, 2026

Explore the 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

Visa, Mastercard cite travel slowdown impact

While the war in Iran is depressing travel and hurting income, the card networks are leaning into stablecoins to drive future revenue growth.

By Lynne Marek • April 30, 2026

Adyen nabs loyalty platform for $876M

The deal for Talon.One will let the Dutch fintech connect a shopper’s online and in-store interactions so promotions and pricing can be adjusted midstream.

By Dan Ennis • April 30, 2026

Stripe, Google partner on agentic commerce

With a Google partnership unveiled Wednesday, the payments processor is bringing agentic checkout to four of the largest AI platforms.

By Justin Bachman • April 30, 2026

Mercury nabs conditional OCC charter

The fintech has received conditional approval four months after it applied for a national bank charter, when it named a SoFi alum as CEO of the proposed Mercury Bank.

By Gabrielle Saulsbery • April 29, 2026

Amex pushes for agentic standards

The credit card company has offered customers protections for bot shopping, and it’s urging industry players to embrace a shared standard.

By Lynne Marek • April 29, 2026

Visa CEO envisions stablecoin, agentic benefit

The card network giant is trying to position its services business as an essential infrastructure component in stablecoins and agentic commerce.

By Justin Bachman • April 29, 2026

Harnessing AI to fight fraud

Payments players are tapping artificial intelligence to beat back fraud bolstered by AI, and Congress may provide an assist.

By Lynne Marek • April 28, 2026

Sezzle eyes checking accounts

The buy now, pay later provider is exploring additional financial services, including deposit accounts, as it seeks to build a “super app.”

By Justin Bachman • April 27, 2026

Tactics to combat fraud and protect your business reputation

Businesses can adopt tools like tokenization to combat fraud and protect their reputations.

April 27, 2026

What drives real-time payment growth

Corporations adopt faster digital payments based on their priorities and the rise of digital assets, an HSBC payments executive said.

By Justin Bachman • April 24, 2026

Repay attracts $1B takeover offer

The payments processing services company is the target of an unsolicited offer from an investor, just as it’s trying to acquire another company.

By Lynne Marek • April 22, 2026

PayPal, NFL make connection

The digital payments pioneer will team with the professional football league in a bid to move money between fans.

By Lynne Marek • April 21, 2026

FIS, Barclays extend core banking tie

The payments processor has won a multi-year extension of its core banking technology contract with the British financial institution.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • April 20, 2026

Tapping into the latest emerging payment solution trends

Strategically integrating these solutions can help deliver the seamless shopping customers demand.

April 20, 2026

Amex to buy Hypercard

The card company has agreed to purchase the agentic expense management firm backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

By Lynne Marek • April 17, 2026

Warren pounds X Money plans

Sen. Elizabeth Warren demanded information from billionaire Elon Musk about his plans to launch a digital wallet this month.

By Lynne Marek • April 15, 2026

Stablecoins remain little used for payments

Less than one percent of stablecoins are used for payments, and about a fifth aren’t being used at all, a Kansas City Fed researcher estimated.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • April 14, 2026

Which Discover jobs are disappearing

As Capital One integrates the card business, it’s eliminating more than 100 application engineer jobs.

By Lynne Marek • April 13, 2026

Expensive tabs shift to mobile: Stripe

Digital wallets are driving a migration of more expensive purchases from desktop to mobile devices, a Stripe report found.

By Justin Bachman • April 13, 2026

Repay faces Kubra purchase opposition

A major shareholder of the digital bill payment services provider bashed its plan to buy a bill payment peer.

By Lynne Marek • Updated April 16, 2026

Adyen tool speeds business payments

Financial operations at global enterprises remain “stubbornly complex,” as treasury teams juggle multiple banking and payment systems, the company said.

By Alexei Alexis • April 10, 2026

Fed mulls FedNow x-border use

The Federal Reserve proposed letting participants in the real-time payments system use intermediaries to make cross-border fund transfers.

By Lynne Marek • April 9, 2026

CHIPS network boasts daily payment growth

CHIPS network growth underscores its rising use for large-value domestic and cross-border payments, The Clearing House said.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • April 9, 2026