JPMorgan, Nacha to share data via blockchain

The companies aim to simplify the account verification process for JPMorgan Chase customers.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 11, 2026

Fiserv struggles with financial business

Revenue in the company’s financial services and banking sectors fell year-over-year, which executives attributed to market share loss among credit unions.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 10, 2026

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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

Payoneer CFO eyes stablecoin, AI innovation

Bea Ordonez said the payments company is focused on expanding its core ecosystem, strengthening partnerships, and building out strategies for stablecoin and AI.

By Grace Noto • Feb. 9, 2026

Block to chop up to 10% of employees

The company is reducing its workforce to trim overhead costs and stay below a 12,000 employee cap, analysts said.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 9, 2026

How to fix subscription pay friction

What can a subscription-based company do when a customer hasn’t canceled but their payment fails? Butter has an algorithmic fix.

By Justin Bachman • Feb. 6, 2026

Zip debuts pay-in-2 option

The buy now, pay later company on Wednesday started letting U.S. customers split everyday payments in half, rather than into four installments.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 6, 2026

Visa, Amex vie for small businesses

The card networks are each pitching new services to mom-and-pop stores, including financing options as well as tools for expense management and fraud mitigation.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 5, 2026

Spire names new CEO to grow pay-by-bank

The company hired former Fiserv executive Jennifer LaClair and raised $10 million to expand services enabling consumers to make direct payments from their bank accounts to merchants.

By Justin Bachman • Feb. 5, 2026

Modernizing payments is essential

“The shift toward a 24/7 payments ecosystem is inevitable...organizations that are prepared to support instant payments will have a distinct competitive advantage,” writes one industry executive.

By Mihail Duta • Feb. 5, 2026

What went wrong at PayPal

Slow merchant adoption of the digital payment pioneer’s latest technology and lagging growth of its legacy checkout services stymied growth plans.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 4, 2026

How AI commerce threatens eBay, Amazon

Agentic robots that shop and pay without human involvement could potentially render retail marketplaces obsolete – and big merchants are responding.

By Justin Bachman • Feb. 4, 2026

Why some payments companies want to be banks

Banking charters let those companies streamline their services and save money by not partnering with banks.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 3, 2026

PayPal appoints new CEO

The digital payments company tapped former HP CEO Enrique Lores as its new chief executive Tuesday, casting aside Alex Chriss.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 3, 2026

Amex buoyed by big spenders

The card network reported a 15% year-over-year increase in cardholder spending at luxury merchants.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 2, 2026

Charting 2026 payments trends

Here are 4 stories that round up our deep dive outlook for this year, including coverage of agentic payments, fraud and personalization.

By Lynne Marek • Jan. 30, 2026

Block opens Dublin office

The location, announced Thursday, will include a demonstration lab to show off products to potential European customers.

By Patrick Cooley • Jan. 30, 2026

Embedded finance to ‘explode’: panel

Tucking financial services, like payments, into a broader range of consumer situations is about to take off, bank executives said Thursday.

By Justin Bachman • Jan. 30, 2026

Visa doles out stablecoin advice

The company began offering clients strategic counsel on the digital assets last month, but doesn’t foresee many U.S. consumer use cases.

By Lynne Marek • Jan. 30, 2026

Fiserv sued over alleged lax security

A Tampa credit union alleged that the processor failed to protect customers from cyber hacks, but charged extra fees for a security upgrade.

By Patrick Cooley • Jan. 29, 2026

Bot payments lag in agentic commerce

Within the emerging world of agentic commerce, a broad gap exists between bot shopping and autonomous payments.

By Justin Bachman • Jan. 29, 2026

State legislatures mull remittance restrictions

Battle lines are being drawn in Florida and Missouri over legislation that would bar money transfer firms from servicing “unauthorized aliens.”

By Lynne Marek • Jan. 28, 2026

Amazon to halt palm payments

The online retailer said all Amazon One palm readers will be removed from physical stores by June 3.

By Patrick Cooley • Jan. 28, 2026

Zelle network expands by 15%

Most of the 337 banks that were added to the network last year were small community banks and credit unions.

By Patrick Cooley • Jan. 28, 2026

Brex CFO Erica Dorfman’s take on the Capital One deal

In a rare look inside a major fintech transaction, Dorfman describes the speed, scale and boardroom logic that led Brex to Capital One.

By Adam Zaki • Jan. 26, 2026

How payment personalization could change the way we pay

The emerging trend will require payment companies to jockey for position in payment suggestions offered by agentic shopping tools.

By Patrick Cooley • Jan. 26, 2026