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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 -
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PayPal taps data for ad revenue
The digital payments pioneer is building an ad business that relies on transaction data, expanding this week with off-site ads in Europe.
By Lynne Marek • Sept. 17, 2025 -
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TrendlineDigital wallets proliferate as features advance
As more companies aim to offer digital wallets the rise in competition is sharpening their features.
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Google preps for bot payments
The tech giant launched a payments protocol to address online commerce challenges posed by agentic AI, partnering with Mastercard and PayPal.
By Justin Bachman • Sept. 17, 2025 -
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Plaid to pay for JPMorgan data
Under the agreement between the two companies, the bank will be paid for sharing consumer data with Plaid. Fintech groups excoriated JPMorgan for the new access fees.
By Justin Bachman • Sept. 16, 2025 -
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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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PayPal CEO rejects stablecoin threat
Alex Chriss doesn’t view the ascendent cryptocurrency as a threat, but rather an advantage.
By Lynne Marek • 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 Lynne Marek • 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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ColumnOpen 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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OpinionEarned 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 Lynne Marek • 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 Lynne Marek • 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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