Shopify aims to kill Sezzle lawsuit

The Canadian online commerce company plans to ask a federal judge to dismiss Sezzle’s antitrust complaint over the companies’ competing BNPL offerings.

By Justin Bachman • Aug. 12, 2025

Western Union makes $500M acquisition

The old line money transfer company bought a rival as it seeks to bolster growth, particularly in Latin America.

By Lynne Marek • Aug. 12, 2025

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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

AI takes on bill payments

Paymentus CEO Dushyant Sharma explained how his company is using AI to make paying bills digitally more efficient.

By Patrick Cooley • Aug. 11, 2025

Block courts teen app users

The company announced a focus on keeping its youngest customers on Cash App to secure future growth for the platform.

By Patrick Cooley • Aug. 8, 2025

Big bank moves threaten innovation

That threat extends to American leadership, but the Trump administration can address it in a revised open banking rule, trade group leaders say.

By Penny Lee and Ji Hun Kim • Aug. 8, 2025

Global Payments mulls more divestitures

The mega processor may sell assets after the Worldpay purchase revised its outlook. The company also expects Trump tax benefits.

By Lynne Marek • Aug. 7, 2025

FIS lines up acquisitions

After quietly buying Everlink, the payments processor has plans for more acquisitions “shortly,” the CEO said.

By Lynne Marek • Aug. 6, 2025

Will JPMorgan take a bigger bite of Apple?

If the bank makes a play for the tech company's credit card portfolio, it may also make a broader bid for more business.

By Patrick Cooley • Aug. 5, 2025

Finzly CFO seeks ‘connectivity’

As the first CFO for the payments infrastructure provider, software alum Adam Carson aims to upgrade the finance role from a "backseat function."

By Grace Noto • Aug. 5, 2025

When will you be able to buy a pizza with stablecoin?

The Genius Act is law. Here’s how 5 professionals in the payments industry view prospects for the digital currency becoming a daily payment option.

By Justin Bachman • Aug. 5, 2025

Shuffle: Finzly, Bitcoin Depot and PayIt

Fintech companies made new CFO and other executive appointments last month as they brace for economic and regulatory headwinds.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Aug. 4, 2025

Mastercard backs open banking

The card network’s CEO favors the worldwide open banking trend, and predicts it will be a “winning proposition over time.”

By Lynne Marek • Aug. 4, 2025

Payroc scoops up another peer

The suburban Chicago payments processor nabbed payments orchestration firm BlueSnap as the latest purchase in its acquisition streak.

By Lynne Marek • Aug. 1, 2025

EWS schools Zelle users on fraud

The company has locked arms with a national nonprofit to educate consumers about fraud and scams on the peer-to-peer payments tool.

By Patrick Cooley • Aug. 1, 2025

PayPal embarks on $300M restructuring

The digital payments company has begun to log expenses for a “large-scale initiative” to overhaul its technology infrastructure, including job cuts.

By Lynne Marek • July 31, 2025

Block takes aim at Google, Apple

The company’s new Cash App group payments feature lets users pool money with transfers from Apple Pay and Google Pay. That could allow it to poach customers from the rivals.

By Patrick Cooley • July 31, 2025

Ramp raises $500M to rush AI

The fintech has amassed $700 million in funding over two months as it tries to capitalize on corporate finance’s adoption of artificial intelligence.

By Justin Bachman • July 30, 2025

Visa tailors stablecoin strategy

CEO Ryan McInerney expects the digital assets to be beneficial in emerging markets where the network’s digitization efforts have faced difficulties.

By Lynne Marek • July 30, 2025

Splitit pivots customer strategy

The BNPL player will rely less on partnering with individual merchants thanks to a partnership with Samsung’s digital wallet.

By Patrick Cooley • July 29, 2025

Fiserv sued over Clover migration

A securities lawsuit alleges the payments processor moved merchants to Clover, and then misled investors about the point-of-sale system’s growth.

By Patrick Cooley • July 28, 2025

Coinstar to offer Mastercard card

The company behind the green coin machines at grocery stores will soon let consumers turn their pocket change into a prepaid debit card.

By Lynne Marek • July 28, 2025

How to build a B2B payments behemoth

No single company dominates U.S. commercial payments, as with card networks or merchant acquirers. Bottomline CEO Craig Saks says that will change.

By Justin Bachman • July 25, 2025

Payments hurl toward digitization

It’s no coincidence that President Donald Trump ushered in the stablecoin era just a few months after the Treasury Department canceled the penny.

By Lynne Marek • July 25, 2025

Stablecoins face last-mile trouble

“The promise of stablecoins to solve existing issues quickly encounters a series of challenges,” writes an ACI Worldwide executive. “Chief among them is what we call the ‘last mile’ problem.”

By Phil Bruno • July 24, 2025

Block agrees to $12.5M settlement in Cash App spam text case

A class action alleged the company let users send spam messages to other users in violation of a Washington state law.

By Patrick Cooley • July 23, 2025