Zelle parent pursues crypto for international payments

The peer-to-peer money transfer company said it will leverage stablecoins to let users send money across borders.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 24, 2025

PNC, Capital One embrace FedNow

PNC and Capital One, two major financial institutions that hadn’t yet joined the Federal Reserve’s instant payments system, are ready to do so.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 23, 2025

Explore the Trendline➔

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

CFPB deluged with open banking comments

Banks and fintechs aired their arguments regarding the federal agency’s proposed revision of a rule on sharing consumer data.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 23, 2025

Shift4 to buy Worldline subsidiaries

The payment processor said acquiring the North American businesses will add 140,000 new merchant customers to its roster.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 22, 2025

Stablecoins must become simple: panel

To become widely used, the cryptocurrency needs to work as easily as other currencies, a panel of stablecoin experts said.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 22, 2025

Fiserv, Block turn to crypto

Settling transactions with digital currencies could save processors and merchants money on payments by cutting out bank and card network fees.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 21, 2025

Waller floats ‘skinny’ Fed account

Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller proposed the central bank’s staff explore creating a limited payments account that might be suited to fintechs.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 21, 2025

Stablecoins may reshape payments

CFOs need to turn stablecoin “a little on its head” to get a transparent view of where the assets can sit inside their organizations, EY’s Clare Adelgren said.

By Grace Noto • Oct. 20, 2025

US payments systems mushroom

The Clearing House, Nacha and FedNow all marked expansions for their payments systems over the past month.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 20, 2025

3 keys to a successful graduation strategy for non-prime co-brand

Say “yes” to more customers with a multi-card approach that includes a non-prime co-brand card offering.

Oct. 20, 2025

When legacy scale meets modern innovation

Leaders want innovation AND scale. Legacy payments block it. Newcomers lack it. Why not choose both?

Oct. 20, 2025

Bill to cut workforce by 6%

The bill payments company is cutting about 140 jobs as it comes under pressure from activist investors, including Starboard Value.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 17, 2025

Airwallex plots bigger US presence

The payments platform will use its recent acquisition of U.S. startup OpenPay to build out a billing platform in the Americas.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 17, 2025

Inside Bobby Leibrock’s first 100 days at ACI

The former IBM and Red Hat executive discusses why collaboration, motivation and curiosity are the pillars of his approach to this new CFO role.

By Adam Zaki • Oct. 16, 2025

Fed to boost payments services’ days of operation

The Federal Reserve plans to have the Fedwire Funds Service and the National Settlement Service operate on Sundays, but not until several years from now.

By Lynne Marek • Oct. 16, 2025

Basis Theory raises $33M

The San Francisco-based payments infrastructure startup to pour additional capital into its agentic AI capabilities.

By Tatiana Walk Morris • Oct. 16, 2025

Stripe’s Bridge applies for national trust charter

The stablecoin infrastructure firm joins a growing list of crypto-native firms, including Coinbase and Circle, that have applied for an OCC charter this year.

By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Oct. 15, 2025

Affirm to offer interest holiday

The company’s customers will have a chance to take out loans with 0% APR for three days next week as the holiday shopping season gets under way.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 14, 2025

Crypto use trending down, says Kansas City Fed

A survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City cast doubt on the notion that more U.S. consumers will adopt cryptocurrency for payments, even after a new law eased the path to crypto use.

By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 14, 2025

Crossing the digital divide: How US business payments trends are shifting

U.S. businesses go digital as business payments network Paymode reveals a major shift.

By Mike Jackson, SVP,  Paymode • Oct. 13, 2025

Open banking also helps banks: Fintechs

Financial technology firms are trying to rally support for U.S. open banking as regulators gather comments to inform a revised rule.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 10, 2025

Bank of America fires up AI payments assistant

AskGPS was trained on more than 3,200 internal documents by the company’s in-house engineering team and rolled out last week.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 10, 2025

How to unleash innovation and competition in payments

“Give digital payments companies a path to directly access the Federal Reserve’s systems through a limited-purpose payments bank charter,” writes one former top legal executive.

By John Muller • Oct. 10, 2025

Baltimore sues MoneyLion over lending tactics

City officials filed a lawsuit against the fintech, alleging it operates as a “modern-day payday lender,” charging customers exorbitant interest rates despite marketing its earned wage advances as “zero interest.”

By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 9, 2025

Fiserv launches Roughrider stablecoin

The processor is working with a North Dakota state-owned bank to establish a new digital asset.

By Justin Bachman • Oct. 9, 2025