Fiserv doubles down on embedded finance

Company executives touted a recent partnership with DoorDash and said the company has more embedded finance deals in the pipeline.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 6, 2025

NCR Voyix shifts chairman to CEO post

The C-suite change this week follows the Atlanta-based digital commerce software company’s decision to sell off parts of its business.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 6, 2025

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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

Cash App, Venmo app downloads decline

Consumer downloads of apps like Cash App and Venmo dropped in the fourth quarter compared to the year-ago period, data from Wolfe Research shows.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 5, 2025

Gamers support CFPB video game payments rule

Video game players and their parents submitted comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau saying they overspent, or lost their accounts to hackers.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 4, 2025

Flutterwave CFO keeps eye on ‘sustainable’ profitability

It’s important to prioritize enabling stable revenue and solid profitability given the macroeconomic volatility in the African markets where Flutterwave operates, CFO Mitesh Popat said.

By Grace Noto • Feb. 3, 2025

Mastercard places ad with Lady Gaga

In a tie-up with the musical artist for her eighth studio album, the card network rolled out a new ad during the Grammy Awards on Sunday.

By Peter Adams • Feb. 3, 2025

Chopra finally exits CFPB as Bessent steps in

The agency’s deputy director, Zixta Martinez, was initially named acting director, but a terse press release Monday designated U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to that role.

By Dan Ennis • Feb. 3, 2025

What’s coming for the payments industry in 2025

Regulatory change and artificial intelligence are widely expected to drive challenges and opportunities across the landscape this year.

By Payments Dive staff • Jan. 31, 2025

Worldpay tackles fraud-fighting in new ways

The payments processor is aligning with merchants, card issuers and networks to share transaction data and use AI to fight fraud.

By Lynne Marek • Jan. 30, 2025

Visa’s ex-CFO joins crypto company advisory board

The appointment adds a former top executive of a major card network to Fireblocks’ board as cryptocurrency firms seek more credibility.

By Grace Noto • Jan. 30, 2025

TransferMate joins Amazon’s payments pack

As part of the e-commerce giant’s ecosystem, the Irish business-to-business payments provider can advance its bid to expand internationally.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Jan. 30, 2025

HSBC sunsets year-old app Zing

The bank launched the money transfer app last year in a bid to compete with cross-border payments companies like Wise and Remitly, but is shuttering the operation now.

By Rajashree Chakravarty • Jan. 29, 2025

Apple, Google coalition seeks to skirt payments rule

Tech advocacy groups argue the tech giants should not be subject to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule because they aren’t payment companies, according to a lawsuit filed this month.

By Patrick Cooley • Jan. 29, 2025

Gen Z still prefers in-person shopping

The generation prioritizes buying beauty and luxury goods in person, placing a premium on the physical shopping experience, research from Adyen shows.

By Xanayra Marin-Lopez • Jan. 29, 2025

Amex GBT rolls out emissions-based carbon pricing tool

American Express Global Business Travel said its new tool will help business travelers calculate their carbon footprint and direct investments toward sustainability initiatives.

By Zoya Mirza • Jan. 29, 2025

Fintechs may gain at banks’ expense in Trump era

The Trump administration may usher in policies that buttress the aspirations of new entrant payments players and increase competition for banks.

By Lynne Marek • Jan. 28, 2025

X teams with Visa on new digital payments tool

Billionaire Elon Musk’s social media site has forged an alliance with the card network giant to launch a new digital payments tool later this year.

By Lynne Marek • Jan. 28, 2025

Trade group leader discusses BNPL security and appeal

American Fintech Council CEO Phil Goldfeder discussed the reasons consumers have started using buy now, pay later services in greater numbers, and why they return to the emerging payment method.

By Patrick Cooley • Jan. 27, 2025

Highnote raises $90M for expansion

The embedded payments company led by former Braintree executives will use the capital to extend its business into providing acquiring services.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Jan. 27, 2025

Trump order embraces stablecoins, bars CBDCs

President Trump issued a “digital financial technology” executive order backing the cryptocurrency industry and terminating any federal work on a central bank digital currency.

By Lynne Marek • Jan. 23, 2025

Chopra delivers last-minute digital payment edicts

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made a bid in the last days of the Biden administration to better protect consumers using digital payments tools.

By Lynne Marek • Jan. 22, 2025

Stripe pushes out 300 employees

Despite the 3.5% cut to the payments services company’s headcount, it still plans to increase its total employee headcount to 10,000 by the end of the year, up from 8,200 now.

By Patrick Cooley • Jan. 22, 2025

AI promises 2025 advances for payments industry

The emerging technology will help merchants process payments faster and provide customers with more ways to pay, those who follow the payments industry say. It will also increasingly offer a defense against rising fraud.

By Patrick Cooley • Jan. 21, 2025

FIS entangled in Capital One outage over days

Fidelity National Information Services blamed a local power loss and hardware failure for the issue, which Bank of Oklahoma said affected more than two dozen financial institutions.

By Dan Ennis • Jan. 21, 2025

Why enabling FedNow ‘send’ matters

Financial institutions that “fail to adopt both send and receive functions may be exposing their organizations to competitive disadvantages as well as reputational risks,” writes one industry executive.

By Mihail Duta • Jan. 17, 2025