How tokenization turns security into growth

Tokenization adds security, trust, and reliability to transactions, online or in store.

Sept. 22, 2025

PayNearMe raises $50M

Having previously expanded payment services with retail partners, the company now plans to use the capital infusion to enter new markets.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Sept. 19, 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

PayPal vet jumps to Extend as CFO

Francois Horikawa will become the spend management platform’s first chief financial officer as Extend taps $20 million in new capital.

By Grace Noto • Sept. 18, 2025

Remitly debuts tiered membership platform

Remitly One contains a “send-now-pay-later” feature that allows subscribers instant access to funds and a digital debit card that lets subscribers bypass foreign transaction fees.

By Dan Ennis • Sept. 18, 2025

AI commerce portends potential fraud

As payments firms enable agentic AI shopping, secure transactions and safeguards are at the forefront of their initiatives.

By Shefali Kapadia • Sept. 18, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open 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

Earned 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

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

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

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