Mastercard, Ericsson craft payment tools

The payments provider and telecom company are teaming up to offer more payments capabilities to businesses in the Middle East and Africa.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 23, 2026

Klarna pursues more banking customers

The company is targeting more long-term loan and debit card customers as an avenue for growth as it tries to curtail losses.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 20, 2026

Explore the Trendline➔

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

How to hire Uber without a phone

Payments processor Adyen and rideshare pioneer Uber are installing kiosks at airports and hotels for travelers without the app (or those with a dead phone).

By Justin Bachman • Feb. 20, 2026

Visa to buy Prisma in Argentina

The card network company is buying the card processing and real-time payments assets as it expands its reach in South America.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 19, 2026

Remitly co-founder CEO exits

Matt Oppenheimer, who has been CEO of the remittance provider for nearly 15 years, will become the board’s chair, with former Santander executive Sebastian Gunningham becoming CEO.

By Dan Ennis • Feb. 19, 2026

Global Payments builds salesforce

The payments processor plans to hire hundreds of additional sales agents this year as it builds on its acquisition of Worldpay.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 18, 2026

Sezzle adds phone service offer

The new plans will be available at cheaper rates for Sezzle subscribers, as the BNPL provider seeks to grow its subscription business.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 18, 2026

Stripe’s Bridge wins OCC conditional approval

The nod for a national trust bank charter comes after digital-asset firms Circle, Ripple and Paxos received a similar green light.

By Dan Ennis • Feb. 18, 2026

How stablecoins are finding a foothold

The digital currency’s earliest use cases are focused mostly on cross-border payments and peer-to-peer remittances.

By Justin Bachman • Feb. 17, 2026

Affirm partnerships target growth

The company’s latest collaborations are aimed at branching out into more sectors of the economy, consultants and analysts say.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 17, 2026

4 steps to building your own fintech

Go from payments to full-suite fintech: four proven steps to master your embedded finance journey.

Feb. 17, 2026

Why virtual cards can be safer than plastic

Many companies are swapping plastic payment cards for virtual because they’re less prone to fraud, Boost Payments Chief Revenue Officer Seth Goodman said.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 13, 2026

Cash App debuts payment links

After PayPal debuted a similar feature last year, Cash App also wants to simplify payment requests for users.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 12, 2026

Cash App to sell its credit score

Block on Thursday opened up a waitlist for companies that want to access deeper insights from its Cash App consumer scoring.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 12, 2026

Bill weighs the best path to profits

Business payments company Bill Holdings is mulling a sale, according to a media report, as recent B2B fintech deals show ample buyer interest.

By Justin Bachman • Feb. 12, 2026

JPMorgan, Nacha to share data via blockchain

The companies aim to simplify the account verification process for JPMorgan Chase customers.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 11, 2026

Fiserv struggles with financial business

Revenue in the company’s financial services and banking sectors fell year-over-year, which executives attributed to market share loss among credit unions.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 10, 2026

Payoneer CFO eyes stablecoin, AI innovation

Bea Ordonez said the payments company is focused on expanding its core ecosystem, strengthening partnerships, and building out strategies for stablecoin and AI.

By Grace Noto • Feb. 9, 2026

Block to chop up to 10% of employees

The company is reducing its workforce to trim overhead costs and stay below a 12,000 employee cap, analysts said.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 9, 2026

How to fix subscription pay friction

What can a subscription-based company do when a customer hasn’t canceled but their payment fails? Butter has an algorithmic fix.

By Justin Bachman • Feb. 6, 2026

Zip debuts pay-in-2 option

The buy now, pay later company on Wednesday started letting U.S. customers split everyday payments in half, rather than into four installments.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 6, 2026

Visa, Amex vie for small businesses

The card networks are each pitching new services to mom-and-pop stores, including financing options as well as tools for expense management and fraud mitigation.

By Patrick Cooley • Feb. 5, 2026

Spire names new CEO to grow pay-by-bank

The company hired former Fiserv executive Jennifer LaClair and raised $10 million to expand services enabling consumers to make direct payments from their bank accounts to merchants.

By Justin Bachman • Feb. 5, 2026

Modernizing payments is essential

“The shift toward a 24/7 payments ecosystem is inevitable...organizations that are prepared to support instant payments will have a distinct competitive advantage,” writes one industry executive.

By Mihail Duta • Feb. 5, 2026

What went wrong at PayPal

Slow merchant adoption of the digital payment pioneer’s latest technology and lagging growth of its legacy checkout services stymied growth plans.

By Lynne Marek • Feb. 4, 2026