Visa, Mastercard vie for Treasury role

The two biggest card networks bid for a piece of the Treasury Department’s program seeking to modernize the U.S. payments system.

By Lynne Marek • July 9, 2025

FICO reporting could stunt BNPL

If buy now, pay later firms know when consumers borrow heavily or fail to make repayments, providers may be reluctant to offer their payment services to so many consumers.

By Patrick Cooley • July 9, 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

Warren demands Zelle scam update

In letters to Zelle’s bank owners, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and two other Democrats asked what the financial institutions are doing to protect customers using the digital payments service.

By Patrick Cooley • July 8, 2025

Trump imposes new remittance tax

The spending and tax bill signed by President Donald Trump includes a new levy on international money transfers, though it’s lower than initially proposed.

By Lynne Marek • July 8, 2025

Wegmans tests smart carts

The grocer is trying out technology from two providers, including Instacart’s Caper Carts that let shoppers pay directly from the cart.

By Catherine Douglas Moran • July 8, 2025

DailyPay lands novel funding

The on-demand pay company sourced $200 million from Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Citi through an asset-based securitization to accelerate growth.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • July 7, 2025

Shift4 strategy segues with Global Blue

The deal is a departure from the company’s typical blueprint for acquisitions, according to analysts.

By Patrick Cooley • July 7, 2025

Balance, Alibaba team on BNPL for biz clients

Small and mid-sized businesses can now use Balance’s buy now, pay later financing on the global e-commerce marketplace. 

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • July 2, 2025

Processors lean on AI to fight fraud

Payments players are urging Washington policymakers to leave artificial intelligence less regulated so they can use it to fight fraud.

By Lynne Marek • July 2, 2025

Small business isn’t quitting checks

The paper check will persist for decades for small companies, despite the growth of digital payments, BillGO’s CEO predicts.

By Justin Bachman • July 1, 2025

Early Warning pitches Zelle to Treasury

The company that owns the peer-to-peer service Zelle suggested the U.S. Treasury Department use that tool to replace checks with digital payments.

By Patrick Cooley • July 1, 2025

Affirm delves into in-game payments

The buy now, pay later player is for the first time partnering with a company that provides in-game payment services to video game developers.

By Patrick Cooley • June 30, 2025

Payments firms switch up CFOs

ACI Worldwide, Bill and Corpay lured chief financial officers from other companies this month as the health of the U.S. economy wavers.

By Lynne Marek • June 30, 2025

Visa, FIS boost value-added card services

The companies say they aim to strengthen tech tools available for smaller financial institutions in issuing cards.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • June 30, 2025

TreviPay CEO fears fraud ‘AI arms race’

The payments and invoicing firm’s chief, Brandon Spear, sees artificial intelligence as “transformational” in its capacity to scale business scams.

By Justin Bachman • June 27, 2025

Stablecoins may act as finance bridge

Stablecoins are like “another payment rail,” said Vince Tejada, who heads treasury and strategic finance at stablecoin infrastructure provider Bastion.

By Grace Noto • June 26, 2025

Payments firms pursue top talent

Companies developing digital wallets, cryptocurrency strategies and pay later tools are still seeking top talent despite economic turmoil, recruiters say.

By Lynne Marek • June 26, 2025

Payments conferences yet to come in 2025

Artificial intelligence, FedNow and the ISO 20022 standards are expected to be hot topics at this year’s payments conferences.

By Shefali Kapadia • Updated June 26, 2025

FedNow delivers new risk management tools

Alongside those instant payment security features, the Federal Reserve increased the maximum payment that can be sent over the real-time system to $1 million.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • June 26, 2025

Melio swallowed in $2.5B deal

The New York bill-pay company is set to be acquired by Xero, a New Zealand provider of accounting and payroll management software for small businesses.

By Lynne Marek • June 25, 2025

Stablecoins may push aside payments

Digital assets have the power to “disintermediate” the financial system by bypassing traditional payment rails, according to a Deloitte report.

By Patrick Cooley • June 25, 2025

Klarna, Google join forces

The Swedish buy now, pay later business integrated its payments tool into the search giant’s digital wallet, making its services more widely available.

By Patrick Cooley • June 24, 2025

Fiserv launches new stablecoin

The payments processor wants to be an early mover as banks, the U.S. government and other payments players press for stablecoin adoption.

By Justin Bachman • June 23, 2025

Tensec raises $12M to boost growth

Meanwhile, other cross-border payment firms have raised millions in recent weeks to bolster their international expansion.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • June 20, 2025

Don’t make Americans pay to pass financial data

“Pausing or gutting Rule 1033 wouldn’t just stall innovation,” writes one industry executive who has international perspective. “It would send a message that the system works best when it’s closed.”

By Jamie Twiss • June 20, 2025