The Illinois IFPA Implementation Date Is Extended Again
Illinois’ Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, which would ban interchange fees on sales‑tax and tip transactions, has been delayed again. The new implementation date is July 1, 2027, pushed back a year by a budget amendment signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker. The postponement follows criticism that the law was flawed from the start and recent OCC moves to preempt it for national banks. Stakeholders from credit unions to merchant groups remain divided on the act’s ultimate impact.
Accertify’s Predictive Yes Platform Aims to Meet Fraud Before the Transaction
Accertify has unveiled its Predictive Yes Platform, a fraud‑prevention solution that evaluates identity, behavioral, historical and purchase signals throughout the entire customer lifecycle. The system draws on more than 10 billion transactions—representing roughly $1.25 trillion in value—from May 2025 to April 2026, using a...
Rego Updates Family Wallet Platform and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 5/29/26
Rego Payment Architectures rolled out an upgrade to its Family Wallet platform, giving parents direct control over children’s accounts. Fresha announced expanded Marketplace capabilities aimed at boosting client connections for beauty and wellness providers. Bilt disclosed a new partnership with...
Digital Debit Card Use Surged in the First Quarter, a Galileo Report Finds
Galileo’s inaugural Debit Spend Index shows debit card usage climbing sharply in Q1 2026. Restaurant transactions rose more than 18%, while saved‑card purchases grew to 24% of all debit activity and posted an average ticket of $61.23, 65% higher than...
Maxio Adds Surcharging and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 5/27/26
Maxio LLC announced that its Maxio Payments platform now supports credit‑card surcharging, giving B2B merchants a new tool to offset processing fees. In parallel, Ordr and FreedomPay are building a joint gateway for live‑entertainment commerce, while NCR Voyix is adding...
Crypto Tech Expands With Moves by Mesh And Miracle Pay
Mesh, a six‑year‑old crypto network, is expanding its integration with Coinbase‑built Base to let enterprises settle transactions in stablecoins or local fiat across hundreds of wallets and platforms. The move follows Mesh’s recent partnerships with Circle and the launch of...
Marqeta’s European Expansion and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 5/26/26
U.S. card‑issuing platform Marqeta announced it is now offering account opening and money‑movement capabilities across 30 additional European countries through a partnership with Banking Circle. Canadian rent‑payment specialist Yardi is adding rent‑splitting and reporting features to its RentCafe portal via...
IVR Payments Adopted by The Storage Center and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 5/22/26
Self Storage Manager Inc. launched its Dynamic IVR Payment Solution at The Storage Center, covering more than 60,000 units across 70 facilities in six states. NCR Atleos expanded its CashZone ATM network into Colombia, extending its reach to 14 countries....
Lightspeed Segment Revenue Rises as It Narrows Its Loss; MagTek Eases Kiosk Integration with Cutflow
Lightspeed Commerce added about 3,200 new locations in its fiscal fourth quarter, bringing total sites to 97,000—a rise of 11 % year‑over‑year. The company’s U.S. retail and European hospitality focus generated 21 % revenue growth, with transaction revenue up 16.9 % and subscription...
Square Picks up Well-Known Restaurant Chain The Hat; 33% of C-Store Operators Manage Four or More POS Terminals
Square, the POS arm of Block Inc., added the Southern‑California restaurant chain The Hat to its roster, deploying Square for Restaurants, Square Register, and Square Marketing across all 11 locations—including a new Las Vegas site—by March. The rollout follows a...
Klarna Offers a Shopping Search App As BNPL Rivalry Grows
Klarna, holding roughly 35% of the global BNPL market and serving about 43 million U.S. users, launched the Klarna Shopping Search app integrated with ChatGPT. The AI‑driven tool taps a Klarna server that indexes roughly 100 million products and 400 million merchant listings,...
Plaid’s Payment Assurance and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 5/20/26
Plaid introduced Plaid Guaranteed Payments, a real‑time bank payment service that approves transactions in milliseconds and backs settlement, covering losses on failures. Devenex launched a platform to govern AI agents in online commerce, while Fireblocks unveiled an Agentic Payments Suite...
Eye on Fraud: Mastercard Merchant Trust Services Debuts; Darwinium Takes on Remote Access Scams
Mastercard introduced Merchant Trust Services, a new fraud‑prevention offering that leverages its network‑wide intelligence to screen merchants during onboarding and ongoing monitoring. The program obliges acquirers and payment facilitators to investigate any risk indicator within 72 hours and block confirmed...
NMI’s Latest Deal Snags A2A Platform Dwolla
Network Merchants Inc. (NMI) announced the acquisition of Dwolla, a payments‑acceptance platform specializing in real‑time, account‑to‑account (A2A) processing. The deal, NMI’s sixth since 2021, adds roughly 400 Dwolla merchants and lifts the combined entity’s annual transaction volume to about $700 billion....
Eye on Acquiring: Finix Adds an Unattended POS Terminal; Deluxe Checks in at Dollar Bank
Finix Payments unveiled an Android‑based unattended POS terminal aimed at self‑service kiosks in retail and hospitality, featuring universal payment acceptance including dipped and contactless options. The device runs the Finix Payment App on a familiar touchscreen interface, targeting businesses that...