NCR Atleos Back Cash-Use Law in New York and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 4/10/26
NCR Atleos Corp., a leading ATM and payment‑services provider, announced its support for a new New York law that obligates retailers and food establishments to accept cash for in‑person transactions. The legislation, effective March 21, bars businesses from refusing cash and from imposing higher fees on cash‑paying customers. In a separate development, Nacha, the governing body for the ACH network, named Bottomline Technologies as a Preferred Partner for ACH experience, open‑banking integration, and risk‑fraud solutions. Both moves signal heightened focus on inclusive payment options and infrastructure reliability.
Add Intuit as the Latest FedNow Participant
Intuit has received FedNow certification, enabling QuickBooks and other fintech services to offer real‑time payments through the Federal Reserve’s network. The integration will let customers instantly pay invoices, process payroll, and settle bill payments, cutting the lag inherent in ACH...
Circle Signs Thunes for Its New Managed Payments Platform
Circle Internet Group launched its Circle Payments Network Managed Payments platform, and Singapore‑based Thunes became one of the first participants. The service enables Thunes’ clients to settle transactions in USDC without abandoning existing fiat‑based processes. Circle will generate the stablecoin,...
PayPal Links on Canva and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 4/9/26
PayPal announced that its Payment Links are now available on Canva, allowing creators to accept payments through text, email or social media. At the same time, Adyen introduced Intelligent Money Movement to give global businesses real‑time cash positioning, while Paysafe...
Synthetic Identities And Malicious Bots Boost Fraud Attacks, LexisNexis Says
LexisNexis Risk Solutions reports synthetic‑identity fraud as the fastest‑growing fraud type in 2025, representing 11% of global fraud—a rise eight‑fold from 2024. The surge is driven by criminals using generative AI to craft realistic identities, especially in Latin America, which...
Bluefin Pairs With Agile on a Ticketing Point-of-Sale Service
Bluefin Payment Systems has expanded its partnership with Agile Ticketing Solutions to include the PAX A35 Android point‑of‑sale terminal, adding support for EMV, NFC, magstripe and QR code payments. Agile will also offer the PAX A77 device through Bluefin accounts,...
Helium Acquires Maroo and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 4/8/26
Helium Ventures announced the acquisition of Maroo Inc., a payments platform that serves over 13,000 wedding and event businesses, expanding Helium's reach into a high‑value niche. In parallel, fraud‑prevention firm Fingerprint added AI‑driven recommendations to its Suspect Score service, while...
Outpayce Boosts Travel Companies’ Chargeback Resilience with Riskified Integration
Outpayce announced integration with Riskified, bringing AI‑driven fraud‑prevention and a Chargeback Guarantee to its travel‑focused payments platform. The partnership gives more than 180,000 travel agencies and airline sales offices access to machine‑learning risk models that evaluate hundreds of transaction features....
PAR Intelligence Unveiled and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 4/7/26
PAR Technology Corp. introduced PAR Intelligence, an AI-driven tool designed to uncover profit‑maximizing opportunities for multi‑unit restaurant and retail POS systems. Yuno Technologies rolled out Payments Concierge, an agentic AI service that continuously monitors merchants’ payment stacks for cost and...
Square’s Latest Processing Win Is on the Golf Course
Square’s payments platform is now powering transactions at Golftec’s more than 260 U.S. locations, adding mobile, real‑time and buy‑now‑pay‑later capabilities. The integration has eliminated manual reconciliation, cutting administrative effort by 10,000 hours and saving roughly $100,000 in charge‑back costs. Transactions...
Bybit Launches Send Money in a Bid for Mainstream Users
Bybit, the world’s second‑largest crypto exchange by volume, unveiled a new Send Money feature that lets its 82 million users transfer funds in crypto or fiat to recipients who receive local fiat. The service, powered by Bybit Pay, promises settlement within...
Corpay Unit Sold and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 4/6/26
Corpay Inc. closed the sale of its PayByPhone unit to Lightyear Capital, trimming its 2026 revenue outlook by roughly $75 million while still targeting 10% organic growth in corporate payments. WEX Inc. reported an all‑time high $2.7 billion revenue for 2025, up...
Square Launches an Inventory Management System for Restaurants
Square, the payments arm of Block Inc., has teamed with AI‑driven platform MarketMan to launch a new inventory‑management application for restaurants. The tool offers real‑time visibility of ingredient usage, automated purchase‑order generation, and predictive forecasting based on historical and live...
Famous Labs Taps AI for Speedy E-Commerce Site Building
Famous Labs has launched Famous.ai, an artificial‑intelligence platform that builds complete e‑commerce stores from plain‑language descriptions. The service automatically generates site architecture, design, product pages and integrates native payments through its FamousPay solution. Retailers can choose a traditional website, a...
Chime Unveils Chime Prime and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 4/3/26
Chime Financial introduced Chime Prime, a rewards platform that offers 5% cash back on select card purchases for customers who maintain at least $3,000 in monthly direct deposits. UnionPay announced an open protocol framework enabling AI agents to initiate payments,...
How Block Is Bringing Installments to Cash App
Block announced that Cash App will offer a buy‑now‑pay‑later (BNPL) installment product to its U.S. user base. The service provides instant credit decisions, allowing purchases to be split into equal weekly payments with interest only on the remaining balance. Integration...
A Year Into VAMP, Visa Issues New Dispute Resolution Tools
Visa has launched six AI‑enhanced dispute‑resolution services, marking the first major update since the Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) went live. VAMP consolidates five fraud programs into one, with enrollment triggered when a merchant’s chargeback ratio exceeds 1.5% or an...
As It Gains Altitude, Crypto Adopts Partners, Cash Back, and Investors
Convera USA announced a partnership with Ripple to embed stablecoin‑based payment and treasury solutions into its B2B platform, responding to growing client demand for digital assets. Simultaneously, Kraken rolled out a cash‑back program offering up to 2% and a travel‑reward...
Wirex Teams With Crossmint to Enable Easier Spending Via Stablecoins
Wirex has deepened its partnership with Crossmint to fuse its card‑issuance platform with Crossmint’s smart‑wallet and stablecoin‑orchestration layer. The integration lets fintechs and consumers spend stablecoins directly from digital wallets without juggling separate wallet and card providers. Crossmint will manage...
Zelle Renews Its Outreach to Minority Deposit Institutions
Zelle is renewing its outreach to minority deposit institutions by expanding partnerships with Velera and Jack Henry, making integration easier for community banks and credit unions. A survey of 250 banking executives shows 99% feel pressure to move money faster,...
Embedding Payments for Growth: How ISVs Can Scale Through Vertical Focus and Partnerships
Embedded finance, also called embedded commerce or integrated payments, is reshaping how Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) deliver value, with the market projected to grow from $85.8 billion in 2026 to $370.9 billion by 2036 – a 15.8% CAGR. ISVs that adopt a...
Its Intense Focus on Blockchain Opens Opportunities for BTCS
Blockchain Technology Consensus Solutions Inc. (BTCS) reported a near four‑fold increase in blockchain revenue for 2025, reaching $15.2 million and total revenue of $16.5 million, up 305% from 2024. The growth was driven by an Ethereum‑first strategy, expansion of its Builder+ platform,...
Square Signs Steak Escape and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 3/27/26
Block Inc.'s Square unit will outfit Steak Escape’s 23 locations with POS terminals, kiosks and kitchen-display systems, extending its fast‑food footprint. Visa partnered with Pinwheel to launch an Enhanced Subscription Manager, aiming to help consumers track the projected 12 billion global...
Bluefin Launches BluePOS, Aimed at PAX Devices
Bluefin Payment System launched BluePOS, a new payment application built on its PayConex gateway for Android point‑of‑sale devices from PAX Technology. The software handles core transaction functions—authorizations, refunds, voids, tipping, receipts and contactless payments—while allowing Bluefin to develop and update...
How Top U.S. Acquirers Ranking Changed Following Acquisitions
Global Payments has seized the top spot in the 2026 TSG U.S. merchant acquirer ranking, driven by its $24.5 billion acquisition of Worldpay. The deal adds roughly $1.9 trillion of processing volume, lifting Global’s estimated 2025 volume to $2.8 trillion and pushing JPMorgan...
How Adding Send for Instant Payments Spawned Good Surprises for BofA
Bank of America launched real‑time payment sending in March 2024, following its receipt‑only capability introduced in November 2018. The bank’s smart, future‑proof design allowed it to add the send function without cannibalizing its $1.9 trillion‑daily wire transfer volume. Industry forecasts suggest...
Feedzai Unveils RiskFM, Aimed at a Frustrating Plague of Financial Fraud
Feedzai has launched RiskFM, a fraud‑prevention platform that moves beyond sole reliance on card‑network data by incorporating customer onboarding, payments and broader digital activity. The solution processes roughly $9 trillion in global payments across 120 billion events each year. Early testing is...
13 Years on, Surcharging Remains Complex for Acquirers
Thirteen years after merchants gained permission to surcharge credit‑card transactions, the practice remains tangled in divergent rules from card networks and state regulators. Visa limits surcharges to 3% while Mastercard allows up to 4% but typically mirrors Visa’s cap, and...
A New Connection Lets PayPal Open Venmo to International Transfers
PayPal has linked its Venmo service with its global PayPal network, enabling Venmo users to send and receive money in 90 countries. The integration comes with a promotional waiver of international transfer fees through August 24, 2026. PayPal says the move...
AI’s $500 Billion Retail Bump and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 3/23/26
AI-driven retail solutions are projected to generate an additional $500 billion in transaction volume by 2030, according to Manhattan Associates’ Global Unified Commerce Benchmark. Zero Gravity Labs introduced blockchain‑spawned AI agents, challenging the autonomy of centralized platforms. Accenture invested in DaVinci...
Businesses Are Struggling to Combat AI-Based Fraud, a Study Finds
A Darwinium study of 500 senior executives reveals that 97% of businesses have seen a rise in AI‑driven fraud over the past year, with 45% attributing attacks to advanced fraud‑as‑a‑service platforms. While 95% now list agentic AI among their top...
KuCoin’s Visa-Branded KuCard and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 3/20/26
KuCoin unveiled a Tomorrowland‑limited edition Visa KuCard, marking another foray of crypto platforms into mainstream payment cards. Glia integrated MessagePay’s loan‑payment technology to streamline digital interactions for community banks, while Fastboy announced a connection between its BambooPay gateway and Visa’s...
Square’s Latest Deals Show Its POS Directions As It Seeks More Merchants
Square announced two strategic partnerships: Chicago seafood retailer The Fish Guy adopted an e‑commerce service powered by eGrowcery and linked to Square's payments platform, while Australian chain The Pancake Parlor migrated its fractured tech stack to Square's POS in just...
Combatants in the Fight to Overturn Illinois’s Interchange Law Gear Up for an Appeals Battle
Three banking‑industry groups and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency filed amicus briefs urging the appellate court to overturn Illinois’s Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (IFPA) exemption. The IFPA, set to take effect July 1, shields Illinois merchants from interchange...
Shift4 Adds AI Ordering to Its SkyTab POS System
Shift4 Payments has partnered with Maple AI to embed the startup’s AI‑driven phone‑ordering system into its SkyTab POS platform. The integration pulls live menu data from SkyTab, routes orders directly to kitchen displays and receipt printers, and supports payments, reservations...
Nayax Scores Another EV Payment Processing Win
Israel‑based payments firm Nayax announced a new partnership with E‑Plug to handle payment processing at an estimated 2,200 charging stations across the United States. The deal follows recent collaborations, including a January agreement with Autel Energy to embed Nayax technology...
Consumers Spend More When Payments Are Frictionless, an NMI Study Finds
A new NMI study of 1,000 U.S. adults shows that frictionless payments boost both purchase frequency and spend. Half of respondents say they shop more often when checkout feels seamless, and 48% admit to spending more at the point of...
Eye on POS: Restolabs Conversions Are a Bump for Restaurants; Finix Launches a Checkout App and Reader
Restolabs, a New York‑based online‑ordering platform, has rolled out a bundled POS solution aimed at independent restaurants, promising higher online conversion rates through features such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, upsell prompts, and streamlined menus. The service is priced between...
BHMI’s Canada Debit Improvements and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 3/13/26
BHMI announced new capabilities for Canadian debit processing within its Concourse Financial Software Suite, enhancing settlement, reconciliation, dispute management, and reporting. Indiana became the first U.S. state to ban cryptocurrency kiosks, citing massive fraud losses from roughly 900 machines. The...
Eye on Acquiring: CardFlight Debuts SwipeSimple Marketplace; Aurora Payments To Use Jaris Onboarding Service
CardFlight announced the SwipeSimple App Marketplace, debuting March 16 with three curated applications—QuickBooks Online Sync, Appointments scheduling, and Text Loyalty & Reviews—available to its more than 125,000 merchants. The marketplace aims to embed accounting, booking, and loyalty tools directly into...
Zelle and BofA Team up and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 3/12/26
Zelle has partnered with Bank of America to route charitable disbursements from donor‑advised funds through its network, delivering near‑real‑time grant payments to nonprofits. ACI Worldwide reports only 26% of bill‑pay platforms consider themselves future‑ready, though 80% view the technology as...
UATP Teams With Hands In on a Split Funding Service for Travel
Airlines can now offer travelers a split‑payment option through a new partnership between UATP and Hands In. The integration embeds Hands In’s split‑payment code into UATP’s Ceptor platform, letting customers combine multiple cards, debit accounts, or payors at checkout while...
ICBA Adds Jack Henry to Preferred Program and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 3/9/26
Jack Henry & Associates’ anti‑fraud solution, Financial Crimes Defender, has been added to the Independent Community Bankers of America’s Preferred Service Provider program. Affiniti Finance secured a financing agreement with Column N.A. to accelerate its corporate‑card and banking services for...
Alchemy Pay Gets License and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 3/6/26
Alchemy Pay announced it secured a money‑transmitter license in Delaware, marking its 15th U.S. state approval. Strike also received both a BitLicense and a money‑transmitter license from New York, expanding its regulated crypto services. Meanwhile, Cinnaholic returned to Square’s point‑of‑sale...
The Top 50 Originators Account for 91% of Total ACH Commercial Payments Volume, Nacha Says
Nacha reports that the top 50 ACH originators processed 30.7 billion payments in 2025, representing 91.4% of commercial ACH volume, while the top 50 receivers handled 23 billion payments, accounting for 65.1% of total flow. Wells Fargo led originations with 8.7 billion payments, and...
Pilot Turns to NCR Voyix in a POS Modernization Move
Pilot Travel Centers, operating over 900 locations across North America, has signed a five‑year exclusive agreement to deploy NCR Voyix’s point‑of‑sale and fuel technology at every site. The move expands an existing partnership and aims to modernize Pilot’s tech stack,...
Paysafe Touts a New Wallet And Agentic Commerce As It Navigates 2026
Paysafe reported mixed Q4 2025 results, posting a $25.2 million net loss despite 4% revenue growth to $438.4 million and a 10% rise in transaction volume to $43.9 billion. The company highlighted its new Paysafe Wallet, now available in 18 countries with 500,000 users...
Eye on Crypto: N3XT Partners With YouHodler; Barclays Eyes a Blockchain
N3XT Inc., a blockchain‑powered narrow bank, has teamed up with Web3 lender YouHodler to connect its regulated USD Coin settlement infrastructure with the platform’s crypto‑collateral services. The collaboration will extend instant, programmable stablecoin payments to institutional clients across Europe and Argentina,...
Eye on Acquisitions: Bitcoin Depot Acquires Kutt; ECI Software Boosts Embedded Payments
Bitcoin Depot Inc., the leading cryptocurrency ATM operator, announced the acquisition of Kutt, a peer‑to‑peer social‑betting platform, to broaden its product portfolio beyond crypto kiosks. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed, and Kutt will continue operating under its own...
Ziosk Partners with Gringo’s Tex-Mex and Jimmy Changas; Qu POS Lands Roy Rogers Restaurants
Ziosk is deploying its Drop & Pay handheld payment tablets at Gringo’s Tex-Mex and Jimmy Changas, covering 21 Texas locations and delivering a 96% pay‑at‑table rate, a 23% lift in loyalty participation, and 45% higher guest‑survey engagement. The platform also...