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    Stripe swallows Parafin

    The mega processor is buying an embedded financing company that caters to small businesses, in its second acquisition in as many months.

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    Will Europe unseat Visa, Mastercard?

    The Wero project launched by European banks is making progress in challenging the card networks’ dominance on the continent, but the U.S. companies still have an edge, one firm’s analysts contend.

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    AI shopping agents need receipts

    As artificial intelligence assumes a bigger role in commerce and finances, having a clear record of agents’ actions is critical, executives said.

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    Circle CFO to step down

    Finance chief Jeremy Fox-Geen will leave the stablecoin issuer later this year, after ushering the company through its long-awaited 2025 IPO.

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    FedNow tiptoes into cross-border

    The Federal Reserve is inching toward adding some sort of cross-border capability to FedNow, but it’s not clear when or how.

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    Apple lawsuit becomes class action

    The tech giant could face claims from thousands of card issuers that paid Apple Pay fees for payments made via Apple’s devices as part of a California lawsuit.

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    Senate passes Common Cents bill

    The measure to provide merchants a cash rounding framework, and to formally phase out the penny, now heads to the White House.

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    Stripe alums spark new payments plays

    The digital processor has become a founders’ factory with former employees seeding startups across the financial technology field.

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    Payment revenue growth to slow

    The rate of payments-related revenue growth in North America, and globally, will slow in the next four years, a major consulting firm predicts.

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    Fed proposes stablecoin rules

    The regulations aim to make these digital assets “foster payments improvements that benefit households and businesses,” Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr said.

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    FIDO wrestles with agentic trust

    The industry consortium and payments players are considering standards for agentic commerce, particularly for verifying identity.

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    Kroger’s AI focus is on ‘flexibility and control’

    From bridging the digital and physical shopping worlds to further ramping effective personalization, the grocer’s chief digital officer delved into the company’s priorities.

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    ACH use rises for B2B payments

    The automated clearing house payments have multiplied to overtake paper checks as the most popular form of business-to-business payments, according to a new Federal Reserve report.

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    Moov adds P2P competition

    Using Mastercard and Visa’s digital infrastructure, the tool facilitates peer-to-peer payments without requiring both parties to have the same app.

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    Adyen snaps up Klarna CFO

    The Dutch digital payments processor has hired Niclas Neglen as its new chief financial officer, but he won’t join until next year.

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    How digital IDs may battle fraud

    Americans are vulnerable to identification and payment frauds because the U.S. has been slow to adopt digital identification, two Congress members said.

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    Amazon blocks Meta’s AI shopper

    The e-commerce giant said Meta had failed to notify it about the Muse agent accessing its retail site to make purchases on behalf of consumers.

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    Ramp tackles accounts receivable

    “Finance teams today spend too much time chasing payments for outstanding invoices,” Ramp’s chief product officer said.

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    Pentair picks up ex-Fiserv CFO

    Former Fiserv CFO Bob Hau is stepping into Pentair’s top finance seat as it seeks to close a $1.4 billion acquisition of Taco Group.

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    Merchants call card-fee pact unconstitutional

    Walmart and other retailers argue that forcing them to stay in a swipe-fee settlement class violates their due process rights.

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    PayCompass, Simpay and Exectras come together

    The three payments companies have formed a new processing venture that also sells healthcare services to merchants.

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    Cross-border contest heats up

    Technological innovation has enabled fintechs to carve out a beachhead in cross-border payments, but banks still have cards to play.

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    Mastercard, Google push past passwords

    The card network and the tech titan aim to reduce the need for one-time passwords and catalyze more use of biometric payments.

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    Toast aims to scale drive-thru AI

    The artificial intelligence company Presto is joining the point-of-sale firm’s ecosystem, seeking to ease restaurants’ use of a voice-order tool.

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    FleetCor enters $100M settlement

    The fuel card company, now known as Corpay, and its CEO agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission $100 million to settle an action over fees.