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    Block opens Dublin office

    The location, announced Thursday, will include a demonstration lab to show off products to potential European customers.

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    Embedded finance to ‘explode’: panel

    Tucking financial services, like payments, into a broader range of consumer situations is about to take off, bank executives said Thursday.

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    Bot payments lag in agentic commerce

    Within the emerging world of agentic commerce, a broad gap exists between bot shopping and autonomous payments.

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    Mastercard reworks Cap One pact

    The card network's CEO said the company signed a new agreement with Capital One, reaffirming ties despite the bank’s purchase of rival Discover.

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    Fiserv sued over alleged lax security

    A Tampa credit union alleged that the processor failed to protect customers from cyber hacks, but charged extra fees for a security upgrade.

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    Charting 2026 payments trends

    Here are 4 stories that round up our deep dive outlook for this year, including coverage of agentic payments, fraud and personalization.

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    Amazon to halt palm payments

    The online retailer said all Amazon One palm readers will be removed from physical stores by June 3.

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    State legislatures mull remittance restrictions

    Battle lines are being drawn in Florida and Missouri over legislation that would bar money transfer firms from servicing “unauthorized aliens.”

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    Zelle network expands by 15%

    Most of the 337 banks that were added to the network last year were small community banks and credit unions.

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    DailyPay seeks to dismiss NY lawsuit

    The earned wage access provider and MoneyLion cited a federal agency opinion last month in asking judges Friday to dismiss the New York AG’s complaints.

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    Credit card delinquencies drop, says Fed bank

    The decline happened even as U.S. consumers spent more on their credit cards, data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia shows.

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    Secret Service foils card skimmers

    The federal agency last year identified and deactivated some 400 illegal card reader inserts in major U.S. cities.

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    Payment outages cost $44B in lost sales annually

    Payment issues can cause companies to take heavy losses as impatient customers abandon their online and in-store purchases, a new report estimates.

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    Brex CFO Erica Dorfman’s take on the Capital One deal

    In a rare look inside a major fintech transaction, Dorfman describes the speed, scale and boardroom logic that led Brex to Capital One.

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    How payment personalization could change the way we pay

    The emerging trend will require payment companies to jockey for position in payment suggestions offered by agentic shopping tools.

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    Microsoft backs court injunction against Google

    By contrast, Epic Games and Google are seeking changes to the court order so they can move forward with a settlement to end five years of Android app litigation.

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    Capital One nabs Brex for $5.15B

    The deal, expected to close in mid-2026, lets the bank absorb a fintech player that specializes in corporate cards, payments and expense-management tools.

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    Affirm seeks Nevada bank charter

    The company said Friday that it submitted applications to state and federal regulators to start Affirm Bank.

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    Verifone tackles identity challenge

    The company seeks to bring the benefits of digital shopping, particularly in consumer identification, to the in-person retail world.

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    JPMorgan CEO mocks card rate cap idea

    The government should impose a 10% credit card interest rate freeze in Massachusetts and Vermont as an experiment, CEO Jamie Dimon said.

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    PayPal buys Israeli AI firm

    The digital payments pioneer said it purchased Cymbio, a company that has been a partner in providing multi-channel orchestration services.

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    Why Shift4 targets big merchants

    The processor’s CEO explained why the payment processor looks for merchant customers with multiple locations or vendors with complex software needs.

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    Payments fraud risks burgeon with AI

    The artificial intelligence threats are mounting, but so are the defenses, as new industry trends take hold, from agentic commerce to passkey adoption.

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    Wyoming has big plans for stablecoin

    The first state-issued stable token is being deployed to reduce card interchange costs and simplify payments to vendors.

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    Klarna to offer after-purchase BNPL

    Shoppers will be able to convert purchases into installment loans after the transaction, the company said Tuesday.