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    Corpay to buy Alpha Group, sell vehicle units

    The commercial card and expense management company plans to buy the British cross-border firm in a $2.2 billion deal, as it considers divestures.

    By July 24, 2025
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    Fiserv revenue forecast dims

    The payments processor offered a less rosy outlook as executives took some blame for second-quarter revenue growth being lower than analysts expected. It also agreed to buy a TD Bank portfolio.

    By July 24, 2025
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    Payments industry seeks to keep pace with fraudsters

    As losses from fraud in payments have climbed, companies are seeking new tools to combat illicit schemes.

    By Payments Dive staff
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    Block agrees to $12.5M settlement in Cash App spam text case

    A class action alleged the company let users send spam messages to other users in violation of a Washington state law.

    By July 23, 2025
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    Stablecoins emerge as alternative: Amex CEO

    While the digital assets likely won’t replace ACH and SWIFT, they are a viable way to send money in lieu of those rails, Steve Squeri said.

    By July 21, 2025
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    Payments in the age of VAMP

    There are changes coming to the way Visa monitors fraud and chargebacks. VAMP is the new standard coming to payments — and Inovio has solutions to prepare merchants.

    By Shane Estes, VP of Sales and General Operations, Inovio by North • July 21, 2025
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    Mastercard, Visa play down stablecoin threat

    The giant card networks are sifting through the opportunities and threats that stablecoins present for their businesses.

    By Lynne Marek • July 17, 2025
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    Why small banks may shun Zelle

    The peer-to-peer payment network charges comparatively higher transaction rates, but also offers the potential for new customers, consultants say.

    By July 16, 2025
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    Fedwire makes ISO leap

    The Federal Reserve shifted payments for the Fedwire Funds Service to a new international standard this week without any reported glitches.

    By July 15, 2025
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    6 takeaways from the Senate’s crypto market structure hearing

    Senators largely agreed on the need for regulation, but differed on the potential focus and framing of such a bill.

    By Gabrielle Saulsbery • July 14, 2025
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    The hidden costs in your payment stack

    Lowering fees won’t fix your payments problem. Reducing friction will.

    By Anne Hay, EVP, Chief Marketing Officer • July 14, 2025
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    Fed’s ISO ‘big bang’ hits

    The Federal Reserve’s shift of trillions of dollars in payments to the new ISO 20022 standard Monday will reverberate around the world.

    By July 11, 2025
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    HUD studies BNPL housing risks

    U.S. regulators want to learn more about how buy now, pay later loans may affect borrowers’ finances and housing market stability.

    By Justin Bachman • July 11, 2025
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    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 July 9, 2025
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    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 July 9, 2025
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    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 July 8, 2025
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    Shift4 strategy segues with Global Blue

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

    By July 7, 2025
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    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 July 2, 2025
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    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 July 1, 2025
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    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 June 30, 2025
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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 June 25, 2025
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    Amex, Fiserv cite inflation benefit

    “Modest” price increases benefit card and payment companies as long as the economy doesn’t trip into a recession, executives say.

    By June 17, 2025
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    Federal Reserve targets fraud

    Federal agencies took aim at payments fraud Monday, proposing more collaboration, including with states, to combat the rising problem, especially with respect to paper checks.

    By June 17, 2025