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 Lynne Marek • July 24, 2025

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 Patrick Cooley • 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.

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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 Patrick Cooley • July 23, 2025

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 Patrick Cooley • July 21, 2025

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

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

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 Patrick Cooley • July 16, 2025

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 Lynne Marek • July 15, 2025

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

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

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 Lynne Marek • July 11, 2025

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

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 Lynne Marek • July 9, 2025

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 Patrick Cooley • July 9, 2025

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 Patrick Cooley • July 8, 2025

Shift4 strategy segues with Global Blue

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

By Patrick Cooley • July 7, 2025

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 Lynne Marek • July 2, 2025

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 Patrick Cooley • July 1, 2025

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 Patrick Cooley • June 30, 2025

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

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

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

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 Patrick Cooley • June 25, 2025

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 Patrick Cooley • June 17, 2025

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 Lynne Marek • June 17, 2025