1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (164+ words) PYMNTS.com The Hidden Cost of Checkout Gaps: What 56 Million Abandoned Carts Mean for U.S. Merchants and How Agentic AI is Changing What Comes Next They’ve picked the product and are ready to pay. Then their preferred digital wallet is missing,…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (228+ words) Apple’s upcoming mobile operating system, iOS 27, will enable users to redeem Apple gift cards by tapping them on a compatible iPhone, MacRumors reported Wednesday (Sept. 9). The iPhone will scan a security chip in Apple’s gift cards to verify that the…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (759+ words) Amazon.com is pushing back against New Jersey’s effort to accelerate evidence gathering in an antitrust lawsuit targeting the company’s delivery network, arguing that the dispute raises labor issues that should be handled by the National Labor Relations Board. The…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (318+ words) Mastercard is expanding one agentic AI offering for merchants while introducing another. The payments giant on Wednesday (Sept. 9) announced it had updated its Mastercard Agent Suite for Merchants, which lets businesses bring “agent-powered shopping experiences” into their eCommerce platforms. “Consumers…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (217+ words) The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with payment processing company Humboldt Merchant Services that will see Humboldt pay $12 million and be permanently banned from processing payments for merchants with a heightened risk of potential fraud, the agency said in…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (163+ words) Anthropic is evaluating which parts of its billing, payments, fraud and tax infrastructure to build in-house, cutting its reliance on Stripe. The company’s revenue jumped to more than $11.5 billion last quarter, up from $787 million a year earlier, growth fast enough…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (419+ words) ACI Worldwide has agreed to acquire Cranium Ventures, a privately held developer of cloud-native card payment switching technology, as it seeks to expand its card-processing capabilities. The Omaha, Nebraska, payments technology company said Tuesday (Sept. 1) in a press release that…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (616+ words) Amazon is moving fraud prevention upstream. Its new Alexa verification feature helps shoppers authenticate suspicious emails, texts and calls before they click, share credentials or send money. Walmart is connecting fraud signals across the shopping journey. By linking identity, transaction,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (794+ words) Cross-border payments are moving toward links among domestic and regional systems as attention moves beyond domestic transaction speed. Tokenized finance is raising practical questions about 24/7 central-bank settlement and where banks hold the liquidity to support it. A financial market that…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (599+ words) Deals are putting a premium on payments already embedded in business workflows, rather than processing capability alone. Buyers are approaching the opportunity from different directions, as banks want closer access to commercial payment flows, while processors and infrastructure providers are…...