Thursday , February 12, 2026

Debit Cards

Blackhawk’s EV and Grocery Cards and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/14/26

Payments and rewards platform Blackhawk Network said it will issue two Mastercard-branded products: the Drive Prepaid Card, aimed at EV adoption programs, test drive incentives, and other programs related to automobiles; and the Grocery Prepaid Card, meant for cost relief. Polygon Labs, a blockchain-based payments company, announced agreements to acquire Coinme, a …

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Online Shoppers Set a New Holiday Spending Record in 2025

Online shoppers spent a record $257.8 billion from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31, a 6.8% increase from the same period in 2024, according to Adobe Analytics. Over the same period, daily e-commerce spending totaled or surpassed $4 billion on 25 days, compared to 18 in 2024. Cyber Week, the five …

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Digital Transactions 2025 Top 10 Countdown

A recap of the top 10 posts on DigitalTransactions.net in 2025. #1 Eye on AI: Worldpay Adds AI Safeguards; Pushpay’s Approach to AI [Aug. 14] As artificial intelligence use builds in the commercial world, its manifestations in consumer-facing payments applications continue to emerge. The latest developments include processor Worldpay using Trulioo’s …

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Back to the Drawing Board on Debit Rates: Sorting Out Winners and Losers

[Aug. 8] With merchants prevailing in their long-running legal battle to overturn debit rate caps set by the Federal Reserve, the largest debit card issuers could wind up the biggest losers, while Capital One Financial Corp. emerges as the big winner. U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota …

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Yeeld’s Online Surcharging Program Debuts

[Aug. 13] Six months after issuing an API code to enable surcharging for online transactions, Chicago-based Yeeld released YeeldPay, its surcharging program for merchants. Yeeld says YeeldPay is a no-code payment page that provides merchants across the United States with a compliant surcharging program that, because it uses the Yeeld Surcharging …

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Cannabis Payments Providers Applaud Reclassification of the Drug. Are Card Transactions Next?

POSaBIT Systems Corp., a payments processor specializing in cannabis merchants, and Dutchie, a software provider to more than over 6,500 cannabis businesses, late Thursday lauded the Trump administration’s decision to reclassify cannabis to a Schedule III drug as a move that could finally open the door for cannabis merchants to …

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System Developer Enables ACH and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/17/25

System Solutions LLC says an update to its integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central cloud ERP software enables merchants to process automated clearing house transactions within 365 Central.  Sardine AI Corp., a risk-management firm, said it will offer real-time transaction monitoring, fraud interdiction, and other services through a partnership with …

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Klarna’s Agentic Commerce Move and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/15/25

Buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB said it now supports the Agentic Product Protocol, enabling merchants to help make their products discoverable to artificial intelligence agents. Fintech i2c Inc. said it will work with Cross River Bank and Sightline Payments on a payments ecosystem for the U.S. gaming industry. Their first product will …

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Mobile Gains in Bill Payment Preference

Yet more evidence of U.S. consumer reliance on mobile phones emerges as 45% of consumers prefer to pay their bills with a mobile device, up from 29% only last year. That finding from the InvoiceCloud 2026 Annual State of Online Payments Report also signals other big shifts in payment preferences. …

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