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Consumers turned to debit cards in increasing numbers in the first quarter, finds the inaugural Galileo Debit Spend Index. Released Thursday, the report found that consumer use of debit cards at both fast food and sit-down restaurants increased more than 18% in the quarter, a reversal of a downward trend …
May, 2026
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28 May
BlueSnap Snags BTR for Its Credit Card Surcharging Platform
BTR, a truck-rental company, has compensated for almost $400,000 in annualized credit card acceptance costs through a surcharging a capability provided by payments processor BlueSnap Inc., according to data the processor released Wednesday. Waltham, Mass.-based BlueSnap launched its surcharging API in January in recognition of cases in which merchants want …
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28 May
Many Not Ready for Agentic Commerce and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/28/26
Some 73% of online merchants are not ready for AI agents, while AI agents are at least in some cases recommending “unreliable merchants,” according to research from Ballerine, a specialist in merchant risk and compliance. The company conducted 47 interviews among card networks, acquirers, merchants, AI platforms, and payment service providers. …
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27 May
Fiserv Signs up for Experian Link’s Debit Card Ownership Checker
Experian plc, most known among consumers as a credit-reporting agency, says it is collaborating with processor Fiserv Inc. on Experian Link, a service to make it easier for merchants to verify a consumer’s identity with debit card ownership data. Announced Wednesday, the cooperative endeavor will see Fiserv’s proprietary debit card …
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27 May
Nium Pairs with Circle to Speed Local Payments Routing
Nium Pte. Ltd., a provider of cross-border payments technology, is working with Circle Internet in a collaboration using stablecoins for settlement and local currency for last-mile delivery of country-to-country transactions. The project aims to solve what the partners say is a longstanding problem—fast payments that can slow considerably when it’s …
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27 May
Maxio Adds Surcharging and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/27/26
Business-to-business billing and revenue management platform Maxio LLC said credit card surcharging is now available in its Maxio Payments service. Payments platforms Ordr and FreedomPay said they are collaborating to create a gateway and commerce platform for companies offering live entertainment around the world. Payments platform NCR Voyix Corp. said it is working with U.S. Bank’s …
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26 May
Bath and Beauty Retailer Magnolia Opts for Square’s POS System
Magnolia Soap & Bath Co. will adopt the Square point-of-sale system for its 50 locations, including a module designed for franchises. Founded in 2016, Magnolia uses the franchise model to expand and has stores in 17 states. It will use Square for Retail, a service that includes branded micro-sites for …
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26 May
Crypto Tech Expands With Moves by Mesh And Miracle Pay
The world’s payments systems are still a long way from adopting digital currencies as a standard medium of exchange, but day by day the path to that future gets clearer. Early Monday, a 6-year-old cryptocurrency network called Mesh said it is widening an existing integration with Base, a crypto app …
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26 May
Marqeta’s European Expansion and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/26/26
U.S.-based Marqeta Inc., a card-issuing platform, said it has begun offering account and money-movement capabilities in 30 more countries in Europe, working with Banking Circle, a global bank. Yardi, a rent-payments platform, said it is working with Zenbase, a company that lets renters split rent payments, to add rent reporting to …
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22 May
Eye on Crypto: Bitget Wallet Expands QR Code Payments; MoonPay Launches MoonPay Trade
As cryptocurrency for payments continues to emerge, two digital currency companies separately are broadening uses for their products. Bitget Wallet, which bills itself as an “everyday finance” app, is expanding its QR code payments to Argentina, Colombia, and Bolivia. Bitget Wallet says it will be integrated with national payment systems …
