News

September, 2026

• 11 September

  Cash App Is Testing Peer-to-Peer Business Payments For Very Small Merchants

  

  Sole proprietors on the Cash App platform may have a way to accept payments from consumers who also have Cash App accounts. Cash App, a part of Block Inc., says a test of Cash App-funded payments to a sole proprietor with a Cash App account is under way now. It …
• 11 September

  Rules Emerge to Manage On-Chain Risk in Agentic Transactions

  

  As spending enabled by stablecoins picks up momentum, payments players are beginning to see a need to guard against agentic transaction fraud involving cryptocurrency as the medium of exchange. The latest example of this unfolding concern emerged Thursday. Contending that “blockchain analytics was built for a pre-agentic world,” London-based risk-management …
• 11 September

  MoneyGram Debuts MoneyGram Card and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/11/26

  

  MoneyGram launched its MoneyGram Card, a Visa-branded card backed by stablecoins and developed in partnership with Rain, a provider of stablecoin services. The card is available now in Colombia, with plans to launch in other markets over coming months. Flex Dental Solutions said its FlexPayments service will offer buy now, pay later …
• 10 September

  Mastercard Adds Tools to Ease Agentic Commerce for Merchants

  

  Having launched Mastercard Agent Suite in January, the card brand is expanding the service to make it easier for merchants to create and deploy AI-enabled shopping experiences. It also is launching Mastercard Agent Connect, a service that helps merchants, AI agents, platforms, and payment providers connect and transact via a …
• 10 September

  Square Scoops up Whit’s Frozen Custard; Setomatic Unveils SpyderWash for Laundromats

  

  Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit said early Thursday it will support transactions at just under 100 locations belonging to Whit’s Frozen Custard, a 23-year-old restaurant chain based in Granville, Ohio. The move comes as the chain begins planning expansion to more locations. Whit’s, which operates stores in 11 states located …
• 10 September

  Checkout Begins U.S. Acquiring and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/10/26

  

  Checkout.com launched direct acquiring in the United States under its Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank charter in Georgia. Mastercard Inc. announced Mastercard Wallet Pay, a set of technologies enabling interoperability and encouraging innovation among wallets for contactless and online payments. Some 4.3 billion persons globally now use digital wallets, a number expected …
• 9 September

  Building a successful payments strategy: How ISOs and ISVs can drive scalable growth together

  

  The future is not ISOs versus ISVs. It’s ISOs and ISVs working together. By: Josh Bennett, Vice President of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank | Elavon The payments industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, driven by innovations such as agentic commerce, instant payments, and embedded financial services. …
• 9 September

  SpotOn Pairs with Maple and Lands Ruby Chow’s in Atlanta

  

  SpotOn Transact LLC is enlisting Maple Inc., an artificial-intelligence voice-platform firm for restaurants, as an integrated service in its point-of-sale suite. San Francisco-based SpotOn says Maple’s AI platform will deliver a native POS sync for users so phone orders captured by Maple flow directly through the POS system into the …
• 9 September

  BVNK Links With  Marqeta for Card-Based Stablecoin Spending

  
• 9 September

  Just 23% Trust AI: Visa and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/9/26

  

  Some 72% of U.S. consumers have used an AI assistant for shopping, but just 23% trust AI to manage payments, according to the Visa Trust Index for agentic commerce. The survey took place May 26-28 among a sample of 2,065 consumers, though the sample for the payment transaction question was 1,028 to …