News

February, 2026

• 11 February

  Illinois Merchants Score a Big Win in Their Battle for Interchange Relief

  

  Illinois merchants scored a big victory late Tuesday in their battle for interchange relief as United States District Court Judge Virginia Kendall upheld the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. The decision, which comes after more than a year of legal wrangling, means the IFPA will go into effect July 1, …
• 11 February

  A Banner 2025 for Zelle With 20% Year-over-year Growth

  

  Zelle, the peer-to-peer payment service from Early Warning Services LLC, says U.S. consumers sent more than $1.2 trillion in payments using the service in 2025, a 20% increase from 2024. Zelle first surpassed $1 trillion in 2024. That comes on 4.2 billion transactions, a 16% increase from 3.6 billion transactions …
• 11 February

  Adyen’s Personalize Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/11/26

  

  Adyen NV announced Personalize, a tool that lets businesses modify checkout pages in real time in response to shopper preferences. The new service is related to Adyen Uplift, a routing capability launched last year and aimed at increasing conversion rates. Lut, a cannabis-payments specialist, said it will work with Frankenmuth Credit …
• 10 February

  Toast Links Dining to Instacart’s Marketplace; Ingenico Launches Its 360 Platform Plus AXIUM Terminals

  

  Toast Inc. announced early Tuesday it is partnering with online grocery-delivery and-pickup service Instacart to connect restaurants to the Instacart Marketplace, an aggregator of food and beverage suppliers. The move will enable food-and-beverage retailers on the Toast platform to align their product catalog with in-store stock and provide restaurants with …
• 10 February

  Fiserv Caps a Sub-Par Year With a Disappointing Fourth Quarter

  

  Fiserv’s chief executive early Tuesday told Wall Street not to look for immediate improvement following a sub-par year in 2025. “Our headline results are below our expectations and will remain that way until mid-year,” chief executive Michael Lyons told equity analysts at the top of a group call with equity …
• 10 February

  SquareAI Enters the U.K. and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/10/26

  

  Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit announced the launch of SquareAI in the United Kingdom. The technology, which Square says is free to merchants, offers conversational AI intended to help business owners interpret their data and arrive at decisions faster. Payments provider Blue Payment Agency Inc. expanded its focus to help e-commerce sites, especially those …
• 9 February

  North’s Merchant Management API: CRM‑Level Control for Modern Payments Partners

  

  North’s Merchant Management API gives Wholesale ISOs, Full Service Providers (FSPs), and Payment Facilitators deep, CRM-style control over their merchant portfolios through a modern, developer-friendly interface. It is designed for partners that own risk, manage underwriting, and want to differentiate themselves with custom tools and portals for both internal teams …
• 9 February

  Has the CFPB Reached the End of the Road?

  
• 9 February

  How AI Is Rewriting Acquiring

  

  Artificial intelligence has long been a part of payments, known early on as machine learning, but now it’s shifting from a predictive function to agentic AI, where systems act, not just advise, said Joseph Arthur, managing partner at RPY Innovations, a payments consultancy. Speaking on a panel at the Northeast …
• 9 February

  Uber Deepens Adyen Ties and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/9/26

  

  The ride-sharing service Uber will expand its use of payments services from Adyen NV to cover more geographies and will make use of Adyen’s Checkout API product for a wider choice of payment methods, the companies announced. Honor Capital said it is working with ePayPolicy to offer financing when insured customers are making premium …