Visa Inc. said the People’s Bank of China has approved the global payment network’s Application to Prepare, a step toward the establishment of a domestic bank-card clearing institution in China. Visa’s goal is to establish processing for domestic payments in that country. Euna Solutions, a technology provider for the public sector, …

Investment platform Moomoo announced an expansion of its account-funding services to enable investments using Apple Pay and Google Pay. The service relies on an existing collaboration with Visa and Checkout.com that enables Moomoo users to make real-time deposits for investments in stocks, cryptocurrencies, exchange-traded funds, and other options. Vancouver, British Columbia-based BTQ Technologies …

Ransomware victims around the world totaled 2,760 in the third quarter, up 21% from the second quarter and 75% from the same period last year, according to the Q3 2026 Ransomware and Cyber Threat Insights Report from GuidePoint Security. Hospitality technology provider Mews released survey results that found 89% of guests …

Banking infrastructure provider Increase said it will use services from Spade to enable real-time merchant data for card transactions to appear on statements provided to consumers. FIS Inc. also said it would use Spade to provide clearer debit card descriptors. PAR Technology Corp. updated Bridg, its identity resolution and shopper …

Canadian consumers made 26.7 billion retail payments in 2025 totaling $12.9 trillion, up 5.7% in value over 2024, according to the Canadian Payment Methods and Trends Report released Tuesday by Payments Canada. Point-of-sale system maker NCR Voyix Corp. said its new integration with TruAge, a digital age-verification service, will help its …

Invoice-management platform Basware has closed on its acquisition of Trustpair, a fraud-prevention technology provider focused on payments. Terms were not disclosed. The deal was announced in late August. The digital-asset trading platform XT Exchange launched a scan-to-pay capability for its XT Pay service, allowing XT app users to make purchases …

Consumers in New York City have a new option for canceling their online subscriptions with new rules issued by Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani becoming effective Thursday, Oct. 1. The click-to-cancel rules require subscription providers to make it as easy to cancel as it was to sign up. A similar federal …

E-commerce payments provider FastSpring announced it has introduced Cash App Pay as a payment method for its checkout. Block Inc. launched Cash App Pay on Square in 2021 and extended it to external sites the next year. Grocery chain The Kroger Co. launched its Kroger Rewards World Elite Mastercard, a credit card offering rewards good for …

Two-thirds of consumers walk away from a payment process that requires more than three steps, according to “The Competition for Consumer Payments,” a report from Datos Insights sponsored by SBT, a payments platform specializing in regulated industries. Datos surveyed 2,000 U.S. consumers in the second quarter for the report. 934 Ltd., …

Bank of America Corp. said its transaction volume flowing on the RTP network, an instant payment service operated by The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, increased 48% from January through July compared with the same period in 2025. Much of that is attributed to RTP’s transaction limit increase to $10 …