ACI Worldwide Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Cranium Ventures, a developer of technology for switching card-based transactions. Cranium will become part of ACI’s Connetic for Cards payments-orchestration unit, launched in March. ACI says its various units process more than 300 billion card transactions per year. Terms of the deal, which …
Read More »Bilt Enlists Jackman for Rent Day and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/31/26
Payments platform Bilt said its Bilt Rent Day, which occurs the first day of each month, is collaborating with Global Citizen and actor Hugh Jackman Sept. 26 to promote the event. Bilt allows users to earn rewards on rent and other housing expenses. TD Bank announced it has moved tokenized dollar-denominated funds between …
Read More »PayPal Pursuit Ends and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/28/26
PayPal Holdings Inc.’s shares fell early Friday following news reports late Thursday that Stripe and Advent have abandoned their pursuit of the payments giant. PayPal’s board reportedly spurned the Stripe/Advent offer of $53 billion, or $60.50 per share, as too low. PayPal’s shares were trading at $61.47 at the market’s close Thursday. Some 47% …
Read More »Visa Updates VVAH Fraud Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/27/26
Visa Inc. announced the latest version of its Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness, which the card network says will help reduce the time between the discovery and resolution of fraud-attack paths. Some resolution times can be cut from weeks to hours, Visa says. Payments-technology company CARD91 launched SpendFlow, a commercial card program it says …
Read More »Miracle Pay’s POS Crypto Plan and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/26/26
Miracle Pay, a provider of payments technology for merchants, said it will work with zerohash, a provider of cryptocurrency technology, to enable stablecoin acceptance at both physical and online merchants. At the point of sale, consumers will use crypto wallets on their phones to fund transactions. A survey of 1,000 consumers …
Read More »Accertify Gains HIPAA Compliance and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/25/26
Fraud-detection provider Accertify said it has gained HIPAA compliance, allowing the company to offer more services to health-care organizations. Bluefin Payment Systems LLC said it now offers point-of-sale products for card-present payments integrated with Visa Acceptance Solutions. Centerbase, a software provider to law firms, said it has integrated the electronic billing technology BillSync …
Read More »Paysafe’s Video Game Log on and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/24/26
Paysafe has launched a video gaming arena, built on its PaysafeCard and PaysafeWallet products, for players, developers, and publishers. The company says the initiative is intended to widen its gaming franchise beyond payments with features such as game discovery and recommendations, rewards, promotions, and events. Global Payments Inc. kicked off Genius World, …
Read More »Walmart Adding Contactless Payment Acceptance and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/21/26
Walmart Inc. said it will add contactless payments to point-of-sale terminals at select Walmart and Sam’s Club stores and plans to make it available at U.S. locations by the end of 2026. The tap-and-pay method will come to its fuel stations by mid-2027. Walmart is among the most recent of the …
Read More »Repay’s Visa Connection and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/20/26
Payments provider Repay Holdings Corp. announced it has a reseller agreement with Visa Platform Connect, a service that lets acquirers and independent software vendors link directly to the Visa Acceptance Platform and VisaNet. Ninety-one percent of Canadian consumers fear their online data could be used to make impersonation easier or disclose answers to …
Read More »Jack Henry’s Profit up 10% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/19/26
Banking services and processor Jack Henry & Associates Inc. reported $2.54 billion in revenue for fiscal 2026, which ended June 30, up 6.7% from $2.38 billion in 2025. Net income for the year of $502.8 million increased 10.3% from $455.7 million the year prior. In the fourth quarter, Jack Henry had $644 …
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