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How Circle Is Marrying Stablecoins With Agentic Commerce
FIS Doubles Down on Issuing While Riding an AI Wave
With its sale earlier this month of Worldpay to Global Payments Inc., FIS Inc. is focusing on its longstanding business in card issuing for banks, a business where it sees strong returns, especially as banking mergers unfold—but it’s not seeking just any bank. “Our strategy is partnering with banks growing …
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Klarna Clocks Growth As It Looks to Banking Services
Klarna AB released numbers early Thursday that indicate the payments company’s processing breadth is growing rapidly. News of Klarna’s fourth-quarter 2025 performance also comes as the company looks to further its growth as a global digital bank. “We’ve been executing on a clear plan: acquire customers through seamless payments, then …
Read More »Global Payments Looks Forward to a Post-Issuing Era
A Global Survey Uncovers a Strong Following for Stablecoins
Research released early Tuesday argues stablecoins have made their move out of niche applications and into the mainstream of international payments, propelled by fast transactions and perceived security. That’s according to the “Stablecoin Utility Report” from stablecoin-technology provider BVNK, with research conducted by YouGov among more than 4,600 digital-currency users …
Read More »A Rapidly Growing Klarna Joins Google Pay in the U.K.
Klarna AB announced early Monday its pay-over-time service has become an available payment option in Google Pay in the United Kingdom, joining a list of payment services already operating through the wallet. The move represents a major geographic expansion of previous actions by the two companies. Last year, Google Pay …
Read More »How Chip Cards Have Been Deployed to Battle Fraud in State EBT Programs
Chip cards are coming to state benefit programs, with the latest development emerging from Alabama. The state’s Department of Human Resources is mailing electronic benefit cards embedded with chips as a means to combat fraud, according to an announcement early Friday from the chip card supplier, Conduent Inc. The chip …
Read More »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 …
Read More »A New POS Terminal Emerges While Tap To Pay Figures in a New App
The Mexico-based payments company Clip announced the launch of its latest point-of-sale terminal, the Clip Total 3. And technology provider SeoSamba launched Point-of-Sale, an app that incorporates programming from Stripe Inc. and enables iOS and Android tap-to-pay transactions on smart phones or tablets with wireless links to printers and card …
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