Tuesday , December 9, 2025

John Stewart

Starting as an editor on Bank Network News at Faulkner & Gray, John ultimately played a key role in starting, editing, and publishing many of F&G's flagship publications, including Credit Card Management, Card Technology, Card Marketing, and Collections & Credit Risk. Before co-founding Boland Hill Media, John was a group publisher at Thomson Media responsible for a $10 million division embracing magazines, newsletters, and Web sites.

‘We Are Just Beginning’ Says Shift4’s CEO As He Reviews a Strong Quarter

Shift4 Payments Inc. early Thursday reported a 26% jump year-over-year in September-quarter processing volume as the company continues to deploy assets acquired in its $2.5-billion deal for the Swiss processor Global Blue. “We are number one in hotels, number one in stadiums, and we are just beginning to bring these …

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FIS Welcomes Its Imminent Post-Worldpay Era, With a Stress on Bank Tech

FIS Inc. historically has been known for its banking technology and for its merchant processing. With its sale of the merchant processor Worldpay to Global Payments Inc., the Jacksonville, Fla-based company has been venturing into other new business opportunities, including artificial intelligence and stablecoins, its top management indicated early Wednesday. …

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Global Payments Notes Updates to Its Genius POS Tech As Worldpay Looms

Global Payments Inc. early Tuesday heralded updates for its Genius point-of-sale technology as it celebrated a recent regulatory ruling that speeds up the company’s $22.7 billion deal for the processing giant Worldpay. “We now expect to close on Worldpay in the first quarter of 2026,” chief executive Cameron Bready told …

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Coming to the U.S.: A Beefed-up Klarna Rewards Program

Banking and payments platform Klarna AB announced early Monday a global membership program featuring Premium and Max rewards levels and offering cash back and benefits related to travel. The new program is starting out in Europe but “expansion to the U.S. is planned for the coming weeks,” the payments company …

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Will Zelle’s Stablecoin Venture ‘Reinvent Cross-Border Payments for a New Age’?

Early Warning Services LLC announced early Friday its Zelle payments network will expand internationally by using stablecoins for cross-border transactions.  Many details of the new initiative, such as expected volumes and fees, were not immediately available, but the move is aimed at offering faster international payments capability “to Zelle customers …

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An Acquisitive Shift4 Bids for Worldline’s U.S. and Canadian Assets

Shift4 Payments Inc. announced late afternoon Tuesday it is negotiating details with Worldline S.A. to acquire the big French processor’s acquiring assets in the United States and Canada. The negotiations, which Shift4 says are exclusive of other parties, would result in the big U.S. processor picking up Bambora Inc., Bambora …

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How Flexa’s Venture With Bealls Could Be Key for Crypto

Flexa Network Inc., a payments provider based on digital currencies, has agreed to support in-store cryptocurrency acceptance at Bealls Inc., operator of more than 660 stores in 22 states under Bealls and other brand names. The move, announced Monday afternoon, represents one of the largest planned deployments of in-store crypto …

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AmEx Looks to a Refreshed High End Card for Platinum Results

American Express Co.’s new campaigns to build more intimate relationships with restaurants and refresh its top-end Platinum card are starting to show signs of paying off, the card company said early Friday. The initiatives come as the company reported revenue growth of 11% year-over-year for the September quarter. The effort …

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Faster Payments Gain Momentum at Nacha And The Clearing House

Faster payments on the automated clearing house network and on real-time payments systems are gaining momentum, according to statistics released Thursday by Nacha, the standards body for the automated clearing house system, and by the Real Time Payments network, operated by 22 of the world’s biggest banks. The total value …

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