Consumer spending is expected to remain strong on Cyber Monday, after merchants saw robust holiday sales over Thanksgiving weekend. Shoppers in the United States are projected to spend $14.2 billion online on Cyber Monday, a 6.3% increase from a year ago, says Adobe Analytics. Spending is expected to peak at $16 …

Online shoppers have spent $79.7 billion in the first 23 days of the 2025 holiday shopping season, a 7.5% year-over-year increase, Adobe Analytics finds. Within that period, online shoppers spent more than $3 billion in a single day on 22 days, up two days from last year. Discounts played a big …

Consumers will spend less between Black Friday and Cyber Monday than they did last year, despite a higher percentage of consumers planning to purchase during the four-day holiday shopping period, finds Deloitte’s 2025 Black Friday-Cyber Monday survey. Consumer spend per person during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping events …

Worldpay LLC has launched an open-source standard to help developers create artificial intelligence-based commerce agents and connect AI apps to external systems. The standard, known as the Model Context Protocol, enables such AI apps as ChatGPT to connect to databases, search engines, and workflows, or specialized prompts, to access information …

Fraudsters are becoming better organized and building industrial-strength infrastructures to commit fraud, making their actions harder to detect and prevent, says Visa Inc.’s Fall 2025 Biannual Threats Report. The report, which pulls data from the Visa’s global network, identifies the five biggest fraud threats facing the payments ecosystem: the industrialization …

FICO (Fair Isaac Corp.) has partnered with open-banking platform Plaid Inc. to develop the UltraFICO score, a credit score that includes real-time cash-flow data from Plaid. The new scoring model is intended to give lenders a more comprehensive view of a consumer’s credit readiness. The UltraFICO score will weigh a …

Shift4 Payments Inc. continues to stack up wins in the highly competitive stadium-pay market. The company announced early Wednesday it will process stadium-concessions payments for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League at the team’s home arena, Canadian Tire Centre. The deal, which comes hard on the heels of Shift4’s …

Fiserv Inc.’s Clover point-of-sale technology unit has signed a deal with the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League to provide its Clover Sport point-of-sale hardware and software at the Wild’s home stadium, Grand Casino Arena. Fiserv will deploy about 300 Clover devices at concession stands throughout the arena. Fiserv’s Clover unit …

As the dust settles around the latest settlement agreement in Visa Inc.’s and Mastercard Inc.’s long running legal battle with merchants over card-acceptance fees, how the offer will impact the payments industry is coming into focus. Early reaction to the agreement from payments experts is that interchange relief will be …

Shift4 Payments Inc. continues to carve out a larger share of the stadium-pay market. The processor’s latest win is a deal with the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League to modernize and streamline transactions at the Bengals’ home field, Paycor Stadium. Shift4 will process transactions for all food and beverage …