Digital Transactions Authoritative, insightful and timely information for payments professionals
September, 2026
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15 September
Pidgin’s Instant CU Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/15/26
Instant payments platform Pidgin said it is working with Millennium Corporate Credit Union, which provides services to other credit unions, to enable nearly 300 credit unions working with Millennium to use instant payments services, such as FedNow, RTP, and stablecoin access. Bread Financial announced a long-term renewal of its credit card program with …
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14 September
Digital ‘Frankenstein’ Identities Saturate The Dark Web
In an ideal world, a report about the low costs of personally identifiable data that can be stitched together to create a synthetic identity, a proverbial Frankenstein, would be nonexistent. That’s not the world today, however. A new report from Coveron, an identity-theft protection service, outlines how cheap it is …
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14 September
Talus’s ReadyPoint Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/14/26
Payments processor Talus launched ReadyPoint, an offering that allows merchants to accept payments on mobile phones through softPOS tap-to-pay technology from Ingenico. A new report from Visa Inc., called “The Great Indoors: How the ‘Couch Economy’ Is Redefining Consumer Spending Habits,” found that more than 17% of payment cards are used for streaming …
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11 September
Cash App Is Testing Peer-to-Peer Business Payments For Very Small Merchants
Sole proprietors on the Cash App platform may have a way to accept payments from consumers who also have Cash App accounts. Cash App, a part of Block Inc., says a test of Cash App-funded payments to a sole proprietor with a Cash App account is under way now. It …
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11 September
Rules Emerge to Manage On-Chain Risk in Agentic Transactions
As spending enabled by stablecoins picks up momentum, payments players are beginning to see a need to guard against agentic transaction fraud involving cryptocurrency as the medium of exchange. The latest example of this unfolding concern emerged Thursday. Contending that “blockchain analytics was built for a pre-agentic world,” London-based risk-management …
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11 September
MoneyGram Debuts MoneyGram Card and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/11/26
MoneyGram launched its MoneyGram Card, a Visa-branded card backed by stablecoins and developed in partnership with Rain, a provider of stablecoin services. The card is available now in Colombia, with plans to launch in other markets over coming months. Flex Dental Solutions said its FlexPayments service will offer buy now, pay later …
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10 September
Mastercard Adds Tools to Ease Agentic Commerce for Merchants
Having launched Mastercard Agent Suite in January, the card brand is expanding the service to make it easier for merchants to create and deploy AI-enabled shopping experiences. It also is launching Mastercard Agent Connect, a service that helps merchants, AI agents, platforms, and payment providers connect and transact via a …
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10 September
Square Scoops up Whit’s Frozen Custard; Setomatic Unveils SpyderWash for Laundromats
Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit said early Thursday it will support transactions at just under 100 locations belonging to Whit’s Frozen Custard, a 23-year-old restaurant chain based in Granville, Ohio. The move comes as the chain begins planning expansion to more locations. Whit’s, which operates stores in 11 states located …
