Acquiring

With large payments companies beginning to incorporate cryptocurrency and alternative payment methods into their processing flows, the opportunity for sales agents and their acquirers to sell another payment-acceptance method is growing. That’s the takeaway from a panel discussion this week at the Southeast Acquirers Association conference in Miami Beach, Fla. …

Early Warning Services LLC said India is the first country outside the United States where U.S. users of the Zelle peer-to-peer payments service can send remittances. Simultaneously, Early Warning introduced its first stablecoin, ZelleUSD, aimed at international payments from U.S. users. Stable, a blockchain network featuring the stablecoin USDT, has joined …

Visa Inc. announced multiple technological initiatives this week that aim to enhance the roles of artificial intelligence, stablecoins and tokens in payments, including usage of the ChatGPT AI program. The plethora of announcements came at the Visa Payments Forum 2026 in San Francisco. “AI is transforming the front end of commerce,” Jack …

JetPay, a payments platform specializing in charter flights, has agreed to work with fiat and stablecoin payments platform Nuvion to speed cross-border payments for bookings. Xplor Technologies, a payments-technology provider, announced it has acquired Bitlancer, a developer of software for payroll and other functions aimed at fitness businesses. Bank of …

More than a year after Visa Inc. launched the Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program, acquirers and their vendors are adapting to the new way of keeping tabs on fraud and chargeback levels. Known as VAMP, the program, according to Visa, consolidated five fraud and dispute programs and reduced 38 distinct remediation processes …

Payments executives who may be hoping that a court ruling Tuesday will put an end to years of bitter wrangling over card-acceptance costs are likely to be disappointed, experts tell Digital Transactions News. “This does not end the argument. It just stifles it,” says Cliff Gray, principal at Gray Consulting …

For the better part of two decades, I’ve watched the payments industry evolve from a straightforward utility into a labyrinth of technical complexity. Merchant fee structures today are no longer just the cost of doing business. They are a volatile variable that can quietly erode a company’s bottom line. As …

Mastercard announced Agent Pay for Machines, a system for the initiation, orchestration, and settlement of payments conducted at high speed between AI agents. The network is collaborating with more than 30 companies on the initiative, including Adyen, Global Payments, Stripe, and BVNK, a stablecoin platform it has agreed to acquire for $1.8 …

A perpetual bane of payments, chargebacks create issues for merchants and their payment providers. Now, Findustry AI Inc. hopes its new artificial intelligence-enabled Chargeback Agent product will help ease the work of complying with card-brand dispute processes. Led by Jonathan Razi, who sold CardX, a surcharging-services provider, to Stax in 2021, …

The point-of-sale technology platform Valor PayTech announced early Friday an agreement with LANDI Global to represent LANDI’s line of point-of-sale devices in the U.S. market. The move is expected to lay the foundation for what Valor PayTech calls a “deeper product collaboration.” To start, Jericho, N.Y.-based Valor PayTech says it …