Wednesday , December 17, 2025

Competitive Strategies

Dwolla Links to FedNow and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/29/25

The payments platform Dwolla announced it has connected with FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s real-time payments platform. The company says it now has links to the two major U.S. instant-payment systems, the RTP network and FedNow. Bakkt Holdings Inc., a cryptocurrency-technology firm, announced a proposed public offering of Class A shares. The timing …

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PayNearMe Shares a Lane With a Software Firm Catering to Auto Dealers and Lenders

Furthering its penetration into the transportation sector, PayNearMe Inc., a fintech that enables paying for online transactions with cash and other payment methods, on Monday said it has integrated its payments system with a business platform from Emotive Software Inc. for automobile dealers and independent lenders. The Emotive deal comes …

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PayPal Launches Pay with Crypto for Cross Border Transactions

PayPal Holdings Inc. early Monday launched Pay with Crypto, a cross-border payment option that instantly converts cryptocurrencies to stablecoins or fiat currencies. The new payment option provides merchants and consumers a unified platform that connects fiat and digital payments and supports more than 100 cryptocurrencies and crypto wallets, such as …

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COMMENTARY: How Embedded Lending Is Transforming the Payment Stack

Embedded lending is rewriting the rules of how payments work, eliminating the need for separate credit approvals and enabling built-in financing directly into digital wallets and checkout processes. In the past year, 45% of Gen Z and Millennials used BNPL services, and these numbers are expected to rise. The global …

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Corpay’s Working Capital Move and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/25/25

Corporate card issuer Corpay announced it is selling off a fuel-card portfolio in a deal it says will bring in $60 million and free up $35 million in working capital, funds the company says will aid its $2.2 billion acquisition of Alpha Group International plc., a United Kingdom-based banking company. Pumpkin Insurance …

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Samsung Adds Installment Loans to Its Mobile Wallet

Samsung Electronics America is partnering with Splitit USA Inc. to offer installment payments to Samsung wallet users. The new feature will enable Samsung wallet users to make in-store purchases using an existing Visa or Mastercard card in their wallet and pay for the purchase over time. Samsung wallet users will …

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Nuvei Looks to Boost Card Authorizations for North American Merchants

With merchants growing more heated in their opposition to card-acceptance costs, processors are looking for strategies that could help sellers gain from improvements in card authorizations. An example emerged early Thursday with news from the big Canadian processor Nuvei Corp. that it has introduced a pair of technologies it says …

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Zelle Roadshow Underway and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/24/25

Zelle, the peer-to-peer payments service from Early Warning Services LLC, began a multi-city financial education training roadshow with Consumer Action, a consumer protection and financial awareness organization. Payments-technology provider Alacriti said Citizens Business Bank launched real-time payments services based on Alacriti’s Orbipay Payments Hub. The services involve connections to FedNow and the …

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PayPal Enables Mobile Wallet Interoperability Globally With the Launch of PayPal World

PayPal Holdings Inc. early Wednesday launched PayPal World, a series of partnerships that will connect digital wallets outside the United States to its platform and enable interoperability with PayPal and Venmo wallets at the point of sale. PayPal World, which will go live this fall, will enable users to pay …

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A ‘Choppy’ Market Recovery and Timing Issues Lead Fiserv to Trim a Forecast

Fiserv Inc. early Wednesday reported $10.65 billion in revenue for the first half of 2025, representing a 7% increase from the first six months of 2024, but it was a revised projection for revenue growth for the whole year that drew the attention of equity analysts on a group call …

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