Competitive Strategies

Remittances across borders are a welcome but expensive cross-border payment service for many, finds a new Visa Inc. report, “Money Travels 2026.” With the U.S. alone sending $107.1 billion in outbound remittances in 2025, according to World Bank data, remittances can have a significant impact on recipients. Yet, many have …

Sometimes a fully scaled, massive payments machine isn’t necessary, leaving organizers of semi-informal events to run their own payments options. Now, event organizers who don’t want to be restricted to a single payments provider are a target audience for Track Rabbit, an event manager and payments platform. In an unusual move …

Processor NMI said it has expanded its NMI Business Capital program, offering new term loans and starter offers that ISOs, software companies, and software-as-a-service companies can offer merchants. U.S. consumers now expect AI agents to conduct 15% of their transactions, up from 9% a year ago, while 45% of Americans have used …

With the e-commerce arena weeks away from one of its busiest times of the year, retailers and vendors are readying their checkouts. Sports apparel merchant Fanatics Inc. says Afterpay is its preferred buy now, pay later provider and Landmark Global, which helps merchants with cross-border e-commerce transactions, says its new …

ACI Worldwide Inc. early Tuesday said banks will be able to process payments via tokenized deposits as well as traditional payment methods through its move to add Swift ledger transactions to its ACI Connetic payments hub. The international payments network Swift introduced its blockchain-based ledger last year. The move comes …

InComm Payments said Sam’s Club, a unit of Walmart Inc., will use its InComm Generated Offers service to create personalized digital offers that are authenticated and redeemed in real time at the checkout. Banking services provider Finzly said it received certification for request for payment transactions on the RTP network, an Early Warning …

Consumers and merchants may stand to benefit in many ways from agentic commerce and artificial intelligence, but fraudsters may also see what they consider plusses of the data-centric technology, with Juniper Research forecasting global fraudulent transactions in digital banking and money transfer surpassing 2.2 billion by 2031, influenced by the …

An investor group led by Priority Technology Holdings Inc. chairman and chief executive Thomas Priore will take the processor private in a deal valued at $1.6 billion, or $8.05 per share in cash, Priority announced early Monday. The company’s closing share price on Friday was $5.83. The agreement follows a …

Quill Bank announced it has launched its Acquiring Line of Business unit to serve payment facilitators, ISOs, ISVs, and fintechs, and has named payments veteran Deborah Camm senior vice president and head of acquiring. Alchemy, a technology developer for agentic commerce and onchain transactions, announced an integration with Mastercard Agent Pay …