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Shift4 Payments Inc. early Thursday announced some record results while its top management underscored the company’s increasing focus on overseas opportunities, along with ambitious plans for a stepped-up sales force. “We are taking lessons learned [domestically] out into the world,” said chief executive Taylor Lauber during a group call to …

Processor ACI Worldwide Inc. announced fourth-quarter revenue of $253.2 million, up 13% year-over-year, while full-year 2025 revenue totaled slightly more than $1 billion, a 12.3% increase from 2024. Net income for the quarter slid 35% to $64.3 million, though for the full year it climbed 12.6% to $226.7 million. NCR Voyix Corp., …

With its sale earlier this month of Worldpay to Global Payments Inc., FIS Inc. is focusing on its longstanding business in card issuing for banks, a business where it sees strong returns, especially as banking mergers unfold—but it’s not seeking just any bank. “Our strategy is partnering with banks growing …

Transaction Network Services Inc., an infrastructure-as-a-service provider that connects businesses to point-of-sale terminals and ATMs, has launched TNSPay SmartRoute, a cloud-based transaction-routing solution that allows merchants, processors, and acquirers to define and adjust routing rules in real time. Users can decide how to route a transaction based on specific criteria, …

Bluefin has partnered with Basis Theory, a tokenization and vaulting platform, to allow sensitive payment data to be captured, tokenized, and used across channels. The two companies say they will implement a unified token strategy across in-store, call center, online, and backend payment environments without expanding PCI scope or introducing new …

Illinois merchants scored a big victory late Tuesday in their battle for interchange relief as United States District Court Judge Virginia Kendall upheld the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. The decision, which comes after more than a year of legal wrangling, means the IFPA will go into effect July 1, …

Fiserv’s chief executive early Tuesday told Wall Street not to look for immediate improvement following a sub-par year in 2025. “Our headline results are below our expectations and will remain that way until mid-year,” chief executive Michael Lyons told equity analysts at the top of a group call with equity …

Plans to attach an amended version of the Credit Card Competition Act to a cryptocurrency-infrastructure bill were shelved Thursday, effectively leaving two versions of the bill floating around Congress. The CCCA was amended late last week to include a provision that called for enforcement of the CCCA under antitrust law, …

Visa Inc. chief executive Ryan McInerney touted the card network’s ability to build and deliver innovations and scalable technologies as drivers behind the company’s strong fiscal first quarter 2026 results.  Processed-transaction dollar volume grew 8% year-over-year in the quarter to nearly $4 trillion in constant dollars, with transactions up 9% …

American Express Co., reported 2025 revenue of $72.2 billion, up 9% year-over-year. Fourth-quarter revenue totaled $19 billion, up 10%. Net income came to $2.46 billion for the quarter and $10.8 billion for the year, up 13% and 7%, respectively. Revenue from discount fees was $37.4 billion for the year, a …