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Colorado’s SB 26-134, a bill that would have eliminated sales tax as part of the interchange-fee calculation, has been vetoed by Gov. Jared Polis. SB 26-134, similar to the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, would have taken effect Jan. 1, 2028, had Polis approved it. The contentious Illinois law, which …

PaidBy, an account-to-account payments provider, said it is working with Mastercard Inc. to boost global uptake of A2A payments using open banking. American Express Co. has added a second checked bag as a new benefit for holders of its Basic Delta SkyMiles, Gold, Platinum and Reserve Consumer cards and Business cards. AmEx said …

Early Warnings Services LLC told Digital Transactions News in March that a marketing push for its 3-year-old Paze online checkout platform would be starting in coming months. Early Monday, that push arrived with the launch of a national campaign running on TV, digital video, and social platforms. The new advertising …

Rego Payment Architectures Inc., whose technology allows financial institutions to offer banking services to families, announced an update to its Family Wallet platform to give parents control of children’s accounts directly through Rego’s platform. Fresha, a payments platform specializing in beauty and wellness businesses, said it is widening the capabilities …

BTR, a truck-rental company, has compensated for almost $400,000 in annualized credit card acceptance costs through a surcharging a capability provided by payments processor BlueSnap Inc., according to data the processor released Wednesday. Waltham, Mass.-based BlueSnap launched its surcharging API in January in recognition of cases in which merchants want …

U.S.-based Marqeta Inc., a card-issuing platform, said it has begun offering account and money-movement capabilities in 30 more countries in Europe, working with Banking Circle, a global bank. Yardi, a rent-payments platform, said it is working with Zenbase, a company that lets renters split rent payments, to add rent reporting to …

Fraud and scam bad actors are adapting again to changes in technology and consumer behavior, but so, too, are organizations charged with preventing their misdeeds. In its “Spring 2026 Biannual Threats Report,” Visa Inc. points to four shifts in the second half of 2025 as fundamentally changing how criminals interact …

Open-banking specialist Plaid Inc. unveiled Plaid Guaranteed Payments, a bank payment service. Plaid said the service will evaluate each transaction in real time and return an approval decision within milliseconds. If Plaid approves the transaction, it will guarantee the settlement. If the payment fails, it will cover the loss and handle recovery, …

Payroc LLC launched Integration Essentials, a service to help software platforms more quickly embed Payroc’s payments services into their platform. It includes prebuilt services such as hosted payment pages, payment links, and Payroc Cloud for in-person acceptance. French processor Worldline has agreed to acquire transactions for the buy now, pay later …

Some 53% of U.S. consumers carry a balance on their credit cards in response to rising costs, while 25% carry a balance for six months or more, says a survey from personal-finance platform Achieve. The research, conducted in March by the Achieve Center for Consumer Insights, queried 2,000 consumers. Xero, a …