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 …
Read More »Fraud and Scam Initiators Are Adapting, Again, Visa Says
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 …
Read More »Plaid’s Payment Assurance and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/20/26
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, …
Read More »Payroc Eases Integration and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/19/26
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 …
Read More »Card Balances up and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/13/26
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 …
Read More »Fed Payments Diary: Cash Use Dips, But Remains Resilient
Credit and debit card use is up, but cash remains in 76% of consumer wallets, finds the 2026 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice, released by Federal Reserve Financial Services. Now in its 10th year, the report found that, on average, a consumer made six monthly cash payments in 2025, down …
Read More »Visa Tap ID Tech Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/12/26
Visa Inc. said it made the first-ever use of its Tap to Confirm and Tap to Activate technology for issuing banks in collaboration with fintech Keyno and Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) Ltd. Visa said instead of using one-time passcodes, call center verification, or other processes, cardholders can confirm their identity or activate …
Read More »Colorado Advances a Measure to Eliminate Interchange Fees on Sales Tax
A Colorado bill that would eliminate sales tax as part of the interchange fee calculation has moved to Gov. Jared Polis’s desk for review following passage Wednesday in the Colorado House. It passed a state Senate vote last week. Similar in some ways to the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, …
Read More »NCR Voyix Sees Revenue Dip and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/7/26
Point-of-sale technology provider NCR Voyix Corp. reported March-quarter revenue dipped slightly to $606 million compared to $612 million in the year-earlier period, led by a 6% slide in restaurant revenue, to $179 million. The company narrowed its net loss to $5 million from $17 million a year ago. Point-of-sale systems provider Aptos LLC said Boot …
Read More »Marqeta Volume up 33% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/6/26
Card-issuing platform Marqeta Inc. reported it processed $112 billion in transaction volume in the March quarter, up 33% year-over-year, generating revenue of $166 million, a 19% rise. Net income swung to a positive $8 million from an $8-million net loss a year ago. MoneyGram will work with the crypto platform Kraken worldwide to allow …
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