Contractors enrolled in the Sherwin-Williams Pro+ service now have access to Square’s business management, invoicing, and payment-acceptance services via the Sherwin-Williams Digital Alliance Program. This program offers professional painters, contractors, and designers in the Pro+ service access to a variety of business tools. Square is the latest addition. Others include …
Read More »DLocal Added to Russell Index and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/29/26
DLocal Ltd., an international provider of payments technology, has been added to the U.S. small-cap Russell 2000 Index. In the U.S. market, the company links local merchants to markets in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Banking platform Personetics said its AI-enabled platform is now integrated with Fiserv Inc.’s Experience Digital platform for …
Read More »Fraud Costs $5.13 for Every $1 in Loss, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Finds
Merchants wrestle with fraud every day, lamenting how much is lost in each bad transaction. LexisNexis Risk Solutions, as it’s done for a number of years, has quantified the actual cost beyond the item’s value. In 2026, the total cost of every $1 in fraud is $5.13 in the United …
Read More »Jack Henry Taps Google Cloud to Help FIs and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/26/26
Processor Jack Henry & Associates Inc. said it will work with Google Cloud to introduce an AI-based security service for financial institutions to enable faster issue resolution and support routine operations. Elon Musk’s X social-media platform has started to roll out the X Money payment service to more users to elicit feedback and correct …
Read More »CPI Nabs Issuing Tech and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/25/26
Payment card issuer CPI Card Group Inc. said it has acquired instant-issuance technology from HID Global Corp. The all-cash deal closed June 23, CPI said, though price and other terms were not announced. Affirm Holdings Inc. said retailer Backcountry will add Affirm as a payment method on Backcountry.com and its other sites. Mastercard …
Read More »PCI Pal Adds Passkey Option and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/23/26
PCI Pal has launched a passkey customer authentication service that it says allows merchants to verify customer identity at the start of a transaction. Fraud prevention specialist Scamnetic rebranded its IDeveryone Payment Protection division as PayVerify. Integrated Research launched Iris for Card Payments, AI technology that it says assists payments companies in detecting transaction …
Read More »Splitting Rent Payments May Help On-Time Payment Rates: Study
Rent, the 12-times-a-year installment payment many consumers make, could benefit from splitting further into two payments a month, suggests a study released by Flexible Finance Inc., also known as Flex. New York City-based Flex commissioned the study, which was completed by San Francisco-based research firm MetroSight. Flex enables tenants to …
Read More »How Cards Are Exploiting Niche Payments Opportunities
Card programs for specialized payments often get lost in the shuffle, but a pair of developments this week indicate the market for card-driven payments remains vibrant in the age of cardless digital transactions. This is especially the case lately with respect to markets like dealerships and housing. Brex LLC, a …
Read More »PayIt Taps AI for Gov. App and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/17/26
PayIt, a payments provider for state and local governments, launched PayIt Smart Works, a slate of AI-enabled functions for back-office operations, including consolidation of payment, banking, and remittance data. Banking-technology provider Mercury launched Mercury Command, an AI-based platform enabling users to make payments and conduct other financial business via natural-language command. Sutton …
Read More »Paze Adds to Its Marketing Push With Statement Credits
As e-commerce volumes climb, Early Warning Services LLC has been pushing its Paze online checkout service in a national campaign that started earlier this month. The latest chapter in that effort arrived early Tuesday with the news that Paze will award a $10 statement credit to users who use the …
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