Debit Cards

Some 72% of U.S. consumers have used an AI assistant for shopping, but just 23% trust AI to manage payments, according to the Visa Trust Index for agentic commerce. The survey took place May 26-28 among a sample of 2,065 consumers, though the sample for the payment transaction question was 1,028 to …

OnePay, the financial-services company majority owned by Walmart Inc., is adding support for Apple Inc.’s wallet for its credit cards, enabling cardholders to use their cards to make Apple Pay transactions. The OnePay debit card has supported Apple Pay since 2022. Adding Apple Pay support coincides with Walmart enabling contactless …

Payments companies continue to court potentially lucrative software integration deals with PSQ Holdings Inc. among the latest to do so. West Palm Beach, Fla.-based PSQ says its PSQ Payments unit will supply credit and debit card and automated clearing house payments, along with instant payment processing via FedNow and RTP …

Using a debit card as a card-on-file payment accounted for 25% of debit transactions made in the second quarter, says the SoFi Tech Solutions Debit Spend Index. That’s up from 24% in the first quarter, and marks the payment method’s rise past card-not-present debit transactions as the most popular. SoFi …

The gratuity platform for restaurants, eTip Inc., said it has integrated with the Toast Partner Ecosystem, allowing restaurants using Toast’s POS system to automate tip calculations and send tip sums directly to workers’ bank accounts. With the integration, eTip says it has widened its presence in the restaurant business with …

Citigroup Inc.’s U.S. consumer-cards business says it will acquire card-marketing specialist Kard Financial Inc., while card issuer processor platform Lithic pairs with Monavate and online-gaming specialist Grandstand Ltd. issues a high-limit debit card. Citi, which has not disclosed terms of its deal, says New York City-based Kard provides personalized rewards …

Account-to-account payments are about to meet the agentic-commerce age with a new partnership between Sionic, a bank-to-bank payments provider, and Agentix, an agentic-commerce technology firm. In the deal, Atlanta-based Sionic will supply an artificial-intelligence shopping agent with its Bank Perks to enable payment directly from a user’s bank account. Bank …

Buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB said it completed an integration with J.P. Morgan Payments that enables merchants on the processor’s Commerce Platform to offer Klarna’s BNPL options at checkout with no integration on the merchant’s end. Fraud prevention services firm Signifyd said e-commerce fraud increased 33% this year over last in its …

More evidence has emerged that consumers are wholeheartedly embracing payment apps and digital wallets as these two payment methods are used by most consumers, finds the WSFS Bank 2026 Money Trends Survey. Among the 1,022 respondents, 73% regularly use a payment app in 2026, up from 67% in 2023, and …