French fintech Mirakl SAS has partnered with J.P. Morgan Payments to provide infrastructure for the payments provider’s agentic-commerce offering. The partnership will enable merchants to facilitate agentic commerce without having to build and manage complex integrations and protocols. Mirakl will integrate J.P. Morgan Payments technology into its Nexus agentic-commerce service, which …
Read More »UATP Teams With Hands In on a Split Funding Service for Travel
Travelers buying airfare direct from an airline have a new payment option that could ease some of the issues around funding that travel. UATP, a global payment network owned and operated by airlines, is working with Hands In, a specialist in split-payment enablement, to allow airlines to activate Hands In’s …
Read More »FIS Doubles Down on Issuing While Riding an AI Wave
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 …
Read More »TNS Launches Smart Routing Technology
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, …
Read More »Can/Am’s Teller Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/17/26
Can/Am Technologies Inc. has introduced Teller Payments, aimed at helping state, local, and education agencies process payments within Can/Am’s Teller Government Cashiering system. The processor Fiserv Inc. is supporting the service through its independent software vendor partner program. Metropolitan Commercial Bank, based in New York City, is one of the first …
Read More »How Chip Cards Have Been Deployed to Battle Fraud in State EBT Programs
Chip cards are coming to state benefit programs, with the latest development emerging from Alabama. The state’s Department of Human Resources is mailing electronic benefit cards embedded with chips as a means to combat fraud, according to an announcement early Friday from the chip card supplier, Conduent Inc. The chip …
Read More »Illinois Merchants Score a Big Win in Their Battle for Interchange Relief
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, …
Read More »Fiserv Caps a Sub-Par Year With a Disappointing Fourth Quarter
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 …
Read More »Bolt’s Embedded Investing and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/4/26
Bolt Financial Inc., whose app offers checkout, identity, and payments capabilities, announced it is adding embedded investing capability through a deal with Atomic, an investing-as-a-service platform. Corpay Inc. said it will sell its PayByPhone mobile parking payments platform to Lightyear Capital in a deal expected to close in the second quarter. …
Read More »Visa Says It’s Positioning Itself to Be a ‘Hyperscaler’ in Payments
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% …
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