Digital Currency

How close are consumers to everyday use of cryptocurrency, particularly as the holidays loom? Much depends on merchant acceptance and consumer sentiment, but on the consumer side of the equation, 34% of U.S. consumers are more likely than not to use crypto for holiday shopping, according to survey results released …

Priority Commerce said it will provide ticket payment processing for the Cleveland Browns National Football League team. Global Payments Inc. said it expanded its Adaptive Authentication Platform to include the Visa Intelligent Data Exchange API. This technology can help improve authorization rates, reduce customer challenges, and aid efficiency. Owlting Group, …

Circle Internet Group Inc. early Wednesday offered indications that digital money—specifically, stablecoins—is now moving steadily into mainstream finance. With partner companies, “we’re building the financial and economic infrastructure for the Internet, and upgrading the system for a world where people, businesses, and AI agents all transact onchain,” noted cofounder and …

Verifone announced it has enabled Featurespace across its gateways. The technology, offered by Visa, checks individual payments for fraud in real time. Verifone’s service assesses more than 1,800 transaction attributes in real time for each payment. Chargeback management platform Justt updated its platform with Justt Flows, an automation engine for alerts …

One of the biggest trends in payments these days is agentic commerce, and the major card networks are making sure they can master the trend on behalf of banks and merchants. The payoff can be substantial. “AI is changing how commerce happens, and that leads to more transactions for Mastercard,” …

Chip cards for recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program may be on the horizon because the Food and Nutrition Administration of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has issued a proposed rule that all states adopt the technology as one way to count fraud. Currently, just eight states issue chip …

PayPal Holdings Inc. reported a 2% rise year-over-year in third-quarter net revenue, to $8.58 billion, on a 6% increase in total payment volume, to $487.1 billion. Payment transactions rose 7% to 6.796 billion, while active accounts, at 440 million, were virtually flat, rising 0.6%. GAAP net income fell 14%, to $1.07 …

PAX Technology Inc. said it will work with engineering firm Omni Integration Inc. to launch PAX Edge, payment software designed to work with a range of gateway and backend environments, though not tied to a single processor. Cognizant announced it has a five-year agreement to install artificial intelligence technology for point-of-sale terminal …

KORT Payments said it will acquire AptPay Inc. to aid its expansion across North America. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Both companies are based in Canada. Third-quarter spending on debit cards tracked in the Q3 2026 SoFi Tech Solutions Debit Spend Index increased 7.4% and transactions increased 5.9% …