Saturday , September 12, 2026

Digital Currency

EVS Launches AssureACH and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/27/26

Electronic Verification Systems launched AssureACH, a service to prevent fraud at the point of capture. Among its features are real-time demand deposit account and routing number validation. MiCamp Solutions has agreed to serve as an independent sales organization representing Vibe Retail, a developer of point-of-sale technology aimed at independent merchants. The Electronic Transactions …

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Western Union’s Core Business Struggles, but Digital Initiatives Grow

Money-transfer provider The Western Union Co. is facing what it calls “headwinds” in its Americas consumer retail business, but the company is looking for growth in its new stablecoin and other digital operations. Total first-quarter revenue of $983 million was flat compared with a year earlier, Denver-based Western Union reported …

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Maple’s Voice-Ordering Comes to Quantic and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/24/26

Voice-ordering specialist Maple Inc. said it is working with Quantic POS, a cloud-based point-of-sale system provider, to make Maple’s artificial intelligence voice-ordering platform available to Quantic merchants. Coastal Pay Inc. released its updated payment gateway that offers easier surcharging and dual pricing compatibility. Buy now, pay later provider Sunbit said it is now available on …

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Block Expands Uber Deals and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/22/26

Block Inc. said it will work with Uber Technologies Inc. to extend Square’s existing Uber Eats integration to worldwide markets and offer Cash App Pay within Uber and Uber Eats in the U.S. market. Paysafe Ltd. launched its PaysafeWallet, which features a debit card as well as a personal payment account supporting …

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JetBlue Vacations’ BNPL Pick and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/21/26

JetBlue Vacations said it will work with Flex Pay, a buy now, pay later platform, to offer monthly payment options to customers planning flight-and-hotel vacation packages. JetBlue Vacations is a unit of JetBlue Airways Corp. SpotOn Transact LLC said four hospitality operators were among new clients signed in the first quarter for …

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Repay’s Latest Proposal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/20/26

Processor Repay Holdings Corp. said it has received an unsolicited, non-binding offer from Forager Capital Management LLC to buy Repay’s outstanding equity for $4.80 per share in cash. The share price stood at $4.11 at market close on Friday. The company said it will review the offer. The processor Nayax Ltd. said it will …

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Bybit Card Reaches 3 Million Users and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/17/26

The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit announced its Mastercard-branded Bybit Card has reached 3 million users a little more than three years after its introduction. The card enables users to spend both fiat and digital currencies. The Cost of Bills Index from bill-payment platform doxo indicates a wide gulf between the most and least expensive states, …

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Early Warning’s Certos Launches and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/16/26

Early Warning Services LLC, provider of Zelle and Paze, launched Certos, a suite of products to help financial institutions counter fraud and expand financial access in the U.S. banking system. Digital-currency platform Binance has introduced Binance Chat, a feature in its app that enables cryptocurrency transfers, messaging, and other functions. MegPrime, a …

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76% of U.S. Companies Were Subjected to Fraud in 2025

It’s a sobering condition of today’s payments industry that fraud is a persistent, pervasive, and unwelcome counterpart to legitimate transaction activity. Testifying to that is that 76% of U.S. organizations experienced attempted or actual fraud in 2025, says the Association for Financial Professionals’ 2026 edition of its Payments Fraud and …

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InvoiceCloud Taps AI for Billing and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/15/26

Bill-payment platform InvoiceCloud introduced its Billing Experience, which it says relies on AI throughout billing and payments operations. The peer-to-peer payments service Zelle named 10 MBA students as recipients of the Zelle Community Development & Entrepreneurship Scholarship, which was open to MBA students at five historically Black colleges and universities. PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Venmo P2P payments …

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