Digital Currency

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 …

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 …

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 …

SpotOn Transact LLC, a specialist in hospitality payments, launched a service called Rapid Fund, which makes card deposits available within 30 minutes of batching out. It is also taking on a partnership with embedded-finance platform Parafin to operate SpotOn Capital. Both efforts are intended to aid restaurants looking to manage …

PayPal Holdings Inc. said its Payment Links are now available for Canva, a platform that enables users to sell videos, social posts, and presentations. Payment Links, which PayPal launched in September, allow users to receive money via text, email, or social media. Adyen NV introduced Intelligent Money Movement, which it says is …

PAR Technology Corp., a provider of point-of-sale technology for multi-unit restaurants and stores, has launched PAR Intelligence, an AI technology aimed at identifying and acting on opportunities to maximize profit. Yuno Technologies released Payments Concierge, an agentic AI service aimed at monitoring merchants’ payment technology to identify issues affecting cost and …

As cryptocurrencies edge ever closer to the payments mainstream, they are fitting themselves into day-to-day usage in a bid to win user loyalty. One such application is money transfers, a market that has now attracted the world’s second largest crypto exchange by volume. The Bybit exchange, based since 2022 in …

Fraud-detection service Sift said its Sift Global Network saw transaction volume increase 18% in 2025, though payment fraud attempt rates held at about 3.25%, despite new fraud opportunities arising from new payment methods emerging in the market. The company credits better transaction monitoring and controls. The digital financial-services provider SoFi Technologies Inc. has launched SoFi …

A fintech startup called CARD91 launched VerifyIQ, an AI-based identity-verification tool for card issuance, account opening, and other applications. BitRail LLC, a provider of digital wallets and payment technology, said it has added new services in partnership with the processor PaymentLock Inc., including branded online checkout and pay-now buttons, a virtual terminal, …