Digital Currency

Klarna Group plc said it will support the AI-based Agent Payments Protocol from Google Inc. The technology allows shopping agents to find and buy products according to criteria set by consumers. Xplor Pay announced a partnership with Gatemaster Technology, a point-of-sale and ticketing software provider, that sees Gatemaster customers gain access to …

Cryptocurrency picked up more momentum in payments Thursday as C1 Fund Inc. bought shares in Ripple Inc. C1, which focuses on digital assets and blockchain technology, did not announce the extent of the investment or other financial terms. Ripple is well-known in payments for its XRP ledger, a decentralized blockchain …

Six months after fully revising its point-of-sale app and adding modes to enable merchants to tailor it to their needs, the acquirer is out now with what it says is its largest update to its food and beverage platform. Square, a unit of Block Inc., also released updates to Square …

Global Payments Inc. announced a version of its Genius point-of-sale payments platform is available for colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada, including campus dining. The U.S. Faster Payments Council will work with the Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc., a developer of standards for the U.S. financial industry, to speed development …

Loan payouts are picking up steam as a use case for instant payments, joining such applications as earned wage access, wallet funding, marketplace/gaming, and peer-to-peer payments, according to the 2025 U.S. Instant Payments Adopting Quantitative Study from the U.S. Faster Payments Council. Respondents to the study serve more than 90% of U.S. …

Instant Financial USA Inc., a platform that digitizes payments for hourly workers, said it has been chosen by the Munson Group to launch digital tips and paycards for workers at Munson’s 33 Sonic Drive-In and Buffalo Wild Wings locations. Theatre Capital announced it has acquired AllPaid Inc., a payments platform serving …

The credit card issuer Merrick Bank has re-launched its Ollo credit card with a refreshed design and new technology. The card was first issued in 2017 as a product for U.S. consumers facing challenges in obtaining a credit card. Valor PayTech, a 5-year-old provider of point-of-sale technology for merchants, announced it has …

Visa Inc. announced early Tuesday it will launch a cross-border payments service that will rely on stablecoins to fund transfers. The service, meant ultimately as an improvement on existing transfers that require users to commit capital in advance, will run on the payments company’s Visa Direct real-time payments rails. It …

Nuvei Corp. launched its artificial intelligence-enabled Integration Agent. The tool could help merchants and Nuvei’s partners onboard within hours instead of weeks, Nuvei said. Bank of America Corp. announced its AI-based Ask Global Payments Solutions service, which the banking giant says can answer questions within seconds for its 40,000 business clients globally. …

Embedded payments and embedded finance have taken on an almost viral adoption within the payments industry, and the latest to tweak their services is processor Worldpay Inc. with its new Embedded Finance Engine. In related news, Fiserv Inc. says it will acquire StoneCastle Cash Management in a bid to better …