E-Commerce

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 …

Truist, the banking arm of Truist Financial Corp., is adding more merchant-services capabilities to its inventory with the addition of broader access to Clover point-of-sale devices and Paze, an online checkout service. Both are in addition to a new digital merchant-onboarding process. Charlotte, N.C.-based Truist says it is raising its …

American Express Co. announced expansions of its agreements with the National Basketball Association and the Women’s National Basketball Association. The deals include a role for AmEx as Presenting Partner of NBA Houses, an initiative that features viewing parties and meetings with NBA players. Celerant Technology, a developer of software for retail …

With the holiday shopping season underway, consumers are likely reviewing their lists with a keen eye on their budgets, making buy now, pay later and gift cards options a consideration for many, suggests the 2026 Consumer Holiday Spending Study issued by the Electronic Transactions Association and TSG, a payments-research organization. …

Fintech Panacea Financial Holdings Inc. released PlexPay, its healthcare payment platform that integrates merchant processing, point-of-sale and digital payments, patient financing, and automated payment posting. Panacea said as of Sept. 30, its platform had approximately $7 billion in annual transaction volume, a 100% year-over-year increase. Beauty and wellness booking technology Fresha announced …

With 5 million passkeys in use worldwide, as of May according to the FIDO Alliance, the authentication technology is gaining ground over traditional usernames and passwords. Merchant services company Checkout.com is the latest to adopt the technology with its use the Visa Payment Passkey. A passkey consists of a key pair that …

Zip Co Ltd., a provider of point-of-sale credit programs, said it has expanded a partnership with flight-booking platform Alternative Airlines to include a new car-rental program the platform is offering. SeatGeek, operator of an online marketplace for event tickets, announced a multi-year renewal of its contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers …

Point-of-sale equipment and services provider NCR Voyix Corp. has lined up Bruster’s Real Ice Cream with a multiyear deal that will see NCR Voyix provide Aloha Next POS devices and Voyix Kitchen technology on nearly 700 devices in 230 stores. Founded in 1989, Bruster’s has corporate and franchise locations; both …

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,” …