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Just 23% Trust AI: Visa and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/9/26
Some 72% of U.S. consumers have used an AI assistant for shopping, but just 23% trust AI to manage payments, according to the Visa Trust Index for agentic commerce. The survey took place May 26-28 among a sample of 2,065 consumers, though the sample for the payment transaction question was 1,028 to …
Read More »Eye on Ticketing: Six Flags Picks Flex Pay’s BNPL; Visa Canada Renews Film Festival Deal
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is adding the Flex Pay buy now, pay later payment method from Upgrade Inc. to enable guests to make installment payments for season passes and other products. In related news, Visa Canada renewed its partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival, noting that 2027 will be …
Read More »Circle Acquires Tazapay; Visa’s Stablecoin Lending Venture
The stablecoin-payments platform Circle Internet Group Inc. said early Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Tazapay, a business-to-business cross-border payments technology developer based in Singapore and serving financial institutions and payment-service providers. Tazapay processes more than $25 billion in payment volume annually, of which approximately 60% includes stablecoins. The parties …
Read More »AEON’s Agentic Checkout Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/8/26
AEON, a settlement platform for online payments, launched Agentic Checkout, which enables AI agents to shop, check out, and pay on e-commerce sites such as Shopify and Amazon. Buy now, pay later and payments specialist Klarna AB said its payment method is an option on StockX, a marketplace for apparel and cultural …
Read More »FIS Launches Its Embedded Banking Platform To Meet Bank Demand
As embedded services take on added importance in payments and banking, financial institutions are adding the products at a faster clip, presenting payments processors with new business opportunities. On Thursday, the processor FIS launched FIS Embedded Banking Platform, which it says is its first embedded-finance platform designed for banks. With …
Read More »COMMENTARY: Stablecoins Are Moving From Crypto Debate to Payments Use Case
For decades, payments progress has been measured by how much friction disappears between initiation and transaction. Checks and cash gave way to credit cards. Credit cards gave way to digital wallets. And now, stablecoins are emerging as a new payments rail, with the potential to change how businesses move and …
Read More »Shopline’s Splitit Integration and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/3/26
Shopline, a commerce platform, has agreed to integrate card-linked installment payments capability from Splitit. Finzly, a money-movement platform operating on ACH and real-time rails, has launched Assure, a service intended to protect banks against attacks by rogue AI agents. The new service is part of Finzly’s Agentic Galaxy set of AI …
Read More »Eye on Block: Cash App Score Gains Visibility; Bakery Consolidates Under Square
Block Inc. will make its proprietary Cash App Score available to external lenders for the first time, while its Square acquiring unit lines up another retailer for its suite of point-of-sale services and hardware. A scoring model once only used internally by Block for its set of lending products now …
Read More »OpenPayd Prepares for a U.S. Launch As Big Banks Plan for a Dollar Stablecoin
OpenPayd, a London-based provider of open-banking and stablecoin services, announced an expansion into the U.S. market, having acquired 43 state money-transfer licenses. Globally, the company processes more than $300 billion in volume yearly for more than 1,200 businesses. The announcement comes following OpenPayd’s integration this month of MSB USA Inc., …
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